Sunday Business News from Ireland

NEARLY EVERY BROADSHEET in Ireland on nearly every day of the week has coverage of the next thing to be cut from government services. That storyline continues across the Sunday broadsheets in Ieland today [1] [2] sith "significant job cuts in education, including in third level institutions" according to several reports. Those kinds of cuts affect me and my continued employment so times are tense. They're also a little tense on the other side of the classroom as the Minister for Education has signalled his support for a new loan scheme that would require students to repay the cost of their college fees after graduation. [3] The cuts that will have to be made to public spending will hurt, but there is no other choice. [4] I cover these topics and a few items related to business technology in todays 7-minute Qik clip.

Ireland's Overheated Property Market. Many commentators pointed out how the Minister for Finance stoked the Irish property market until it overheated. In today's Home supplement to the Sunday Times, Mark Keenan reiterates the complicit hand played by the Taoiseach Brian Cowen in creating an unsustainable Irish property market. [5]

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1. Stephen O'Brien -- "Snip calls for 20,000 jobs to go" on the front page of the Sunday Times, 12 July 2009.

2. Cliff Taylor -- "Public sector jobs targeted in Bord Snip Nua Report" on the front page of the Sunday Business Post, 12 July 2009.

3. Martha Kearns -- "College fees options emerge" in the News Focus section of the Sunday BUsiness Post, 12 July 2009.

4. Cliff Taylor -- "No Alternative but to snip" in the Sunday Business Post, 12 July 2009.

6. Mark Keenan -- "Five reasons why Cowen is guilty" in the Home supplement to the Sunday Times, 12 July 2009.

Direct link to Qik clip: http://www.qik.com/video/2168477

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