THE 106 workers at Longford cable company B3 Solutions are to lose their jobs after attempts to find a new buyer for the operation failed.

A US global financial security firm is to create 117 jobs in the Shannon Free Zone over the next three months.

THE 104 staff of a copper-cable manufacturer will know within the next few hours whether or not they are to lose their jobs due to the company’s closure.

Union chiefs warned today there was only 24 hours to save a cabling business employing 104 people in the midlands.

IRELAND suffered the third-biggest drop in construction output in Europe over the past 12 months, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office.