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IBEC coy on amount state agencies pay for its services

Tuesday November 10 2009

THE Irish Business Employers Confederation (IBEC) last night refused to say how much state agencies are paying for the business lobby group's services.

Taxpayer pumping close to €1m into Ibec offers

Sunday November 08 2009

Employers group, the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (Ibec), is receiving hundreds of thousands of euro from the taxpayer each year.

Quinn wants banks to hand over their art collections

Sunday November 01 2009

Ireland's beggared banks may soon be loaning their Monets and Matisses out to the nation's art centres -- if Ruairi Quinn has his way.

Teaching graduates losing class battle

Tuesday October 27 2009

'GO forth and make a difference," a graduating class of new teachers was urged last Friday.

Protestant schools' row can unite the churches

Friday October 23 2009

WHEN the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, accused the Department of Education the other day of leading a "very determined and doctrinaire" attack on Protestant schools he could have as easily accused them of attacking denominational schools in general.

Labour's ex-leader in running for leading EU post

Thursday October 22 2009

Labour's Ruairi Quinn is in the reckoning to become Ireland's European Commissioner after being put forward by his party leader Eamon Gilmore.

Bishops to hand over schools

Monday October 19 2009

THE biggest shake-up in Irish education for decades is set to begin with historic talks on the transfer of some of the country's 3,000 Catholic primary schools to the State.

Government by Gilmore, Sinn Fein and Duffy's Circus

Eoghan Harris Sunday October 18 2009

Monday is the top night on television. But alas, The Apprentice on TV3 clashes with the news on RTE. And Brendan O'Connor's Apprentice Review on TV3 clashes with Pat Kenny's Frontline. But thanks to Sky we can record both.

Registration for third level costs more than most EU tuition fees

Tuesday October 13 2009

REGISTRATION fees charged by Irish colleges are higher than third-level tuition fees charged in most other EU countries.

Minister to pay for classroom laptops with building funds

Friday October 09 2009

MILLIONS of euro earmarked for school building this year is to be diverted to pay for long-overdue computers in schools.