PILOTS of a crippled Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo struggled with more than a dozen system errors after an engine blew apart and landed the plane in Singapore with barely any runway to spare, an Australian investigation showed.

BANKING software group CR2 managed to reduce its losses last year and sales in 2005 are running ahead of target.

Gardai have named a man who died in a two-vehicle collision on the Swinford by-pass in Mayo yesterday afternoon.