THIRTY REDUNDANT workers have been picketing the offices of the Colmeg clothing company in Dublin's Cork Street for the last two weeks. The company is owned by Brian Tucker, a well known name in Dublin's clothing trade. The workers had been involved in negotiations to secure adequate redundancy payments with the company when they found themselves locked out on Thursday 27 April. Free article

Eircell, along with a small army of `security men', sneaked into the ESB sub-station in Carrick-on-Shannon at 6am last week to erect a high mobile phone mast. Free article

There are now 55,000 ``super rich'' people across the globe, according to a new survey by US investment bank Merrill Lynch and Gemini Consulting. These super rich individuals own assets worth $7.9 trillion and their wealth grew by 20% in 1999. To qualify for this group, you have to have assets of over $30 million. Free article

``It's a typical example of the inertia of local councils. Never mind about meeting local housing needs, the councillors have failed to maintain the housing stock they already have, even when the local authority didn't have to pay for the repairs,'' says John Dwyer of New Ross, County Wexford. Free article