When is an employee not just an employee?

THERE is no question that books will eventually be bought almost exclusively online or that we are living through the end of an era for the printed book.

Intrinsic share values of state companies have been systematically pillaged by management and employees.

THE national preoccupation of living life through the rearview mirror meant that Peter Nyberg’s historic analysis of our economic crisis took precedence over Colm McCarthy’s privatisation prescriptions for state companies.

Policy context of asset sales

FULL exploitation of Ireland’s ocean energy has the potential to create 70,000 jobs and add up to €120 billion to the wealth of the economy, according to Bord Gáis Éireann CEO John Mullins.

IN HIS dying days as Taoiseach Brian Cowen raised the prospect of 7,0000 new green-based jobs sprouting up in the IFSC within five years.

BORD Gáis Energy (BGE) is to invest up to €2 million in the Irish tidal renewable energy company, OpenHydro, to develop a largescale tidal farm off the coast.

FORMER Bord Gáis Éireann (BGE) chief executive Gerry Walsh has settled on undisclosed terms his High Court action in which he claimed entitlement to an additional €2 million sum from the company arising from a letter signed by former BGE chairman Michael Conlon.

The Corrib Gas Partners announced today that they plan to resume the peat haulage operation next week.

Orlando Bloom’s former management company is suing the actor for allegedly failing to pay nearly £370,000 (€544.4m) in commission.

THE natural gas network in the North is to be hugely extended, it was announced yesterday.

THE Scottish company set to develop the Seven Heads gas field off the coast of Kinsale has been given a boost by further delays in the Corrib gas development off Mayo due to a combination of planning hold-ups and other issues.