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Levy will mean banks pay more for financial crisis

Monday February 08 2010

G7 finance ministers have moved closer to agreeing that banks should pay for more of the cost of the financial crisis to ease the burden on taxpayers.

Poor standard of maths and science 'costs €8bn a year'

Monday February 08 2010

IRELAND could be an average of €8bn a year better off if today's 15-year-olds were world-class students of science and maths.

Ireland moves up road-safety league

Monday February 08 2010

IRELAND now ranks 10th in the table of safest roads worldwide.

BP sees ‘slow’ recovery as profit misses estimates

Tuesday February 02 2010

Oil firm BP said it expects the recovery from last year’s recession to be "slow and gradual" as fourth-quarter earnings missed analyst estimates.

Time to decide which quangos can make the cut

Sunday January 24 2010

IRELAND is said to have a special relationship with Newfoundland. Generations of Irish people migrated to the Canadian province to fish off its shores. Half of its population are said to descend from Irish settlers.

Brendan Keenan: Reality check must not be ignored

Brendan Keenan Sunday January 24 2010

SHORT of still being cut off by snow, one could hardly have failed to notice the air traffic controllers' stoppage. But it would have been easy to miss a smaller item which has a bearing upon it.

Government must stand up to unions' blackmail

Sunday January 24 2010

JACK O'Connor, the president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, could not have been clearer: he and his fellow trade union leaders are preparing for a lengthy and damaging war against the Government and the chances of economic recovery. O'Connor believes that he can force Brian Lenihan, the Minister for Finance, to abandon last December's Budget if the unions can convince Government that they "have the resolve and determination to conduct a campaign of industrial action and strikes on a sustained basis".

Poor infrastructure weakens broadband

Saturday January 23 2010

Ireland's broadband speeds remain "substantially below" the fastest speeds available to customers in other OECD countries, according to a report published by Forfas yesterday.

Banking inquiry: Burning questions and still little by way of answers on crisis

Thursday January 21 2010

Sean FitzPatrick's loans, the property bubble, Sean Quinn's stake in Anglo and the €440bn bank guarantee. With a banking inquiry on its way, Joe Brennan and Emmet Oliver pose the 10 queries that must be answered .

EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy

I've had a great run in politics -- now I want to do something else

Thursday January 21 2010

THIS time, it is goodbye. When the tortuous process of ratifying a new EU Commission is completed, commissioner Charlie McCreevy will turn his back on politics; even public statements.

UK begins its recovery as number of jobless falls to 1.6m

Thursday January 21 2010

BRITAIN'S unemployment fell much faster than expected, in another sign that the economy grew in the last three months of the year -- bringing an end to the worst recession on record.