Staff at Bausch + Lomb are facing average cuts of €6,000 to their basic pay under the cost-cutting plan announced by the company.

The very sobering suggestion, if that is all it really was, from IDA chief executive Barry O’Leary yesterday that workers at the Bausch + Lomb plant in Waterford have little option but to carefully consider the take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum put to them this week by the company’s new owners must send another shiver down the spines of the 161,000 workers employed by foreign firms.

200 jobs are to go at the Bausch and Lomb plant in Waterford.

Manchester United owner Malcolm Glazer has died, his NFL franchise the Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced last night.

We have heard of leaving your umbrella in the car but a semi-automatic rifle is taking it to a new level.

Fine weather played havoc with the opening races of the Cork County Council IFDS World Championships at Kinsale yesterday, where racing was postponed due to lack of wind.

Jason Dufner had sat in the media centre two years previously at Atlanta Athletic Club as the disappointed yet philosophical PGA Championship runner-up. Sunday night he was back on stage at Oak Hill as a newly-minted Major champion.

Pádraig Harrington admitted he will treat today’s second round of the PGA Championship as practice after his ongoing woes continued with an opening six-over-par 76 at Oak Hill.

Lee Westwood insists his Open Championship disappointment has simply strengthened his belief that he can win a major.

Rory McIlroy will not rediscover his fluent swing until he finds a way to free his “scrambled” mind, according to renowned golfing guru David Leadbetter.

A US woman is earning $260 a day by snuggling men.

Photography giant Eastman Kodak has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks to boost its cash position and stay in business.

Give Your Stuff Away day takes place on Saturday. It’s a better idea than dumping, Mike Morone tells Jonathan de Burca Butler

SCALING the steps to the Skellig Michael monastery is like “a mountaineering activity”, known as “scrambling”, in which the hands are used to balance, a safety review has warned.

A FUNDAMENTAL review of safety on Skellig Michael is to be carried out following the second death this year after a fall on the rock, Minister of State for the Office of Public Works (OPW) Martin Mansergh confirmed yesterday.

Global eye care giant Bausch & Lomb is to shed 120 jobs at its south-east plant as it looks to cut costs and shift part of its Irish operation to the US.

US car workers vented their fury today over Barack Obama’s tough tactics, inflaming long-simmering feelings that the people who put America on wheels are treated differently to the wizards of Wall Street.

'Friends' star Matthew Perry is set for a shocking return to TV - as a foul-mouthed talk show host.

EMC Corp, the world’s biggest maker of storage computers, cut its 2006 profit and revenue forecast after the company couldn’t produce enough machines to meet demand.

Jeong Jang, the reigning Weetabix Women’s British Open Champion, continued a run of South Korean dominance on the LPGA Tour when she won the Wegmans LPGA in Rochester, New York.

Reigning Women’s British Open Champion Jeong Jang set her sights on a second LPGA title after a third-round 66 in the Wegmans LPGA in Rochester, New York.

US stocks managed modest gains today as investors saw a series of corporate acquisitions as a chance to pick up bargains in an otherwise difficult market. Another record high for oil prices muted the gains.

Experts are investigating today why a bus chartered for a Canadian hockey team swerved and rammed a parked tractor-trailer so hard that the bus split in half lengthwise, killing four people and injuring 19.

US captain Tom Lehman has named former team-mates Corey Pavin and Loren Roberts as assistant captains for the 2006 US Ryder Cup team.

Eastman Kodak Co., the world’s largest photography company, said it would close processing labs in Spain and Norway and scale back one in Switzerland, cutting 313 jobs, as demand for traditional photos declines.

World's number one photographic film manufacturer, US group Eastman Kodak, has filed a lawsuit against Sony, accusing the Japanese giant of infringing 10 of its patents on digital photo technology.

Super Bowl tycoon Malcolm Glazer has emerged as a major competitor to the Magnier/McManus axis, BRIAN O’MAHONY reports.

Padraig Harrington is celebrating the arrival of his first child – although he missed the birth as he was on the other side of the Atlantic.

Darren Clarke was able to reflect today on achieving one of his main career goals – winning a stroke play event on American soil.

An inspired Darren Clarke got the better of Tiger Woods again in yet another million-dollar duel today – and this time on one of the world number one’s favourite courses.

Get prepared for another big shock in major championship golf.

There looks every chance of the final major of the season – the United States PGA championship – being won by a record score at Oak Hill this weekend. A record high score, that is.

Colin Montgomerie crashed to his worst-ever round in America today – a 12-over-par 82 that left him a massive 16 strokes adrift of US PGA Championship leaders Phil Mickelson and Australian Rod Pampling.

Golf’s final major of the year, the United States PGA championship, began today with the very first shot being fired out of bounds.

Justin Rose had such a fabulous 2002 that it was always going to be a tough act to follow.

United States Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton is making it a priority to bring the best out of Tiger Woods next September in Detroit.

Open champion Ben Curtis – not a phrase anybody in golf expected to be using a month ago – steps back into the limelight tomorrow.

Padraig Harrington has decided to take part in the USPGA after getting a medical update on his pregnant wife Caroline.

Nick Price heads a trio of major winners to have withdrawn from the PGA Championship which gets underway on August 14.

Padraig Harrington may well go into next month’s US PGA Championship without a single practice round.

Lee Westwood, currently 209th in the world, has been invited to take part in next month’s US PGA championship.

Photography giant Eastman Kodak is axing up to 6,000 jobs as it struggles with a slump in film sales blamed largely and the rapid growth of digital cameras and a sluggish US economy.

DARREN CLARKE is set to play a minimum of 11 tournaments in America this year but is adamant that he will not be joining the US Tour full-time.

The US Court of Appeals has reopened a patent infringement lawsuit by Xerox against Palm over handwriting recognition on handheld computers.