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French agree to replay in Tullamore after Irish war threat shifts goalposts

Saturday November 21 2009

0900hrs: Brian Cowen tears into the French at the European summit.

Budget day strike plan as first stoppage to save €100m

Friday November 20 2009

PUBLIC sector unions are considering holding a second national strike on the day of the Budget.

Mary refuses to play ball in face of some snide kicks

Friday November 20 2009

OH WOE is us. We can handle banjaxed banks, politicians' expenses outrages, a brutal Budget. Anything but this; the bitterest end to our riches-to-rags story.

'Blueprint for reform' aimed at staving off more action

Thursday November 19 2009

THE Government will recognise the €2.5bn contribution made by public sector workers -- through the pension levy, moratorium on recruitment and pay freeze -- to the exchequer in a bid to prevent further strikes.

Cowen keeps it in the FF family

Thursday November 19 2009

THE Taoiseach has appointed Maire Geoghegan-Quinn as Ireland's next Commissioner in Europe. If ratified, it will prove beyond all doubt, if proof were needed, that Mr Cowen and his Fianna Fail party are tribal to an extremely worrying degree.

FAS managers share in €24m pay bonanza

Tuesday November 17 2009

PAY rates for FAS managers have grown twice as fast as those of normal employees over the past decade, new figures reveal.

Unions under pressure to decide on further strike action

Monday November 16 2009

UNIONS will today consider a second day of national strikes across the public sector in protest at Government plans to impose a €1.3bn pay cut.

'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.