GSOC has taken a long-term lease on some 5,000 sq ft of offices at the Atrium, Blackpool, in a suite vacated by a relocated business advisers and services firm, Roberts Nathan.

A jury in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been shown video footage of the garda raid on an alleged brothel call centre in the International Financial Services Centre area of the city in October 2005.

A detective inspector has told how gardaí found a large number of mobile phones in raids in October 2005 on two Dublin city centre premises linked to a brothel operation.

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.