A Co Cork mother has expressed anger at Eircom after she was unable to make an emergency call when her toddler had a seizure.

The union representing the 171 AIB information technology staff who are to be outsourced to three companies, has insisted no transfers will take place unless clear assurances are given about the workers’ job security.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan said today that he has no role in making decisions about the workforce in AIB.

I reported the breakdown of my phone line to Eircom on September 11 and an engineer called on September 15, indicating a small dig would take place within days. When nobody appeared, I rang and continued to ring at intervals. 

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Now you see me, now you don’t — what photographer Adrian Cronin witnessed on the battered shores of Bantry Bay was like a scene from tsunami drama The Impossible, a scene replicated around a storm-clobbered coast.

Thousands have been left without power, roads have been ripped up and isolated homes have been cut off from the mainland after storms ravaged the country.

Motorists are being urged to take extreme care on the roads this morning, due to very stormy conditions.

City buyers cutting cloth to their financial means, stressing location over size Tommy Barker reports.

Gardaí in Meath have warned of ‘piggy-backers’ who are “taking advantage of genuine charity collectors” and other services in the run-up to Christmas.

Three juveniles have been arrested after they attempted to steal a quantity of copper wire from an Eircom yard in Bridgend in Donegal.

THE exchequer is celebrating an €845m windfall from last week’s 4G auction, but lobbyists say rural dwellers expecting a good broadband connection should leave the champagne on ice.

A mint-order extended bungalow, on the top of Cork city at famed Fairhill, has just had a price reduction- and is now under offer too.

Pre-tax profits at directory enquiry firm, 11890, last year increased more than four fold to €688,177, new figures show.

EIRCOM Group owner Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte asked lenders to cancel €1.75 billion of the phone company’s €3.75bn debt, according to two people with knowledge of the plan.

EIRCOM Group’sindependent directors have set a November 18 deadline for investment proposals as the country’s biggest phone company seeks to restructure its debt, according to two sources.

A SEPARATED father of two, known as a “quiet man who loved his music”, was found slaughtered yesterday in a brutal attack at his flat in Limerick.

THIEVES have turned their attention to stealing lead, aluminium and copper, according to a commercial security company.

GARDAÍ believe they may have smashed a racket involving the theft of phone cabling from Eircom poles.

IT was a day when the world turned a little differently.

Workers at Eircom represented by the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have accepted a rescue package.

AS the big freeze took hold again overnight, road conditions remained dangerous with the lack of gritting on minor roads an ongoing problem.

A MAJOR Garda transfer commenced in Limerick yesterday as up to seven units, including the immigration service, began to move out of the cramped Henry Street divisional headquarters to the adjoining Estuary House.

Union representatives at ESB are warning the Government against any sale or break-up of the company.

THE welcome announcement of 300 fuel garage jobs today will do little to soften the blow of 4,000 looming job losses in the bank and telecoms sectors.

Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary has said the Government has failed to make strong enough decisions to bring Ireland out of recession.

A Sligo woman who fraudulently claimed her dead father’s pension for six years has been given a 12-month suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A father who got his teenage son to act as an accomplice in the theft of nearly €4,000 worth of copper cabling has been ordered by a judge to pay compensation.

THOMOND Park had to come to terms with a break in tradition last night when the Republic of Ireland lined out against Australia in a soccer friendly.

One of the men on trial in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery case told gardaí he knew one of his co-accused and was buying a car from him at the time.

RESIDENTS of an historic west Kerry village have vowed to continue their campaign against an Eircom mast after an Bord Pleanála overruled its own inspector to give the project the green light.

Relegation-threatened UCD are at full strength for tonight's visit of Cork City in the eircom League of Ireland Premier Division (kick-off 7.45pm).

The jury in the trial of a Clare woman and a former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring to kill the woman’s partner and his two sons have heard that the prosecution believe they have an “overwhelming” case against the two accused.

THE expected battle for the naming rights for the €40 million Thomond Park has not materialised, with potential bidders worried about a potential backlash from fans.

ANGRY parents protested yesterday against Eircom plans to erect a digital radio mast just 50 metres from a national school.

Persistent and severe storm conditions have resulted in ongoing high levels of faults on the eircom across the country.

EIRCOM has avoided what would have been its first strike action in 30 years after the unions representing its 6,500 workers yesterday agreed to settlement terms mediated between company and workers at the Labour Relations Commission.

The Labour Relations Commission is chairing talks this evening in the Eircom dispute.

Tonight's matches between Bray Wanderers and Derry City in the eircom Premier League and Shelbourne and Kildare County in the eircom First Division have both been called off.

EIRCOM is today expected to be served with notice of industrial action up to and including strike action by 4,500 of its workers.

SWEDISH fashion retailer H&M said first quarter sales at its Irish shops rose by 21%.

I HAVE previously written of the atrocious service from Eircom and Iarnród Éireann. Their responses went something like this: ‘We are surprised to hear such awful things happened to you.

Dundalk were 3-2 winners at Cobh Ramblers in the eircom First Division this afternoon.

EIRCOM’S current and former employees are likely to get windfall payments later this year from the sale of their stake in the company.