A round-up of today's regional news in brief
Aer Lingus in Shannon talks
Aer Lingus management will travel to Shannon today to discuss with staff its survival plan which would see hundreds of jobs lost and €97 million saved.
In October company bosses told 120 workers at a Shannon meeting that under the plan it proposed removing its transatlantic base at the airport with the loss of 75 per cent of cabin crew jobs.
Since the October briefing worker representatives from Shannon have engaged in “open and purposeful” talks with the airline.
Crosbie plaque unveiled in Cork
A bronze plaque marking the historic link between the Crosbie family, owners of the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo, and Cork city has been erected on the city’s main thoroughfare, St Patrick’s Street. The pavement plaque is a replica of the original doorway of the Irish Examiner offices.
Ted Crosbie, vice-chairman of Thomas Crosbie Holdings, helped Owen O’Callaghan unveil the plaque, sculpted by Liam Lavery and Eithne Ring, outside the developer’s new Opera Lane retail premises.
Kilcullen to Carlow motorway to open
The €300 million motorway from Kilcullen, Co Kildare, to Carlow is to open next Monday, some nine months ahead of schedule.
The 27km stretch of motorway will provide a bypass of Castledermot and a new national secondary road to Athy town via the junction at Mullamast in Co Kildare.
The motorway forms part of the M9 Dublin to Waterford route which is due to be completed in 2010.