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Within days of being announced in the last week’s papers 40 youth training jobs offered by the two city family centres and FÁS have been snapped up, leading to calls from community leaders for similar initiatives for the hundreds of young Kilkenny people with few employment prospects who are still on the dole.

A unique partnership between FÁS and city housing communities, supported by Kilkenny County Council’s RAPID programme, is to create a pilot employment training scheme to take 40 young men off the dole.