IF tights are your security blanket and tent-like maxis your wardrobe saviour, it’s high time to stop and embrace the summer.

Yesterday’s disclosure that the Teagasc Centre at Oak Park, Carlow, is to carry out field trials on a genetically modified potato that would improve resistance to blight, is viewed locally as welcome news for a county which itself has been ‘blighted’ by job losses in recent years.

The main Irish arm of consumer products group Procter & Gamble swung back into profit last year after revenues increased by 69% to €90.3m.

BRAUN has confirmed it is to make 160 of its 260 staff in Carlow redundant with a further 100 to be transferred to Newbridge.

A total of 160 jobs were axed today at a manufacturing plant in Carlow.

IRELAND is topping electrical goods recycling leagues, with Irish people on average recycling twice as much as that set as its target by the European Union according to the European Recycling Platform.

WATERFORD and the south-east may be losing jobs at present but the IDA says it remains active in promoting the region.

THERE were heavy job losses in Munster yesterday with more than 290 jobs axed in Cork and Waterford. DDC Ireland announced operations will stop at its Cork facility by end of the year with the loss of 71 jobs.

The electronics manufacturer Braun is to lay off more than 150 workers at its plant in Carlow.

The electrical goods manufacture Braun is planning to lay off 42 workers at its plant in Carlow.

Workers at the Braun factory in Carlow are due to meet later today to discuss the possibility of all-out strike action.

EFFORTS were continuing last night to avert industrial action which could threaten over 650 jobs at a manufacturing plant.

TALKS between workers and management at one of the south east’s largest companies hit a crunch phase today.

WORKERS at one of the south-east’s largest employers, the Braun Oral-B plant in Carlow, have voted for industrial action in a move which could threaten up to 600 jobs at the company.

Gillette the world's leading maker of shaving supplies, announced it has agreed to acquire the Rembrandt brand of at-home and professional teeth-whitening products from Den-Mat, a private firm based in Santa Maria, California.

Protective notice on 600 workers has been lifted at the Braun plant in Co Carlow this evening.

Unions representing workers at the Braun plant in Carlow are due to resume talks with company management today in an effort to avoid up to 600 lay-offs.

Talks are due to get underway today between management and unions representing staff at Braun Ireland.

FEARS are growing for the future of 550 jobs at a manufacturing plant after the entire workforce was yesterday put on protective notice.

The Braun electronics company has put almost 600 workers at its plant in Carlow on protective notice.

The 600-strong workforce at Braun in Carlow has been placed on protective notice from Monday, in the latest phase of the company's rationalisation plan.

A €3 MILLION business park developed by the IDA has been lying idle for the last six months because of a failure to attract investors.

IRELAND is in line to achieve ambitious employment growth despite current job losses and the downturn in the economy, according to a major EU report just released.

SIPTU has convened a meeting with senior management at the Braun plant in Carlow today in an effort to avert the company’s plans to lay off 225 workers.

AN ELECTRICAL company, which announced yesterday that it is to shed 225 of its 805-strong workforce, said it would do everything in its power to ensure the plant remains competitive and prevent further cuts.

NEWLYWEDS Teresa and James Ferris never thought that a month into wedded bliss they’d be cast out into the jobs market.

The Braun electrical firm has announced plans to lay off 225 workers at its factory in Carlow town.

Ireland may cut the number of foreign nationals being given work permits after figures published today showed showing the first year-on-year increase in the country’s unemployment level in five years.

The Central Statistics Office has revealed that the live register increased by 5,200 last month.