Combined pension costs across all State agencies amounted to just under €61.4m last year, and, nearly 80% of the Oireachtas grant given to trade advisory board Forfas was hoovered up by pension costs.

MORE THAN 100,000 foreign graduates will be needed to fill jobs here in the next six years, according to a report published yesterday.

THE head of one of the country’s leading universities accused the Government of threatening research competitiveness yesterday.