A 19-year-old convicted rapist who is wanted by the PSNI has appeared in court in Dublin.

Edward Connors of  Labre Park, Kylemore Road in Ballyfermot has been charged with failing to notify Gardaí of his home address and date of birth between July 14th and 21st this year.

Police in the North have been hunting for the teenager for breaching one of the conditions of his probation following his early release from an 8-year sentence for rape.

He has been remanded in custody but his solicitor told the court he will apply for bail next week.

Connors was 15 when he twice raped US tourist Winnie Li in the Colin Glen Forest Park in west Belfast in April 2008.

He was jailed the following year.

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) has launched the first sale of long-term Irish government bonds in nearly 2 years.

The bonds are on offer for terms of up to 8 years.

Officials have also launched a Bond Switch.

This offers investors with bonds due to mature over the next 2 years the option of extending their terms.

Eoin Callan is a senior dealer at Danske Bank.

He says today marks a hugely positive development.

“It’s been almost 4 years since Ireland has started taking steps to address its economic imbalances” he said.

“This is the first sign that perhaps the market is opening up for Ireland, that the markets are buying very much into the Irish progress – and they believe that Ireland very much can return to the markets with a long-term bond issue; that Ireland can avoid a second bailout through the EFSF or the ESM and that Ireland’s progress under the Troika adjustment programme will be successful ultimately” he said.

More than 900 jobs in start-up companies have been announced.

53 companies supported by Enterprise Ireland say they will create the jobs over 3 years.

Minister Richard Bruton made the announcement at a new company Connectedtrips which is a global travel website.

Last year 42 different start-up companies supported by Enterprise Ireland predicted they would create 755 jobs over 3 years.

The announcement today relates to companies to which support has been provided in the first 6 months of 2012 under the Enterprise Ireland High Potential Start-Ups Programme.

The companies come from a wide range of sectors including financial services, ICT, digital games, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Alan Wyley founded one of the companies – connectedtrips.com – a global travel website that plans to increase from 5 to 22 workers.

“The biggest challenge we have is around finding good developers  – particularly we’re looking for ruby on rails developers – and that’s a big challenge right now” he said.

“There’s just a shortage world-wide, there’s a  shortage in Dublin, there’s a  shortage in Silicon Valley, actually”.

“So that’s our biggest challenge”.

“Broadband’s not an issue – the other roles (of) marketing and so on our fine to fill, but it’s really the technical roles are the biggest challenge right now” he added.

HSE ideas on how to save money have been met with a furious response from one union.

It follows reports that management had come up with options including the possibility of lengthening the working week by 2 hours and ending the use of flexitime.

Another proposal related to changes in overtime payment arrangements.

But union SIPTU says all elements of pay are protected by the Croke Park Agreement and they will not go outside its terms.

Health Division Organiser Paul Bell insists employment restrictions in the health sector are driving up the overtime bill.

“There’s a misnomer about overtime – a lot of the excessive overtime bill and agency bill is being created by the insistence of the Minister for Health and the HSE that the moratorium – or the recruitment embargo – stay in place” he said.

“That’s inefficient, and it’s absolutely detrimental to the service – and that’s what’s costing a lot of money” he added.

More than 82,000 people aged under 25 were unemployed here in April last year.

Limerick City and Donegal had the highest levels of youth unemployment with rates of 50 and 49% respectively.

That is just one of the findings from the latest publication on the 2011 Census.

Newstalk’s Jack Quann has more.