FIGURES from the IDA show Ireland continued to attract high-quality investments in 2007, creating 9,200 jobs last year, says Ronnie O’Toole, chief economist at National Irish Bank.

US financial-services companies plan to transfer 500,000 jobs out of the country, but Ireland is placed only ninth in a list of the top ten relocation countries.

A survey says the text message boom is spreading to the over 35s.