Pierre Moscovici, head of tax at the European Commission, was in Dublin yesterday and said he was open to compromises that would help encourage Ireland to buy into Brussels’ new tax proposal that aims to share out Europe’s corporate tax spoils.

A comparatively small number of people participate in the JobBridge training programme that Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar plans to replace after the summer, official figures published yesterday show.

THE rift in the Government over the return of third-level fees deepened yesterday as Tánaiste Mary Harney and Minister for Education Noel Dempsey stuck hard to their conflicting stances.