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Irish Rail has fired Spanish IT multinational Indra Sistemas, which was responsible for developing a delayed train movement management system across its network. The news comes alongside other business updates from The Irish Times business desk, covering topics such as the carbon tax trajectory, personal investment plans announced by Minister for Finance Simon Harris, business leaders' public commentary, an intercountry hurler's success in the New York construction sector, lifestyle spending insights, and concerns over living to 100 including money and health. Additional features include a beginner's guide to the 9-5 work week.
Business Digest: The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk Irish Rail has fired the Spanish group that was supposed to develop a new system for managing its netowrk.
Photograph: Eric LukeIrish Rail has fired the Spanish IT multinational Indra Sistemas, which had been developing the much-delayed system to manage the movement of trains across the network,preposterously arrogant comments of a chief executive in a media interview, but it does make her wonder why the outspoken chief executive - people like Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary - seems to have become an endangered breed.
While most Irish politicians accept that global heating is happening and is serious, they are more hesitant about the need to take action to halt it,Intercountry hurler scores big in New York construction sector But, he warns, any pause in the planned upward trajectory for the carbon tax in the budget would not only blunt the incentive to reduce fossil fuel use, but it would also mean less funds available to tackle fuel poverty among low-income households, hard hit by higher energy prices. Minister for Finance Simon Harris last week announced details of the long-awaited personal investment plans, most of it for the umpteenth time.
But,to Tony Clayton-Lea. Unsurprisingly, she says her kitchen has been probably her most extravagant purchase, “but it’s absolutely beautiful. It has everything that I need, and as I spend a good deal of my day there, I think it is extraordinarily good value for money”. Money and health the big concerns as living to 100 becomes a reality – surveyA beginner’s guide to the 9-5 work week: Minimise your morning, don’t overshare
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