Am interested in doing an online course but funds are a bit low at the moment. Can anyone tell me where I could do one for low cost or free. Looking for something preferably in the area of IT and computers.

Hi Martina, see this article about a new introduction of free online learning in Ireland - http://www.findacourse.ie/news/free-online-courses/ - There are also a lot of other options. If you search online in Google for free tutorials in the areas of study you are interested in you will find many options. If you are looking for certification though, options are a bit more limited.

www.alison.com is a good resource, they have lots of different types of courses, I'm doing a free online yoga course on it at the moment.

If its web design and development you're interested in you could try http://www.w3schools.com they have quite a few free lessons in the basics, you can get certs as well but those cost roughly 100 dollars each (for the ones I did).

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ is another good option, they have some free options on there, not sure if theres any in the line of computer training though..