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Figures released by the CSO in relation to retail sales volume index show that there was a one per cent increase in June 2010 in comparison to June 2009.

With new CSO figures showing that retail sales outside the motor trade are still falling, Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has warned that more businesses will close and more jobs will be lost unless the Government develops a national jobs and competitiveness strategy.

To date Hyundai has enjoyed unparalleled success in Europe under the various scrappage programmes.

A special ‘Speed Networking’ event organised by Galway Business Club and being held next week aims to assist businesses reach their sales targets this year. The first of these events will take place at 6.30pm in The Westwood House Hotel, Galway on Wednesday next September 17, so as to give companies a head start for the last quarter’s sales targets.

Sheep farmers are under extreme financial pressure at the present time, and the very future of the sector in Ireland is being threatened through excessive lamb price cutting by both the retailers and the factories.

Kilkenny City Labour Party candidate Sean Butler has welcomed Eamon Gilmore’s outlining of a vision to get Ireland out of the current economic crisis.

ISME, the Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association, has outlined that Irish shoppers heading to foreign destinations are killing Irish jobs, undermining local businesses and robbing the Irish economy of millions of Euro in unpaid taxes.

The seasonally adjusted Live Register total increased from 244,500 in September to 260,300 in October, an increase of 15,800, the latest figures from the CSO reveal.

It’s time for the big Christmas debate. You know the one: is it too early to start the Christmas buzz in November?

As a person who normally jumps on the seasonal bandwagon in the lead up to Christmas, my festive spirit seems to have waned this year — a sort of Chrimbo limbo. Perhaps I’m not alone, it's a feeling of guilt that has swept into our subconscious that in this current economic meltdown that our usual Christmas madness in this chastised economy will be a bit more subdued, and surprisingly I discovered the reason I was feeling this nonchalance was that consumerism had taken such a hold over the past few years, that I had unbeknown to myself equated consumerism with Christmas. Indeed, President Mary McAleese during a speech made in Arizona this week commented that “hands on our hearts that we were all consumed by that same element of consumerism”.