TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern said Intel’s commitment to another facility at Leixlip, Co Kildare, demonstrated that Ireland was still a good place in which to do business.

BOSSES and workers should keep prices and wages down to maintain the nation’s competitiveness, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern demanded yesterday.

THOUSANDS of jobs and millions of euro in investment will be lost because of the sharp rise in development levies by local authorities, the IDA and construction industry have warned.