Information correct as 1st October 09. 80% of Small Business accounts from 1st September 08 to 30th August 09. 75 off offer applies to eircom talktime for business orders accepted before 27th November 09. Terms and conditions apply and are available at www.eircom.ie/telecommunications_scheme. Price quoted ex VAT. More and more small businesses are switching back to eircom With a dedicated business service centre for all our customers, nobody offers better customer service than eircom. Perhaps thats why so many small businesses end up switching back to Irelands leading phone and broadband provider. In fact, in the last year 80% of small businesses who left eircom switched back. For real value and great service, call us today... Switch now and get 75 OFF your bill business broadband voice mobile data online solutions Call 1800 24 54 40 MENU the Home Digest 4 Guilty Pleasures Celebrity gossip 8 World Digest 12 MetroLife Arts and entertainment 16-17 60 Second Interview Actress Emma Stone 18 Letters 14 TV 18-19 Puzzles 20 Classifieds 21-28 Sport 29-32 Help keep Dublin clean and tidy for everyone by taking your Metro with you and recycling it TODAY: Dry with bright spells after a misty start. Max: 15C TOMORROW: Mainly dry but overcast and cool. Max: 15C Lotto WEDNESDAYS DRAW 09 12 15 17 31 39 Bonus: 34 Plus 1: 05 07 20 21 33 45 Bonus: 30 Plus 2: 06 10 11 14 16 20 Bonus: 08 metro Weather Father Jack actor Frank Kelly admires a copy of The Man Inside The Jacket, with its author, Mr Tayto. The actor will tour Ireland as literary agent to the crisp legend to publicise the book, which goes on sale this weekend Picture: Jason Clarke Photography literary crunch 7.5m lift for finance sector A NEW maths and computation research project aimed at enhancing the financial services industry will receive more than 7.5million in State funds. The funding will be distributed through Science Foundation Ireland, with both universities and industry involved in the project. Announcing the funding, Tnaiste Mary Coughlan said the Irish Financial Services Centre currently generates approximately 22billion in service exports annually. Ms Coughlan said the creation of the new Strategic Research Cluster built on this and dispelled any notion that scientific research was removed from day-to-day economic activities. BY SARAH STACK harney gives her backing to hSe bossMINISTER for Health Mary Harney yesterday maintained a lucrative 70,000 bonus to the countrys health chief was nothing to do with her. Unions and opposition parties hit out at the payment to Professor Brendan Drumm when hospital budgets are being slashed, beds being closed and nurses threatening industrial action. The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) claimed the bonus payment to the chief executive of the Health Service Execu- tive (HSE) could have been used to em- ploy two new nurses. Fine Gael said the figure was unjustifi- able. A 70,000 bonus, twice the aver- age industrial wage, on top of a 320,000 salary for the head of our broken health service is outrageous at a time when 300 patients were lying on trolleys around the country, said the partys health spokesman Dr James Reilly. Ms Harney said the approval of the bo- nus was not a matter for her as Minister of Health. The last thing we need is a meddling minister getting involved in contractual issues around individuals, said Ms Harney. This is a matter for the board of the HSE. Prof Drumm became chief executive of the new HSE in August of 2005 with the aim of reforming the health system. But as the States coffers plummeted the health service was hit with massive budget cuts. Last month, Prof Drumm warned next years funding would be cut by a further 800million. The HSE confirmed the performance- related award was approved in 2007, adding it had suspended any awards for 2008. This is the most recent example of the blatant double standards which are now the norm in Irish society, said INO gen- eral secretary Liam Doran. Tnaiste: Funding metro Thursday, October 15, 2009 D index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html28.html29.html30.html31.html