ISME has noted an improvement in the level of bank lending to small businesses but said credit levels are still a long way off normal patterns.

THE head of the Credit Review Office (CRO) has said anything that can get capital moving to the small business community would be welcome, without clearly endorsing the establishment of a state-controlled strategic investment bank — for which opposition parties are calling.

CONSUMERS are being duped into buying imported pork and chicken by misleading labelling, the IFA argued at a Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise yesterday.

Fine Gael Councillor Michael Fitzgerald of South Tipperary County Council has certainly got plenty of publicity for his reckless complaint about targeting people driving after drinking three or four pints.