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Public servants face prospect of longer working hours

Ingrid Miley, RTE Industry and Employment Correspondent, says everything from longer hours to more redundancies are on the table as talks start on the Croke Park public sector agreement

Union says public sector talks will be difficult

Kevin Callinan, IMPACT deputy general secretary, is warning that the talks will be the most difficult the public sector unions have ever undertaken

Education Minister rolls out school patronage survey

Ruairi Quinn, Minister for Education and Skills: Surveys on primary school patronage rolled out to 38 areas across the country

Trinity study new way to admit students

Dr Patrick Geoghegan, TCD Dean of Undergraduate Students: TCD and CAO launch new feasibility study on a better way to admit students to universities

Welcome for decision to reverse cuts to personal security alarms

Catherine Cox, Communications Manager with The Carers' Association, welcomes the government's U-turn on the controversial decision to halve spending this year on personal security alarms for older people

European bank appeals to Irish customers

Suma Chakrabarti, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,wants more Irish firms to get involved in Bank-backed projects, and talks about its overall activities

The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards

US journalist Steve Futterman on the winners and losers from last night's 70th annual Golden Globe Awards

Wicklow Hospice to benefit from Lincoln film auction

Dr. Brendan Cuddihy, Wicklow Hospice Foundation Chair, talks about next Sunday's European premiere of Lincoln in Dublin, and the auction of film props to raise money for Wicklow Hospice

Irish father and daughter develop calculator app

Irish father and daughter duo Aidan and Isabel Hughes (12) who have developed a calculator app for adding fractions that is now the number one calculator app for the Kindle Fire tablet in the US and UK and is the second-highest rated app in all categories out of a total of 64,878 apps on Amazon's Android App Store

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Apology to Dermot Desmond

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