AER LINGUS management and the IMPACT trade union are expected to negotiate ‘clarifications’ to a €97 million cost-cutting plan at the former national airline which will allow cabin crew to be re-balloted on acceptance of the deal.

UNUSUALLY high cancer levels have been recorded in Limerick’s poor and crime-ridden council estates compared with the suburbs.

ANYA GREALY was looking to expand her small hotel in Roscommon two years ago. Despite it being a bad time for the tourism industry, she wanted to add 26 bedrooms to her Abbey Hotel and extend the conference and leisure facilities.

ARCHANT, the British regional media group, are to pump €1.56 million into a new daily paper for Dublin.

Despite a couple of surprise results in the first two rounds the holder Neil Manchip remains as favourite to retain the title in this bi-annual championship.