PRIVATE sector trade unions are prepared to strike, if the Government introduces legislation allowing companies to claim inability to pay their staff the minimum wage applicable in their sector.

Some 25 new jobs will be created after a broadband supplier announced a €3m investment programme, it was revealed today.

Some 200 high quality jobs are to be created over the next five years at a medical technology company in Limerick, it was announced today.

THE Government has come under fire over the loss of hundreds of jobs in west Waterford following Tuesday’s announcement of the closure of Cappoquin Chickens.

THE IDA has warned of more cutbacks in the telecoms sector following the loss of more than 300 jobs at the mobile phone software company Logica-CMG in Dublin and Cork.