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Top ranked civil servants vote for strikes to keep pay
Tuesday November 17 2009
THE country's top-ranking civil servants, who earn up to €100,000 a year, last night voted for strike action over Government plans to cut their wages.
Schools 'just playing catch-up' with laptops
Tuesday November 17 2009
EDUCATION Minister Batt O'Keeffe has admitted the €150m investment in school laptops announced yesterday is simply playing 'catch-up' with other countries which have 'leapfrogged' us in investment.
Gold star for Batt until his Boss-like blunder
Tuesday November 17 2009
THE Taoiseach may have had a big bit of good news to impart to the nation when he arrived at St Joseph's school in Terenure yesterday morning, but he still didn't look too delighted when he turned a corner into a narrow corridor to find a sizeable mob of na buachailli agus cailini dana of the press lying in wait.
'Genda' curtain-raiser lifts gloom of Bundoran to give Brian a boost
Monday November 16 2009
HURLEYS, dragons and even TV's ubiquitous 'X-Factor' and the 'Jedward' twins reared their heads in the annual weekend get- together of the youth wing of Fianna Fail.
MANIFESTO FOR PROGRESS HOW: WE CAN GET OUT OF THE MORASS
Sunday November 15 2009
- Cut public sector pay by 5-7 per cent
My €80,000 bonus went to charity, says Drumm
Sunday November 15 2009
HSE Chief Executive Professor Brendan Drumm gave away his controversial 2006 bonus of €80,000 to worthy causes and will also donate his 2007 bonus of €70,000 if and when he draws down the money.
Unions can join fight to save economy, or kill it
Sunday November 15 2009
On November 24, the trade union movement will deliver its depressingly predictable response to economic crisis when its members try to shut down the country. Its objective is as simple as it is misplaced -- to stop the reforms and spending cuts that are essential if this country is to have any prospect of recovering from recession. If the unions succeed, we all fail.
800,000 pupils face disruption when teachers walk out
Saturday November 14 2009
TEACHERS will be hit in the pocket to the tune of €10.3m after they voted in favour of industrial action.
Rural schools safe from closure threat -- for now
Thursday November 12 2009
THE future of small rural schools is up for discussion, but none is facing an immediate threat of closure, Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe said yesterday.
Teachers close book on school swap plan
Tuesday November 10 2009
EFFORTS at redeployment in the public service can take on the air of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object.
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