FG Plans will provide opportunities at home for the 100,000 likely to emigrate in next 2 years Fine Gael’s 5 Point Plan to Get Ireland Working contains a series [...]
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Keeping Talent at Home: Tackling the Scourge of Forced Emigration
9. 2. 2011
FG sets out extensive plan to tackle jobs crisis & rebuild economy
3. 2. 2011
Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny has today (Thursday) launched Working for Our Future, the Party’s plans to create tens of thousands of new jobs over five years. The plan was [...]
IBM Visit
26. 10. 2010
Image via Wikipedia Last Friday I had the opportunity to visit the IBM Technology Campus in Mulhuddart, and in particular their Innovation Centre. It was an extremely useful visit, and [...]
Devastating news as IBM cuts 190 jobs in Blanchardstown and transfers posts to China
20. 10. 2010
Image via CrunchBase The announcement this afternoon (Wednesday) that 190 ‘server manufacturers’ are to be made redundant at IBM in Blanchardstown is devastating news for an area already reeling from [...]
The truth about broadband: Ireland lags behind almost every other country
19. 10. 2010
Ireland ranked dead last in Europe on broadband speed – OECD Successive reports from the OECD and the National Competitiveness Council have exposed the truth about broadband in Ireland [...]
FG rejects calls for tax on text messages
7. 10. 2010
Image by Kurt Koller via Flickr ‘Arbitrary regressive stealth tax’ makes no sense, sets precedent for further stealth taxes Fine Gael Communications Spokesperson, Leo Varadkar TD, has rejected calls [...]
High Unemployment in Dublin 15 must be No.1 Concern
6. 10. 2010
The latest Live Register figures show that over the past three years the number of people signing on at the Blanchardstown Social Welfare Office has increased by a massive 3,747 [...]
Daft FF/Green policies exposed: Govt forced to hike welfare to cover Govt introduced levy
5. 10. 2010
Image via Wikipedia PSO levy should be postponed pending review The daft policies being pursued by Fianna Fáil and the Greens were exposed today (Tuesday) when it emerged that [...]
Fianna Fáil’s ‘PR joke’ is simply repackaged jobs plan along with one more quango
28. 9. 2010
Image by kmcgee01 via Flickr Farce as FF Govt claim 570,000 jobs will be created in 5 years The so-called jobs launch today (Tuesday) by Fianna Fáil is a [...]
IDA chief says energy prices too high, contradicts Eamon Ryan
23. 9. 2010
Image via Wikipedia Eamon Ryan’s fantasies driving up electricity prices, destroying jobs The Head of the IDA, Barry O’Leary, said on radio today (Thursday) that Irish energy prices are [...]