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Contractors passed more drivers than RSA

PEOPLE were more likely to pass their driving test in centres operated by contract staff, as opposed to centres operated by the Road Safety Authority (RSA), according to a report by the public funds watchdog.

 

Up to 250 staff at Boston Scientific set to lose their jobs

UP to 250 staff at Boston Scientific's plants in Galway and Cork are set to lose their jobs over the coming weeks.

 




Cowen: NAMA will free up lending

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has insisted that banks will start to lend more as a result of NAMA, despite warnings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the agency would not result in the freeing up of credit.

 




Comrades bid MacGiolla farewell

FORMER Workers' Party leader Tomás MacGiolla was laid to rest in Dublin yesterday with an uilleann pipes lament and praise for his lifelong commitment to the unity of "Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter".

 




How inert Enda failed to bank on his own lovely Lee

BEEN there, done that, thought I should have been Taoiseach.

 




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