An industry group is today calling on the Government to make science a compulsory subject at Junior Cert level.

WASTE management firm Indaver has insisted it remains committed to its controversial Cork Harbour incinerator project.

BANK of Ireland has sold its 50% holding in Paul Capital Investments (PCI) to the firm’s existing management team.

The Paralympic Council of Ireland (PCI) today announced OCS One Complete Solution as an official sponsor of the 2012 Irish Paralympic team at an event in Dublin Airport.

Drogheda man Jimmy Gradwell has been appointed as new president of the Paralympic Council of Ireland, it was announced today.

SPORTS Minister Martin Cullen, has vowed the government’s sports budget will not be “one of the first things to be cut” as the country enters an economic slowdown.

The Irish team for the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing was officially announced by Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen in Dublin today.

Irish paralympic sprinter Jason Smyth, from Eglinton in Derry, broke his own 100m (T13 category* for visually impaired athletes) world record in his first competitive start of the season yesterday recording a time of 10.85 seconds.

“I WOULDN’T book flights on Aer Lingus for any date soon,” was the ominous warning from one informed union source, ahead of today’s counting of worker votes on the airline’s new cost-cutting measures.

SIPTU officials will meet with Aer Lingus shop stewards this afternoon to establish whether the company and workers have made sufficient progress to stave off disruptive strike action at the airline.

AER LINGUS will start suspending ground staff from next Monday if they fail to co-operate with the airline’s new cost-saving measures, which come into effect the same day.

YESTERDAY’S deadline for final agreement on the e20 million cost-savings at Aer Lingus failed to be met as the airline engaged in yet more talks with worker representatives.

The threat of strike action at Aer Lingus appears to have been averted.

THE National Implementation Body was yesterday given the unenviable task of searching for a resolution of the year-long dispute between Aer Lingus and its unions over its €20 million cost-cutting programme.

AER Lingus cabin crew will decide next Friday whether to ballot their 1,500 members for industrial action over the airline’s decision to impose a pay freeze across the company.

Aer Lingus management was tonight accused of attempting to blackmail its staff into accepting tough cost-cutting measures.

MEMBERS of the Irish Paralympic panels will travel to Beijing on Thursday for 10 days of acclimatisation and familiarisation in advance of next year’s Paralympic Games.

Strike action is firmly on the cards as management and unions are set to clash over Aer Lingus cost-cutting plans, writes Stephen Rogers.

THOUSANDS of Aer Lingus passengers face a strong prospect of being grounded within the coming weeks as relations between the company and its workers reach an all-time low.

WHILE delighted with the exposure given to paralympic sport (‘Irish paralympic cycling cash crisis’, Irish Examiners, January 24), the Paralympic Council of Ireland (PCI) would like to clarify a number of inaccuracies relating to funding granted to paralympic cycling in 2007.

Bray teenager Gary Messett has been chosen as Ireland's flag-bearer for Friday's opening ceremony of the twelfth Paralympic Games in Athens.