River Liffey Youll find your way quicker with Dublin Bus Thanks to improved bus priority such as Quality Bus Corridors and the College Green Bus Corridor, the bus now gets you into and around Dublin City quicker and easier than ever before - and with the new Google Maps facility on www.dublinbus.ie you can see exactly what route your bus will take and where youll find your nearest bus stop. So whether you want to go into town shopping or simply want to get to work faster, find all the route, timetable and ticket information you need at www.dublinbus.ie METRO Friday, November 13, 2009 D Ice sheet melting at increased rate A NEW study of the Greenland ice sheet suggests it is melting at an accelerating rate. British scientists used two different techniques to measure the ice caps loss. Both indicated that shrinkage of the ice sheet had been speeding up since the 1990s. The new research showed it lost 1,500 gigatonnes of mass between 2000 and 2008. However, between 2006 and 2008 the rate of loss had increased dramatically. The vast Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to raise global sea levels by up to seven metres. Bookies to create 250 new jobs BOOKMAKER Paddy Power is to create 250 jobs as it expands further into the international betting market, it announced yesterday. Some 50 new positions will open up at its Tallaght operation next summer after the company secured a five-year deal with French state-controlled horseracing betting system PMU. PMU is the largest betting organisation in Europe, with a 9.3billion turnover last year. Paddy Power bosses also pledged another 200 high-end jobs at the south Dublin headquarters by 2013. Taoiseach Brian Cowen paid tribute to Paddy Power, claiming the PMU partnership revealed the Irish bookmakers world-class expertise. By Colm Kelpie Army spent 3million on wrong helicopters A TOP civil servant yesterday reject- ed claims the Defence Forces was a Dads Army after military chiefs or- dered the wrong helicopters for peacekeeping in Chad. The Department of Defence accept- ed the embarrassing blunder but claimed senior soldiers were under pressure and signed-off on the 3mil- lion deal in a rush. It was three months before inspec- tors discovered the aircraft could not carry troops, only cargo. Tommy Broughan, Labours trans- port spokesman, said: We seem to have had a number of issues like that... Would it be fair to say that there is a general problem, that the equipment that we give our troops and our naval personal and air per- sonnel, it tends to be very antique? Its almost like a DadsArmy situa- tion in terms of 30-year-old vessels, allegedly with holes in the hulls of a number of them, this problem weve had about choppers. We always seem to be chasing the ball game, he added. But Michael Howard, secretary gen- eral at the Department of Defence, hit back and told the Dil Public Ac- counts Committee other countries taking part in peacekeeping missions were envious of some of the equip- ment used by the Defence Forces. Students from our lady of Victories National School in Ballymun at DCUs Fusion expo, a mobile exhibition designed to promote awareness in fusion and sustainable energy technology Picture: Marc OSullivan On Yer BIke 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