The insurers will tot up the cost of the damage inflicted by yesterday’s storm but there will be no pay-out to ease the heartbreak the weather has wreaked on Clonmel RFC.

THE supplementary budget was “savage and a missed opportunity” which will do nothing to stimulate enterprise or help keep people in jobs, the Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association (ISME) charged yesterday.

AIB yesterday reiterated its claim that it is not in need of rescue capital from the Government or private equity houses.

FORECASTS from the Government in its pre-Budget outlook yesterday paints a grimmer picture of the economy for the next few years than has been the case.