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Financial Solutions Skillnet (FSS) has been awarded €136,500 to continue its subsidised training programme in 2009. The network of more than 60 members offers tailored training courses and networking events to financial services companies and the banking sector.

There has been widespread welcome among local politicians to last Thursday’s announcement that pharmaceutical company PPD Inc is to establish a €14 million research facility in Athlone with the creation of 250 jobs.

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Reacting to the redundancy figures for 2008 issued by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (ISME), warned that unless the cost of maintaining staff was addressed, the labour market would collapse.

Deputy Willie Penrose has reacted with anger to new figures which reveal that the number of redundancies in Westmeath increased by 74 per cent in 2008 over the previous year.

Tanaiste Mary Coughlan’s Department came in for some criticism in the District Court this week (January 14) after it pursued an action against a Moate chipper for employing a 16-year-old breadwinner after 10pm.

Noel O'Gara, the businessman and ground rent speculator who bought the title to a south Dublin suburban square from under the noses of the City Council three years ago, was fined a total of €4,700 in the District Court last week (January 16) after he was convicted of auditing four companies for which he was not qualified.

For the second time in a month, a judge criticised the Tánaiste, Mary Coughlan, for failing to appreciate the present financial climate before throwing out all charges brought against a business for employing teenagers illegally.

Deputy Phil Hogan and Junior Minister John McGuinness are campaigning on behalf of the workers at St Francis Abbey Brewery who are uncertain about their future following recent developments at the brewery headquarters.

Some of the secrets of surviving the recession will be revealed at a forthcoming training seminar for fledgling businesses across the west.