Machine telematics are helping agricultural contractors identify their true costs, according to the Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI).

One of the joys of childhood is the lack of responsibility, aside from school. Not so for the 4,000 children who are carers. Arlene Harris meets one.

US engineering firm, ABEC Inc, plans to revamp an abandoned factory in north Cork and create 100 jobs over the next two years as part of a major expansion of its global operations.

The Association of Farm Contractors in Ireland (FCI) hopes to move a step closer to stamping out tax-evading operators when it meets with the Revenue Commissioners shortly.

Carbon tax relief on diesel and a revision of the Finance Act are needed to stop black market agri contractors from driving legitimate operators out of business, according to the Association of Farm Contractors of Ireland.

PLANS for a €70 million super prison for Munster have been put on ‘the long finger’ because of the current state of the Government’s finances.

ONE of north Cork’s biggest employers is to shed 130 jobs in the coming weeks, less than two years after a €30 million investment in its plant.

More than 2,000 people were made redundant every month last year, new figures revealed today.

A MOCK general election, by students in Cork East, produced a bag of surprises.

YOUGHAL in Co Cork was reeling last night from the decision by a local company to close down with the loss of 55 jobs.

WHAT happened yesterday at Pfizer in Cork, where hundreds of jobs were put at risk, is a stark reminder that not everything is rosy in the Irish economy.

Hundreds of jobs are hanging in the balance at Pfizer's plants in Cork today as a result of a major restructuring programme.

THE announcement that 240 jobs at FCI Ireland will be lost by the end of next year is another hammer-blow to Fermoy and confirms that north Cork is facing its worst employment crisis for decades.

THE Central Bank, predicting a slightly slower growth this year than last, could be seen as sending a shot across the bow in also pointing to the risks posed to the country’s export competitiveness by inflation.

AN 80-acre site at Lynch Camp in Kilworth, Co Cork, is the preferred site for a super-prison, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said yesterday.

A 19-ACRE fully serviced IDA site has lain empty for over five years in the north Cork town where 440 job losses have been announced in the last month.

REELING from a threat to axe 300 BUPA jobs, the town of Fermoy in north Cork has suffered another body blow. Though workers have long expected the French company FCI Ireland to close its manufacturing plant, yesterday’s decision was a bombshell for the community.

THE north Cork town of Fermoy has been rocked by the announcement of 240 job losses at components manufacturer FCI, less than a month after it was announced BUPA was slashing 200 jobs there.

Professional cycling has been suspended in Italy from June 18 by the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI).