Rebab group to create 400 jobs in Ireland, and more abroad
The Rehab Group, which provides support services and job opportunity for disabled people, has announced plans to recruit 750 staff in its operations over the next three years.
Rehab to create 750 jobs worldwide. Over 400 of those positions will be based in Ireland.
The Rehab Group currently employs over 3,500 people with 2,500 based in Ireland and another 1,000 in the UK, Poland and the Netherlands.
The new posts will be in the areas of training, education, health and social care, IT, sales and marketing, management and administration.
The jobs are open to anybody including people with disabilities, who are particularly encouraged to apply.
”Our overriding objective is to improve the lives of the people we support and to provide sustainable employment for our staff both with and without disabilities,” commented Angela Kerins, chief executive of the Rehab Group.
“Rehab is an Irish organisation which had success in its original field and branched out to new sectors creating large scale employment”, commented the Minister for Jobs, Richard Bruton, at today’s announcement.
Rehab is Ireland’s biggest provider of jobs for disabled people and runs a number of businesses in each of the four countries in which it operates. It is Ireland’s largest processor of glass for recyling and operates a retail business and an international logistics business.
The Punt is back? But only in Clones, Co Monaghan Ireland
‘pay in punts & beat the recession’
Shopkeepers in the border town of Clones in Ireland are offering to trade in the near obsolete punt to try and turn the clock back on the recession and euro currency crisis.
Even though the old notes and coins of the Republic are no longer legal tender, 42 businesses in Clones, Co Monaghan, are willing to accept them as payment and exchange them in the Central Bank.
The Embrace the Punt campaign has been championed for the last two months by Tony Morgan, who runs the Liptons store and has taken in about IR£1,000 since.
“It’s going to be running for us for five years I’d say – I think it’s long-term,” he said.
The idea came from his son Ciaran who saw reports on the Spanish fishing village of Mugardos where 60 local stores had reintroduced the peseta.
The Central Bank said at the end of 2010 there were €238 million in Irish banknotes outstanding and €125.5 million worth of coins outstanding.
The exchange rate being offered in Clones matches the value of the euro when it was introduced in 2002 – €1.27 to the punt, although coinage is only being taken on an even money basis.
Shops in Clones accepting the old currency include major retail outlet Supervalu and locals are convinced that it is attracting people to the town who would never have travelled before.
Mr Morgan said he dealt with a couple who live eight miles away over the border in Belturbet, Northern Ireland, but who had never set foot in Clones in their lives.
The next initiative by shopkeepers is to take the campaign online with a YouTube video promoting the currency exchange – most businesses now offer to take euro and sterling as well as the old punt.
“We couldn’t have bought better publicity and advertising,” Mr Morgan said.
“There are always people coming home on holidays, people who are in London, abroad, they’ve emigrated and they can come down to the shop and spend.
“The fact that 42 businesses have taken it on shows that it’s a runner.
“Mind you, if I had suggested in the town to bring back the punt on my own they would have sent some boys out with a straitjacket for me.
“There’s a bit of positivity for a change around the country.
“It’s so negative – we are talking to each other in the chamber of commerce meeting and they are a bit more light-hearted.”
To give an idea of how many punts are being returned nationally, the Central Bank said it took in IR£1,803,760, or €2.29 million worth of notes, and IR£246,962.30, or €313,577.43 worth of coins, in the first 11 months of last year.
‘New Irish legislation’ to enable single mothers to have fathers name on child’s birth cert
Single mothers will be obliged to name the father of their child on their birth certificates, under new legislation.
Social Protection Minister Joan Burton is introducing the law following recommendations from the Law Reform Commission.
It says every child has a right to know who both its parents are.
Around 4,000 children do not have their father named on their birth cert every year.
The Law Reform Commission says there are a number of reasons for this – some single mothers wrongly believe naming the father will affect their social welfare benefits, whilst others think it will give the father automatic access rights – which is also incorrect.
The Commission has recommended that single mothers should have to name the father – to strengthen the right of the child to know their parents.
And its warned that without this new law – there is a risk of two people growing up and starting a relationship together – without knowing they are related.
However there will have to be some exemptions for mothers who do not know who the father is, or for mothers who fear for their safety if the father is notified.
According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the 4,166 children born in 2007 without their father’s name on the birth certificate accounted for around 6pc of the 70,620 children born that year.
In 2008 4,102 children did not have their father’s name on their birth cert — although 495 of these children had their father’s name added later in the year.
Gardai dismantle the last occupy Galway protest camp from Eyres Square
THE GALWAY GARDAI ALONG WITH COUNCIL AUTHORITIES HAVE REMOVED THE LAST CAMP OF PROTESTERS FROM IRELAND’S OCCUPY CAMP IN GALWAY.
Officials moved in to remove Occupy Galway activists from Eyre Square at about 4.30am on Wednesday.
Six men were in the camp, which was established almost seven months ago, when gardai began the operation.
A garda spokesman said one man was arrested for a public order offence.
Galway City Council had raised concerns that the camp should be removed before the Volvo Ocean Race grand finale next month.
The largest Occupy camp, outside the Central Bank on Dame Street in Dublin, was dismantled in March ahead of St Patrick’s festivities.
Protesters had been camping at the site since last October to object to corporate greed and in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protest and similar movements around the world.
Yes it’s nature, not nurture: A study shows our personality lies in the genes,
Study of twins reveals
Nature rather than nurture is responsible for creating your personality, according to a study of twins which found that character is something you are born with.
Genes play a greater role in determining key personality traits like social skills and learning ability than the way we are brought up by our parents, researchers claimed.
The findings contradict the existing belief among psychologists that the environment we grow up in plays a larger role than genetics in shaping our personality.
Researchers from Edinburg University studied more than 800 sets of identical and non-identical twins to learn whether genetics or upbringing has a greater effect on how successful people are in life.
Twins are useful in such studies because almost all twins share the same home environment as each other, but only identical twins share exactly the same genetics.
Participants were asked a series of questions about how they perceive themselves and others, such as “are you influenced by people with strong opinions?”
By applying their answers to a well-established scale of psychological scale, researchers could assess and categorise different personality traits for each person.
Writing in the Journal of Personality, the researchers found that identical twins were twice as likely as non-identical twins to share the same personality traits, suggesting that their DNA was having the greatest impact.
Genetics were most influential on people’s sense of self-control and also affected their social and learning abilities and their sense of purpose.
Prof Timothy Bates, who led the study, said: “Previously, the role of family and the environment around the home often dominated people’s ideas about what affected psychological wellbeing. However, this work highlights a much more powerful influence from genetics.”
The study was focused on personality traits which contribute to our chances of success in life by dictating whether, for example, how determined we are to overcome challenges.
Prof Bates said: “If you think of things that people are born with you think of social status or virtuoso talent, but this is looking at what we do with what we’ve got.
“The biggest factor we found was self control. There was a big genetic difference in [people's ability to] restrain themselves and persist with things when they got difficult and react to challenges in a positive way.”
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