Pre-tax losses at the Irish arm of international firm Jacobs Engineering last year decreased by 53% to €1.5m.

The need to end the gridlock at city’s key road junction has intensified, writes Sean O’Riordan

JACOBS Engineering Group reported yesterday that Q4 profit dropped by about a third and earnings missed Wall Street expectations, as the construction services firm was hit by project cancellations.

The man who shot dead a fellow Nasa worker before turning the gun on himself was undergoing a job review for poor performance and feared being sacked.

The man who shot and killed another NASA worker before turning the gun on himself was undergoing a job review for poor performance and feared being fired, officials said tonight.

Nasa is concentrating on a review of its security procedures as officials try to figure out today how a contract worker smuggled a handgun into the Johnson Space Centre, where he killed another employee and himself.

A 60-year-old Nasa contract worker took a handgun inside an office building at the Johnson Space Centre and shot dead a hostage before killing himself.