EU drive to find youth a job or course

ONE-IN-FIVE young Irish people aged 15 to 25 years are not in work, education or training, the third highest proportion in the EU.

Countries are being urged to devise ways to help the more than 7.5 million unemployed youth in the EU to return to education or get into the labour force, using €30 billion of still unspent EU funds.

But Ireland will not be able to tap very much of the fund because it has been the most efficient in the EU, drawing down close to 95% of its share.