A NEW deer fencing system being erected in selected areas of Killarney National Park is aimed at saving and regenerating some of the country’s most famous oak woods.

COMMENTARY by employers’ groups and conservative pundits on wage levels in the Irish economy usually boils down to allegations that wages are ‘too high’, ‘growing too fast’, ‘undermining our competitiveness’, etc.

STRIKE action by security staff which forced the cancellation yesterday of 18 operations at Waterford Regional Hospital was called off last night after a meeting between SIPTU and the Health Service Executive (HSE).

EMPLOYERS' body IBEC yesterday warned that current plans to develop the west of Ireland’s economy are having little effect.