THE 50th IMI National Management Conference takes place on April 6 and 7 and will feature sessions with senior business figures, allowing debate between delegates and speakers.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was upbeat when he addressed the IMI conference yesterday in Druids Glen.

AN internal row has again broken out between Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats over the second terminal at Dublin Airport.

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Martin Cullen publicly rebuked Dr Phil Nolan of eircom at the IMI conference in Druids Glen, Co Wicklow, yesterday.

THE importance of social partnership to the Irish economy and a successful outcome to the Sustaining Progress agreement were stressed yesterday by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

INTEREST rates in Europe and the United States are set to rise before the end of the summer, an economist with the US Conference Board predicted yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday warned that a failure to agree the next round of Sustaining Progress pay talks could badly damage the prospects of the entire country.

THE Common Agricultural Policy should be scrapped, according to an award-winning author on globalisation.

THE issue of inflation has taken a distinctively populist tone in recent times with everybody now apparently seeking to become the champion of the beleaguered consumer.

THE Taoiseach would not state yesterday whether he backs the plan to break up Aer Rianta into three independent State-owned companies, despite calls from several groups for him to make a public statement.