D Wednesday, November 25, 2009 METRO Over 55,000 people have already come back. They came back for great service and the widest range of great value packages, like our new fixed price bundle. Call us today and find out why you should switch. Were always there to help. 1800 431 432 or eircom.net/switch Subject to availability. Terms and Conditions apply. 56,265 residential and business accounts have switched back from 01.09.08 to 31.08.09. Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, 15, strikes a pose in Londons Leicester Square last night at the film premire of The Lovely Bones. Based on a bestselling novel, it centres on a young girl who is murdered in her hometown and watches events unfold from heaven. Directed by Peter Jackson and co-starring Mark Wahlberg, it is tipped to be Oscar nominated in January Picture: PA SaoirSe at boneS premire Sex abuse report due out tomorrow THE Government yesterday cleared for publication an investigation exposing child sex abuse by Catholic priests in the Dublin Archdiocese. The 700-page report will be publicly released tomorrow although it will be censored in parts so as not to prejudice ongoing or potential criminal cases. The inquiry was signed off during a Cabinet meeting yesterday. Pseudonyms will be used to protect the identities of some. Up to 450 people have made abuse allegations against former priests in the diocese since 1940. The report is expected to be critical of the Garda and other State authorities over their handling of the allegations. Coughlan could lose eU Dell fund THE multi-million-euro EU fund aimed at helping laid-off Dell workers will be lost if Minister for Enterprise Mary Coughlan does not get her act together, the Labour Party has claimed. Speaking in Strasbourg with the Dell Workers Representative Group yesterday, Labour MEP for Ireland South, Alan Kelly, said part of the 21million could be returned if Ms Coughlan doesnt use it. Theres only 18 months left and there is no structure for spending it. Spending 21million in that time will be a challenge, he said. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment did not return calls yesterday. the net. He also called for pay cuts for higher-earning public sector workers. The challenge is clear Ireland needs to act decisively to prevent an- other very damaging brain drain out of the country. We were there before and do not want to go there again. The finance house also advised schemes be introduced to encourage consumer spending such as car scrap- page for vehicles more than ten years old and reductions in employers PRSI to reduce the cost of labour. The property market would not re- cover until 2011 and houses prices will fall by another 15 per cent, Mr Power added, warning the economy, battling cheap Sterling, will be hit with higher interest rates in 2010 and 2011. Delay cuts... and we face bankruptcy, Lenihan toldFINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan will bankrupt the country if he contin- ues to delay tax increases and public spending cuts, a leading economist has warned. Friends Firsts Jim Power called for a five per cent cut in the social welfare pay bill to save 1billion and child benefit to be cut by a fifth saving 500million in the Budget. He said the country was in crisis and cannot afford Government spending to continue at 495million-a-week. The latest Friends First quarterly economic outlook urged the minister to look for modest increases in tax. Mr Power suggested a new carbon tax to raise more than 450million, more indirect tax on motor fuel, alco- hol and tobacco also to raise 450mil- lion and broadening the tax base to get tax exiles and lower paid workers into By ED caRTy 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