Early school-leavers three times more likely to end up unemployed, figures show

Early school-leavers are three times more likely to end up unemployed than other young people who remain in education.

That's according to latest figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), which showed that in the second quarter of this year, one quarter of those aged between 18 and 24 who left school early were unemployed compared to just 8% of those who stayed on in education.