AS a response to our economic difficulties the innovative projects unveiled by the Mallow Development Partnership yesterday are inspiring in a way that has not been seen recently.

In the global economy it is important that outside concerns about the Leaving Certificate results in this country should be addressed.

Some 200 new jobs are to be created in Letterkenny, it was announced today.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has said the 785 workers axed from Pfizer will be given every possible support by state agencies.

UNLESS the tax base is broadened to repair the public finances income taxes will have to be raised, the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) has warned.

THE crisis in maths grades is best addressed with the gradual introduction of new subject material instead of a panicked reaction, Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe has insisted.

CHAMBERS Ireland moved to dissociate itself from comments of its president-elect yesterday after he revealed his intention to vote against the Lisbon treaty.

PROFESSIONAL gambler Miles Rodgers was suspected of having more than a dozen secret accounts with an internet betting firm, the Kieren Fallon trial was told yesterday.

Kieren Fallon appeared in court yesterday to answer charges relating to an alleged betting conspiracy.

Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon appeared in court today to answer charges relating to an alleged betting conspiracy.

Champion jockey Kieren Fallon was one of 11 people charged today in relation to the City of London police investigation into allegations of corruption in racing.

American Chamber of Commerce (Ireland) CEO Joanne Richardson was among the guest speaks at a breakfast briefing for 100 of Cork’s leading business women today.

THE American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland has called on EU internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy to ensure that the proposed EU directive on services is implemented in full.

FEARS that four more years of George W Bush in the White House would damage US investment in Ireland have been played down.

US multinational companies are warning that excessive EU legislation is adding to the cost of doing business in Europe.

Excessive European Union legislation is in danger of affecting US multi-national companies doing business in Ireland.

I READ in the business section (Irish Examiner, October 1) that the American Chamber of Commerce chief executive, Joanne Richardson, stated that, despite our current world class reputation as a manufacturing location, we are vulnerable to competition from low-cost countries in the manufacturing area.

IRISH companies have been queuing up at the door of the German-Irish Chamber of Commerce to contact German companies to replace British suppliers charging sterling.

THE threat to industry

US multinationals in Ireland have called for a ‘Yes’ vote when the Government re-runs the referendum on the Nice Treaty later this year.

US companies in Ireland are expected to demand that the new Government provide improved infrastructure in regions outside Dublin.