COMMUNITY and social enterprise projects could provide up to 65,000 jobs but needs to be driven by government at national level, according to a report.

Business managers who are taken hostage at their companies by disgruntled workers must defy them and refuse to “start negotiations with a gun at the head”, the leader of a French business federation said today.

Many people are still suffering despite the economic success that the country has reaped over the past few years, President Mary McAleese warned today.