Telecoms company UPC Ireland is to shed as many as 170 jobs across its facilities as part of a cost-cutting programme.

Staff at Killarney Golf Club are to be balloted for strike action after management informed them that 21 are to be made redundant.

THE latest jobs blow in a week of economic doom hit Kilkenny when it was confirmed that 221 people will lose their jobs in the imminent closure of Galmoy Mines.