€250,000 set aside to re-train TalkTalk workers

A state-funded enterprise group is to invest €250,000 in re-training the former workers at TalkTalk in Waterford.

Skillnets is to train more than 100 of the workers made redundant this autumn. They are to begin new training programmes this morning.

The training is in courses identified by local enterprise groups and designed to satisfy industry-specific needs.

Senior programme manager with Skillnets Carl Blake said the programmes would provide "the skills that are necessary to fill the jobs that are currently available", including in a number of local companies with vacancies in Clonmel, Kilkenny and Cork.