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Dr Jerry Cowley today outlined a number of initiatives set out in Labour’s policy programme that he believes will assist Mayo small businesses and enterprises. In a week where Údarás released figures which showed that in 2010 there was a net loss of 132 jobs in the Mayo Gaeltacht, and other major businesses are threatened by lack of credit, Dr Cowley has said it is time to look to Labour for solutions.

Labour Party TD Willie Penrose has said this week’s Budget is bereft of hope for people who have lost their jobs. “With well over 400,000 people in Ireland looking for work, surely the number one priority for this budget should have been job creation? We had every right to expect that the budget would put forward some concrete proposals to get people off the dole queues and into jobs, but instead we got nothing.”

The Communications Workers Union (CWU) is calling on the Government to help maintain Postbank services, following a meeting with Postbank management yesterday (Thursday) to discuss the future of staff at the company, including 170 workers in its Athlone call centre.