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THE GOVERNMENT will use its presidency of the European Union next year to advance plans for a “youth guarantee” scheme that would ensure young people who are out of work will automatically be directed into employment, education or training.

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has said she will use the presidency, from January next year, to help deliver proposals for the new scheme, which would be targeted at any under-25s who are out of work.

She was unable to say when the scheme could be delivered or how much it would cost, but she expressed confidence that money could be sourced from the European Social Fund.

Under the plans, which are still being drawn up at European level, governments would initially fund training, further education or apprenticeships for any young person who is out of work for four months or more.

As the job-seeker then gains more experience in the workplace, the employer would begin to pay.

Brilliant. What could possibly go wrong?

Burton says Ireland’s EU presidency will help jobless youth (Carl O’Brien, Irish Times)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

RETAILER GAME has closed all of its stores in the State with the loss of 121 jobs after the group went into administration. Administrators appointed yesterday also closed most of its stores in Northern Ireland, cutting 110 jobs.

The Game Group became the latest retailer to go into administration, after the company last week suspended its listing on the London Stock Exchange and said it was seeking the protection of the courts.

Only five outlets in Ireland will survive the cull – all in the North.

Game Closes All Shops In Republic (Irish Times)

The Death Of The High Street Game Retailer (IGN)

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Kevin Whitty writes:

I met a lad in Sydney that had this job. His [work entailed] going out every night to different bars and clubs armed with a Jameson credit card and purchace rounds of Jameson, ginger ale and a slice lime for anybody that wanted one. Naturally he became my best friend


The Jameson Graduate Programme (The Vital Ingredient)