11 Oct 2008 at 7:58am Northern Ireland are in Slovenia for tonight's must-win World Cup qualifier (1945). With just one point from two games, they need a result to kick-start their campaign. Striker David Healy will be hoping to add to his thirteen goals in his country's ...
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11 Oct 2008 at 7:43am Seven people have been rescued from a fire at a block of flats in Cork city. The blaze broke out on the ground floor of the building on Shandon Street at around 4.30am this morning. Five units of the fire brigade were called in, and used ladders to ...
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7 Oct 2008 at 8:09am Aer Lingus Group PLC is planning up to 1,500 job cuts, Ireland's SIPTU trade union said Tuesday. At a meeting on Monday, the airline told the union that the board had approved a 74 million euro ($101 million) cost-savings plan, said SIPTU spokeswoman ...
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7 Oct 2008 at 6:36am LONDON (AP) _ Aer Lingus Group PLC is planning up to 1,500 job cuts, Ireland's SIPTU trade union said Tuesday. At a meeting on Monday, the airline told the union that the board had approved a 74 million euro ($101 million) cost-savings plan, said ...
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6 Oct 2008 at 8:35pm The Irish airline Aer Lingus was last night facing the threat of strike action after it announced swingeing job cuts and the outsourcing of all ground staff at Dublin airport as part of a ?74m (£57m) cost-saving programme. Up to 1,500 jobs will be ...
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6 Oct 2008 at 5:50pm UNIONS at Aer Lingus have just six weeks to come up with ?50 million in cost savings or face more than 1,500 of their members losing their jobs. Aer Lingus last night outlined what unions described as ?draconian and severe? cost cuts which will ...
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5 Oct 2008 at 7:53pm The plan, which includes the outsourcing of all ground operations, was announced in a meeting with union representatives at Dublin Airport this afternoon. The company's bases at Shannon and Heathrow will be closed, staff may be redeployed to Dublin ...
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