Farmers, small business owners and self-employed workers will have to fight to be included in a €2.5 billion fund to retrain and upskill European victims of globalisation.

TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore has denied that Labour “hijacked” the outgoing Irish member of the European Court of Auditors, Eoin O’Shea.

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