Eir's parent company, France-based Iliad, said that Vodafone rejected a revised offer to combine the two companies’ Italian businesses, ending its bid to consolidate in one of Europe’s most competitive telecom markets.
It’s the day after Storm Isha has wreaked havoc across the west of Ireland – and Maeve O’Malley, Eir’s recently-appointed wholesale managing director, is sitting at a large conference table in the sole remaining Eir office headquarter building, next to Heuston Station.
Question: I had a landline and broadband service with Eir for many years, but because I was charged €78 a month, I switched to Vodafone in November to get the same deal for €45.
From the dancing solicitor to the “intimidating” landlord, and the mass sacking of keg lorry drivers to the maimed garda sergeant “being left to sit and rot” in the office, here are the most notable Work Relations Commission hearings of the year.