Praise for making redundancy ‘last option’

IRELAND’S business leaders were last night praised for making redundancy their last option when facing up to the difficulties of the current recession.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen told the annual dinner of Cork Chamber that he is proud of the way the country is facing up to the current crisis.

“I must sincerely congratulate the Irish business community and indeed the Cork business community who have, in the face of such adversity never looked upon redundancy as the first option but as the last option.