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According to Siptu, educators have identified an urgent need to “extend AIM support to cover all hours that a child is in the setting”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HEMEUTICLBEDHEQSPDBKCXTJLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1693424781073},"content":"“This would be from the age of 12 months and for the duration of school age childcare, in accordance with the child’s needs.” Siptu has also called for an extension of AIM to “all settings including all school-age childcare services and/or to children with additional needs other than a disability”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OYZHNR56S5BR3GTCVXPY2XC6RM","additional_properties":{"_id":1693424781074},"content":"The union has also requested “adequate funding” to start a scheme that funds targeted measures to tackle socio-economic disadvantage in education. “Much more support is needed,” for educators working in areas of concentrated socio-economic disadvantage, says the union.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FPYT4NGOYZBDTEU7XETPQDMPKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693424781075},"content":"In its fifth pre-budget recommendation, Siptu called on Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman to get his department to examine the introduction of public provisions to deal with the “insufficient supply” of early education places in certain areas of the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TO2XXLJ5M5GNHNMJ7PJWPHO66M","additional_properties":{"_id":1693424781076},"content":"Siptu says that up-to-date data is gathered by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on such geographical disparities, information which “allows Government increase capacity where it is needed”.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Nathan Johns"}},"name":"Nathan Johns"}]},"description":{"basic":"Union wants €31.2m of European Social Fund Plus Programme money for upskilling workforce to be drawn down"},"display_date":"2023-08-30T20:14:50.662Z","headlines":{"basic":"Siptu wants €200m extra in budget for pay rises for early education providers and education schemes ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"BIWGIPTJI5DWTE4MD5SU4Z3JL4","auth":{"1":"5bac445400e50e35f5b88b9b9c96940d304c526b7b5fca8c9bc5e84680e3bf41"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BIWGIPTJI5DWTE4MD5SU4Z3JL4.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Work"},{"name":"Politics"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/work/2023/08/30/siptu-wants-200m-extra-in-budget-for-pay-rises-for-early-education-providers-and-education-schemes/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/work","additional_properties":{"original":{"Podcast":{"podcast_logo":null}}},"name":"Work"}}}},{"_id":"TVEWGMCWGNGFTDW2E6KI3MMABM","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/business/financial-services/2023/08/30/irelands-colm-kelleher-was-always-meant-to-become-europes-most-powerful-banker/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SVTGU45IO5FFRBHYR5ZUJNGUYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838329},"content":"One figure on the panel of starchy Swiss politicians, regulators and financiers stood out. He was dressed in an electric-blue suit and shimmering green tie and, during the hour and a half that followed, his steeply arched eyebrows showed more emotion than the faces of his five fellow speakers combined. The press conference, in March this year, had been called to address the fate of Credit Suisse, the crisis-ridden Zürich bank that threatened the rest of Europe’s financial system. The 167-year-old institution, the panel announced, would be rescued by its biggest rival, UBS. Maybe it was only natural that Colm Kelleher, UBS’s chair, seemed to struggle to contain himself. He was being anointed Europe’s most powerful banker.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5456CJE6OBHGLMHDWPFH4Z4TU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838330},"content":"As things drew to a close, the speakers stood up and Kelleher’s open hand shot, as if spring-loaded, towards the man to his right. Axel Lehmann, the Credit Suisse chair whose stiff demeanour seemed to convey his discomfort throughout the proceedings, instinctively pulled back. But then Lehmann checked himself, and the biggest bank takeover since the global financial crisis was sealed with the most awkward handshake.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QCATOQNKJAGXLRMACP52PBXNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838331},"content":"Kelleher has long cut an unusual figure in the world of banking. He has a habit of beginning sentences by saying, “As you know”, before launching into a largely unknowable academic reference. He is a joker who once invoked Harry Potter’s bank Gringotts on an analyst call to relieve his boredom and a disciplinarian known to lock colleagues out of meetings if they are late. He is a smooth salesman with a forensic accountant’s eye for minutiae. Most of all, he’s a talker. Almost everybody in the upper echelons of finance has at least one good Colm Kelleher story.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSZNGZNIDVAHHOYFZ4RWS5MI34","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838332},"content":"At 66, Kelleher has also had a front-row seat to the biggest series of shocks to the global financial system since the 1930s. Not least of which was helping pull Morgan Stanley back from the brink after the 2008 crash, when he was its chief financial officer. His working life has been shaped by a responsibility and trauma that has burdened a very small number of executives and is little discussed, even among bankers. And yet, before UBS’s rescue of Credit Suisse, his career mostly played out in supporting roles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CLJ3NRJ65ZFVLO67OU2FS4DGUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838333},"content":"The takeover this year has thrust Kelleher centre stage. His ability to make the merger a success will have wider consequences than for just the Swiss economy, where both lenders dominate. On August 31, UBS will set out its plans for the Credit Suisse business in a delayed earnings report that will reveal how executives plan to reshape the company in greater detail. The union of Credit Suisse and UBS will have enormous bearing on the stability of global banking. Which is why it was such a shock that, when markets opened after the takeover was announced, investors began dumping UBS stock. Watching shares take their steepest plunge in 15 years, Kelleher went to work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5MZG63WHL4VVENXCT76BQWFRTI","additional_properties":{"_id":"CWFYXYHS4VFBZHNUMJPTMJ57KI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JCY6VE3P5BEOVP7JNW5URGKBLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838335},"content":"<b>Kelleher was born in 1957, one of nine children</b> to a doctor father and homemaker mother. They were an Irish family in the working-class English town of Warrington, and their roots were closely tended to. The Irish Post came in daily, sent by Kelleher’s maternal grandfather. Schooling followed Catholic orders, almost exclusively with the children of other Irish emigrants, and all eight of the brothers served as altar boys. Summers were spent in Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C34WWCQIXFC37P2J5ZSYTYVIKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838336},"content":"The Kelleher household was boisterous. There were fierce board-game rivalries and snooker tournaments on a table that doubled as a dining table. “My mother used to say we were very competitive ... in other words, poor losers,” says Niamh Paris, Colm’s older sister, recalling battles of Risk and Mille Bornes, a French card game. Kelleher declined to be interviewed for this article.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZHPMTR73NFFLBALUL3DCQISGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838337},"content":"He brought his love of strategy with him to Oriel College, Oxford, ditching the “simplistic” games of his childhood for Diplomacy, which he would play “for hours” and “very competitively,” according to a university friend. Despite initially being intimidated by the poshness of Oxford, Kelleher thrived and decided he wanted to be an academic studying Byzantine history. That would have meant staying at college longer than his father could afford to keep him. So Kelleher went into business instead, training in accountancy at Arthur Andersen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPJ6RUEEI5DEVNIOYWO4SNY5QU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838338},"content":"In 1989, he was hired by Bob Diamond to join the London office of Morgan Stanley, the illustrious Wall Street investment bank. Diamond, who later became Barclays’ crisis-era CEO, was struck by Kelleher’s enthusiasm. “He was incredibly smart, articulate, a very serious young man and very committed,” says Diamond. “That doesn’t usually come with such a wonderful sense of humour and such strong interpersonal skills.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DGKPTG6C5BJBNWABSKDGXNKIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838339},"content":"At the time, American banks had identified Europe as their next big market and London was the centre of the action, with its clubby culture of liquid lunches. “But Colm was never part of it. You didn’t see him go for long lunches. He was very serious, very focused. He could smell bullshit,” recalls John Mack, who was then head of Morgan Stanley’s fixed-income division.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7K44AFN32BA4PBCGHX4F42Z244","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838340},"content":"Kelleher’s skill with clients would propel his rise, but it was a moment of crisis in 1992 that marked him out. Diamond had just quit to join Credit Suisse and had secretly agreed to take a dozen colleagues from London, New York and Tokyo with him. They all resigned at the same moment, timed to coincide with Mack being on a 12-hour flight. The coup was a major blow to Morgan Stanley, which had to take emergency measures to ensure the London operation didn’t run out of money.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5BL6VEYZZFGTNFU22P5ETJIIWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838341},"content":"The clean-up was entrusted to Kelleher, alongside a US executive named Tom Wipf. Kelleher’s interest in people paid off in unusual ways. He made several “battlefield promotions” of junior staff that enabled a nimble response. A lot of executives wouldn’t have been as plugged into the back office, but “it was very clear that Colm had established command and control,” recalls Wipf, whom Kelleher has recently recruited to help integrate Credit Suisse’s US operations into UBS. “He knew how to establish a war room, knew how to ... direct people in a way that was not emotional.” Kelleher also proved adept at reassuring panicking clients that the bank really could meet its commitments, a skill he would employ repeatedly over the following three decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HBOVJBLPT2N7JGS4KF5B4QKRGI","additional_properties":{"_id":"VWGQQAUSLZA6HEWTTLNUTSFNCQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RH6XTINZAZDV5PRW2KAD22POSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838343},"content":"<b>In 2007, Kelleher was appointed CFO</b> of Morgan Stanley. He had spent the previous two years running the bank’s high-profile global capital markets business, where he cemented his reputation as a pragmatic operator. He had two sons and a daughter in school in London, a new flat in New York and a big job. The boy from Warrington, with its “No dogs, no Irish” signs, had made it to base camp, just below the pinnacle of Wall Street. In Kelleher’s office, a photograph of his elderly father took pride of place, reminding him of this.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YLS3ZR7QBBSRLE5HOW7RCERYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838344},"content":"As Kelleher took over, the sub-prime mortgage crisis was just beginning to rip through the US economy. Within months, Morgan Stanley’s sub-prime trading was $3.7bn in the red, and Kelleher had the unenviable task of announcing the first quarterly loss in the bank’s 72-year history. His familiarity with numbers would serve him well as the crisis metastasised. Paul C Wirth, Morgan Stanley’s financial controller at the time, recalls that, when the bank’s risk department initially underestimated sub-prime losses, “We knew it was much, much more than that.” Wirth says Kelleher was able to ask detailed, probing questions in a way other executives couldn’t, avoiding the comfortable ignorance that contributed to the severity of the crash.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ETVUMNNPPVF4RM3CM3GFWYWK4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838345},"content":"As rival Wall Street banks buckled, Kelleher raced to firm up Morgan Stanley’s balance sheet. Conference room 3F on the third floor of its Manhattan headquarters was converted into a “cash room”. Kelleher stationed a team to monitor what was coming in and going out of the bank. The room was kitted out with computers and workstations centred around an oval meeting table. Staff worked 18-hour days, amid stacks of paper that only grew taller. At one point, the amount of fast food being consumed in 3F alarmed Mack, by then CEO, and he limited deliveries to tuna sandwiches and salads. “They looked like shit, and I was worried they would keel over from the stress and their artery-clogging diet,” Mack wrote in a recently published memoir.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TME42QX42NAUPAVK4ZY2CZIPD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838346},"content":"Kelleher frequently called in on the cash room. One evening in September 2008, when Lehman Brothers was still teetering on the brink of collapse, the team in 3F informed Kelleher that hedge fund clients had pulled out more than $50bn in a single day. He went to Mack’s office. “John, I feel physically sick. I’m tasting bile in my throat,” he told his boss. “The fact is, we’ll be out of money by Friday.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPZ5SHWL6NDLFN3CNT3QCWBXXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838347},"content":"Kelleher strove to put on a stoic front. “He was carrying the weight of the financing of the firm,” recalls Mack, who nicknamed Kelleher Eeyore and, over the years, sent him some 20 stuffed toys and figurines of the eternally gloomy donkey in <i>Winnie the Pooh</i>. “I would go in his office and say, ‘We are all stressed here, but when you come out you can’t be Eeyore.’ Part of leadership is putting forward an optimistic face,” says Mack.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3467N6XQ5BUNPWNDMDIIYBCBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838348},"content":"But in private, Kelleher couldn’t help but let his guard down. At times, to shut out the meltdown, he zeroed in on his Blackberry’s tiny screen as he tried to beat his BrickBreaker high score over and over. He frequently slept on the couch in his office and, over several months, put on 35lb. “I saw him despondent and in tears on particular nights,” says Wirth, recalling occasions in the CFO’s 40th-floor office when it was just the two of them. Eventually Mack and Kelleher engineered a $9bn capital injection from MUFG, the Japanese bank, that ensured Morgan Stanley’s survival.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5J26HFZCI5AMXOODLRL7J7DHSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838349},"content":"Before Morgan Stanley was out of the woods, Kelleher’s 86-year-old father became gravely ill. After being convinced to return to Warrington by colleagues, Kelleher kept a vigil by his father’s bed in his final days, then worked into the night from his hotel room, making calls to New York and racking up a huge phone bill to keep on top of Morgan Stanley’s perilous state. Kelleher was there when his father died not long after.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSAOXEQJUBGWPO6NMZ5T2BGBHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838350},"content":"Kelleher has told friends that he has suffered from post-traumatic stress from this period. He believes that Morgan Stanley was “as close to the brink as possible,” according to one of them, and that if it had gone under, the financial crisis couldn’t have been stopped. He worried about being the CFO of a failed bank and spending years defending himself in court. “Post-crisis, he was extremely candid with people about the impact that being so central in the financial crisis had on him, and how he dealt with that,” says Clare Woodman, a high-ranking MS executive. “He was very open and honest before there was so much focus on wellness.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4PUUU7A67VFEDG7ICWWMVGH2MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838351},"content":"By 2009, Mack was ready to retire and had two potential successors: Kelleher and James Gorman, a straight-talking Australian who ran Morgan Stanley’s wealth business. The pair enjoyed a friendly rivalry. Each had been groomed by Mack to take over. But both men were in their early 50s, meaning whoever got the top job was unlikely to retire before the other. When Gorman was named Mack’s successor, Kelleher knew he would never be Morgan Stanley’s CEO, a position he had coveted for more than decade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MF4HRPZNFGX5BVRYZDCCBZ7VQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838352},"content":"A lot of executives would have moved on, but Kelleher stayed. He spent the next decade working alongside Gorman to reshape the business. “We share a common outlook and approach,” says Gorman, who is also of Irish descent. “I don’t know if it’s cultural or DNA, but you’re simpatico with people who come with a similar mindset to life, and we do.” Kelleher, he notes, “was not nakedly ambitious, like many on Wall Street”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3PJVRZY5J5HO3HTPQBWSFHKCCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838353},"content":"In 2019, when Kelleher turned 62, he decided to leave. He’d wanted to travel in Ireland, but the Kellehers spent most of the Covid-19 lockdowns at their estate in Tuscany, a hilltop villa with views of the surrounding countryside. A typical day began with an hour’s exercise before breakfast, followed by two hours of piano practice and an afternoon ploughing through Edward Gibbon’s multi-volume <i>The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</i>, which he hadn’t managed to finish at Oxford.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVVTATEHLBHZ3ACYOTP7W56THA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838354},"content":"Kelleher also used his time away to walk some 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the religious pilgrimage across northern Spain, with one of his younger brothers. They dedicated the trip to the memory of their parents, and Kelleher used the walk to raise more than $330,000 for charity. With the local wines on offer not up to his normal standards, the oenophile Kelleher restricted himself to a hip-flask of watered-down Jim Beam. But he felt he had unfinished business in the banking world, and headhunters’ inquiries started to break through.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PH3NZYHXFASDL4CESLSBLV7H34","additional_properties":{"_id":"GX5XABQROVBWHBUAZU3CKS2JEQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JPQTJMCUC5FV3H3XMZ6OC3ESCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838356},"content":"<b>Kelleher was dumbstruck for two whole</b> minutes. It was March 2023, and he had just received the call he had been dreading. His mind raced back a decade and a half. After hanging up and putting his mobile back into his jacket pocket, he re-entered the meeting room he’d left to take the call. Two of his most-trusted advisers looked up at him. From his face, they knew exactly what he had been told. “I can’t believe this is happening again,” Kelleher murmured.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7BYAGRLFFC7DMKECQ4XEXOBUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838357},"content":"Kelleher had been hired a year earlier to lead UBS, succeeding long-time chair Axel Weber. The board of the largest global private bank had wanted a Swiss national to take the chair’s role, someone with a strong international reputation. In addition, the ideal candidate would have experience with wealth management and investment banking, the group’s two main business lines. Headhunters Egon Zehnder had struggled to find any Swiss candidates who fitted the bill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSZGWY3DB5CMJD4UZURKIQQH5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838358},"content":"In every respect but his nationality, Kelleher was a match. The UBS role was not the first opportunity that had come his way while he was in semi-retirement. He had been put forward as chair of German lender Deutsche Bank by private equity group Cerberus as part of a botched attempt to take control of the German lender’s board. He had also been approached about taking the same role at Credit Suisse but decided the bank was too much of a mess. UBS, in contrast, was the only European bank with prestige similar to Morgan Stanley. It might allow Kelleher to achieve what he’d once dreamt of.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WVZYNLBUOBGQPEZQEAUFT5OFJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838359},"content":"When UBS’s board was presented with two candidates, Kelleher and Dominic Barton, the former global head of consulting group McKinsey, it voted unanimously for Kelleher. Lukas Gähwiler, a long-time Swiss banker, was appointed vice chair. His close ties to Switzerland’s political and business elite, the board surmised, would help the Irishman navigate Zurich’s tight-knit finance community.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5T7AQOGCZZFTLA5ZTSAKRMC3HY","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838360},"content":"The Kellehers moved into the Zürich apartment a few blocks from UBS’s headquarters that had just been vacated by Weber. In order to ingratiate himself with his new Swiss colleagues, Kelleher read up on the country’s history and spontaneously digressed on the architecture of the city’s cathedrals when walking to meetings. His sense of humour sometimes got lost in translation. Swiss directors often asked British and American colleagues to clarify whether the chair actually meant what he had just said. In the boardroom, Kelleher kept executives on their toes. “You never want to bring something to him without understanding the details, otherwise you will be sent back to do some more work,” says a person who meets Kelleher regularly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P2FDQRPWPNFN7CYJ5YA6PW6RKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838361},"content":"From the start, Gähwiler insisted UBS should be prepared for the collapse of Credit Suisse. The once-venerable financial institution, which had been at the heart of the Swiss economy since its industrial revolution, had limped from one scandal to the next in recent years. Before jumping to UBS, Gähwiler had worked for Credit Suisse for 20 years and had grown increasingly worried about what he saw. In the previous year alone, Credit Suisse had been forced to close a $10bn suite of funds following the collapse of finance firm Greensill Capital; suffered a $5.5bn trading loss on the implosion of family office Archegos; and become the first Swiss bank to face criminal charges over dealings with a group of cocaine-smuggling Bulgarian ex-wrestlers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPG3KVYSN5C5XF2T2OA677W2Q4","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838362},"content":"Everyone could see that Credit Suisse was in a perilous state by the middle of 2022, when the board promised a dramatic restructuring. In October, before the new strategy was announced, social media rumours about the bank’s imminent demise prompted customers to withdraw tens of billions of dollars. When the bank’s management team finally announced a turnaround plan a few weeks later, investors were severely underwhelmed. Day after day, the bank’s shares hit new lows, while clients continued to pull out their savings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F6TPOIJFQNBWPLUXVPP4B6EPHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838363},"content":"Months of secret preparation had gone into making sure that UBS would not be taken by surprise","type":"text"},{"_id":"CDXIESDPANB33CJMJYQ6ADY4NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838364},"content":"Gähwiler and Kelleher agreed they needed a contingency plan. Kelleher enlisted Morgan Stanley to act as advisers to the board and begin to prepare the ground for a potential takeover. A strategy committee consisting of Kelleher and four other directors was tasked with monitoring the unfolding situation at Credit Suisse. UBS’s management team was also asked to provide a detailed analysis of the impact a rescue of Credit Suisse would have on UBS. Just as the collapse of Bear Stearns in 2008 had prompted Kelleher to batten down the hatches before Morgan Stanley’s own near-death experience six months later, he was again preparing for the worst.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWXJDT3FDJEYRK6CO2EE2RPGD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838365},"content":"Despite all the preparation, Kelleher was convinced that another European lender would swoop in to buy Credit Suisse. He believed the Swiss authorities would insist on maintaining two global banks, even if it meant one fell into foreign ownership. All that changed with the collapse of regional US lender Silicon Valley Bank on March 10 2023. The failure sent shock waves through the global banking system and jolted confidence in the biggest financial institutions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRHAS35YLJA4XG4OOBA66557I4","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838366},"content":"Then came the call. Kelleher, Gähwiler and Markus Baumann, the company secretary, were meeting their advisers when the phone interrupted them. It was Thomas Hirschi, head of banking at Swiss financial regulator Finma, on the line. Hirschi told Kelleher he wanted a delegation of UBS managers to come to Finma’s Zürich offices two hours later and begin discussions with Swiss officials about rescuing Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse shares had fallen 30 per cent that day, having dropped 85 per cent over the previous two years. Executives were pleading with the authorities for a credit lifeline, as well as a public show of support that the bank would not be allowed to fail. Otherwise, it would go bust within days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNRGK7NJKFCYBDEIAW4TDLUPTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838367},"content":"Two hours later, Kelleher and his team arrived at the regulator’s tired-looking office block in central Zürich. Inside, they were led into a ground-floor room numbered 101. The unintentional reference to Room 101, the torture chamber located within the Ministry of Love in George Orwell’s <i>1984</i>, wasn’t lost on Kelleher. He was flanked by Gähwiler, Baumann and UBS’s general counsel, Barbara Levi. In Kelleher’s hand was a single A4 sheet of paper, setting out the 11 terms on which his bank would be willing to step in. Months of secret preparation had gone into making sure UBS would not be taken by surprise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OYBM2TGUQZCWBKSPKRXDAGIPAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838368},"content":"Meeting the UBS contingent were the heads of Switzerland’s three main financial authorities, including Karin Keller-Sutter, head of the finance ministry. Before any pleasantries could be exchanged, Keller-Sutter got right down to business: “We have decided that Credit Suisse is no longer viable,” she began. “We have two choices: resolution [winding down the bank] or you have to step in to do a deal. We trust UBS will do the right thing.” (The Swiss finance ministry said it could not confirm details of its dealings with the banks.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"GX7T5ETNVRBLVGAHGUINE4OGRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838369},"content":"Over the next hour, the Swiss authorities agreed to UBS’s broad terms for rescuing Credit Suisse. These included granting regulatory approvals for the takeover, providing liquidity support and offering protection against losses. Both sides agreed a final deal would need to be signed and announced by Sunday evening to make sure that, when Asian markets opened later that night, there was clarity about Credit Suisse’s fate. Kelleher and the UBS board had less than 100 hours to make the details of the deal work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T2NE4CCCEBCYRNT5VU5N4TP2V4","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838370},"content":"The following four days were a continuous stream of meetings, negotiations with Swiss authorities and internal briefings as more details about Credit Suisse’s instability came to light. UBS’s Bahnhofstrasse headquarters became the nerve centre of the operation. An ever-increasing number of executives, lawyers and advisers were drafted in to work on the finer points of the mammoth transaction. Up to 10 different groups were set up to tackle different parts of the deal; some staff worked in 48-hour shifts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHG7FEXYSBENLAN5X7NVREMKQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838371},"content":"Yet, unlike at Morgan Stanley 15 years earlier, Kelleher was not forced to sleep in his office. He managed to escape from the office on the night of St Patrick’s Day to celebrate at a nearby Irish pub named after James Joyce. Before he had finished his pint of Guinness, he was dragged back by his chief of staff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTGLHGVTT5FU5EBORN2NDUV3CI","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838372},"content":"Communication between the two banks had been minimal over the previous few days, with government officials acting as intermediaries. But as negotiations progressed, the Credit Suisse camp grew increasingly exasperated that UBS was demanding too much. At one point, Credit Suisse chair Axel Lehmann wrote to Kelleher outlining his bank’s concerns over the proposed deal. Having read the note, Kelleher called Lehmann and gave him an ultimatum: UBS would pay just $1bn for Credit Suisse, take it or leave it. A year earlier, Credit Suisse’s market capitalisation was more than $25bn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WDCISBYO5JHWPEBTN7PLI7ORVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838373},"content":"Early on Sunday morning, Kelleher, along with an entourage of UBS executives and board members, travelled to Bern, the Swiss capital. They were due to meet the Federal Council, the seven-member collective head of the Swiss state, at 9am to finalise the deal. They were kept waiting until 10.40am. When the meeting finally began, Kelleher assured the cabinet members that UBS would do what was necessary, as long as it was in the interests of his bank’s stakeholders. The takeover received the government’s backing; all that needed to be confirmed was the price.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3UEZVM6M25BRLBA5GSX5FAO2YA","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838374},"content":"Throughout Sunday afternoon, Kelleher and Ralph Hamers, UBS’s CEO, holed up in Bern as both sides’ negotiators locked horns. Kelleher did not pass the time playing on his phone. Instead, he spent hours doing Monte Carlo simulations in his head, trying to work out where the deal could fall apart and what might go wrong. UBS’s lowball bid gradually rose to just over $3.4bn, a number both sides could live with.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CTSUHP7TMFE3VCBWLP4XLHBZ6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838375},"content":"After the awkward handshake press conference announcing it all, Kelleher was driven back to Zürich in his Porsche Macan, a vehicle chosen to balance comfort with a desire to avoid appearing too ostentatious in Calvinist Switzerland. During the trip, he listened in on a call with analysts in which Hamers and the chief financial officer broke out the details. Around the world, UBS’s biggest shareholders were also tuning in and they were not impressed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZORHM2SPQWNZDXAG5RGDBE6VRI","additional_properties":{"_id":"BTZDDER4PBBS5LVQH2G7IQN6LI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6T362DUEDRFKDI3F5ZOOIV72RU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838377},"content":"<b>UBS’s decision to bail out its long-time</b> competitor won plaudits from central bankers and politicians. But the takeover has proven unpopular in Switzerland. The prospect of mass job cuts and branch closures has been a contentious issue in advance of national elections this autumn. In opinion polls, three-quarters of voters say they want the combined bank broken up. Some Swiss parliamentarians have voted against the government financial-support package underpinning the deal, while others have drawn up plans to prevent its balance sheet from dwarfing Switzerland’s GDP.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GWDDXIJVBFGNFEQ5NTHUEDXC6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838378},"content":"An army of lawyers around the world are poring over the hastily worked-out details, trying to find weak spots to launch suits on behalf of investors and clients who lost out on Credit Suisse’s collapse. All the while, present and former senior executives from both UBS and Credit Suisse, along with government ministers and regulators, will be expected to give sworn testimony as part of a parliamentary inquiry into the downfall of Credit Suisse over the coming months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WXTQBHOFYBAPJMTVOCDTJOVIKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838379},"content":"Kelleher gave an early indication of how he will deal with the onslaught coming his way the morning after the deal was signed, as UBS shares sank. For most of the day, Kelleher tried to reassure investors that the bank had negotiated enough of a safety net from the Swiss authorities to ensure that the deal would be a success in the long term. He made time for a call to one person not among the bank’s biggest shareholders, the beginning of a plan he would later code name Operation El Toro.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7RLCQ5KSZGMPIITVXB35WOLSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838380},"content":"Over the last weekend of March this year, as the UBS board discussed who within the bank’s executive team would play a role in the huge integration process that lay ahead, some directors expressed their doubts about the ability of CEO Hamers and CFO Sarah Youngwood to oversee one of the most complicated bank mergers in history. Ever since Hamers had started at UBS two and a half years earlier, there had been questions about his suitability. Kelleher’s predecessor had hired him for his knowledge of technology, overlooking his lack of experience running wealth management or investment banking businesses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J26MGMCZTVD5DJ6OFUFDH3HFSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838381},"content":"At first, Kelleher tried to coach Hamers to perform better in front of shareholders. Kelleher banned him from using management buzzwords and got him to simplify his message. One fund manager who met Kelleher and Hamers during this period described the chair as the “alpha male” in the room, who would dominate the conversation and only allow his chief executive to speak when fielding follow-up questions. Without the takeover, Hamers would have been given another year to prove he could take the business forward, according to a person familiar with the relationship. But suddenly the job seemed too big for him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H4ULXNUPCZBDBJU5LIKGXGJ274","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838382},"content":"From the moment Kelleher moved to Zürich, he had sought the advice of Sergio Ermotti, the former UBS chief executive who had led the group from a huge rogue-trading scandal in 2011 to becoming one of the most profitable banks in Europe. (Ermotti cuts an imposing figure with his athletic build and sharp suits.) Kelleher asked for his views on the bank, its strategy and executive team. There was a running joke between the two men that, at some point in the future, Ermotti would be skiing down the slopes of St Moritz when a DHL parcel would arrive containing his contract to return to UBS. Now that time had come.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UQWD22VDZEAXAKA6FWZITBZAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838383},"content":"Kelleher phoned Ermotti and asked if they could meet the following evening. With the deal announcement having been broadcast on Swiss national television, Kelleher was beginning to be recognised on the streets of Zürich. So they agreed that rather than meeting in public, they would go to Gähwiler’s home for dinner. The vice chair would join them, though Kelleher and Gähwiler made sure to take separate vehicles to avoid arousing suspicion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKLMUIUQYFGX5KNLPTGNXME7QQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838384},"content":"Over a meal and two bottles of expensive Chianti, the trio discussed whether Ermotti would be willing to return. The Swiss government had already been lining Ermotti up to become chair of Credit Suisse in case it had to nationalise the bank should the UBS deal fall through. Hamers agreed to step down. A few days later, having received board approval, Ermotti was installed as chief executive with a mission to ensure the takeover of Credit Suisse was a success.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H7VMORMGYVEB5EWYPM4XAV3V64","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838385},"content":"Only two weeks had passed since Kelleher received the call from Thomas Hirschi of Finma. He had dreaded it but, hardened by the 2008 crisis, he had been ready. When his initial plan faltered, a contingency was already in progress. In a fortnight, Kelleher had negotiated the most important banking deal of the past decade and a half, staunching a spreading banking crisis, and ruthlessly replaced his own chief executive, staunching a revolt among UBS shareholders.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I5XPMAOF5BAB5A5DLGWGFPDNUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838386},"content":"On Thursday morning, UBS will announce its half-year results. Over the past five months, the group’s shares have shot up 30 per cent, as many investors have gradually been convinced that the deal will create the global banking behemoth Kelleher and Ermotti have promised. This time, Ermotti will be the one telling shareholders how he and Kelleher intend to steer the combined business in the long term. Kelleher will not be front and centre. Europe’s most powerful banker will revert to his more natural role, directing events from the sidelines.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FC4G36EI4ZAA5MWXSOZVQJUF3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1693378838387},"content":"<i>Laura Noonan is the FT’s financial regulation editor. 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Gen Z “are quick to judge and will use social media ...[They] can sniff out greenwashing way ahead”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVUMGG2SGBEQNCJON4RYZOPG2E","additional_properties":{"_id":"P7IXIYQQU5CS3FW7QQO7JMRFHM"},"content":"New greenwashing law backed by most Irish people - survey","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SUXYKFG6YJHYZAZPSA5EUCTEJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1692784511772},"content":"Katy Jarratt, a consultant at recruiter Spencer Stuart, said businesses were becoming aware that younger employees would be key to developing solutions for climate change.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PAWFV4R4XBEEFJHB3YWOBO4ELI","additional_properties":{"_id":1692784511773},"content":"“The people who understand the technology that is going to change the dial on climate change are this age,” she says. 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Employees who feel they are considered unreasonable because of their concerns about climate change “are going to feel excluded and leave the company”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5CY6LDGDBFGMNH4RSY7KXASOSY","additional_properties":{"_id":"QQWORBIIT5CDZN6O7PXKMIRB5I"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"EXELCZKMB5BCJJ7QBHNOK4DU4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1692784511778},"content":"A survey of 2,000 UK office workers from OnePoll on behalf of Supercritical, a company focused on carbon removal, last year found more than half of 18-24-year-old workers would consider leaving an employer based on net zero credentials, compared with about a third across all age groups.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDMR4PH3PRFOPK32EWL32DQMF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1692784511779},"content":"Ben Tolhurst, director of Business Declares, a network focused on climate change, says companies also need to provide clarity and guidance to employees who want to take part in climate protests, saying many were concerned about how such action will be viewed by their employers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B3R75BOU2VGDFDCXXD46E5BZV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1692784511780},"content":"It is “something that greater numbers of employees and business leaders are considering”, says Tolhurst. 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They will be deemed unacceptable if contrary to equality laws or if they could reasonably be interpreted as offensive to members of the public or colleagues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FT6VLHWLVRHEZE4FCZ2WDCU7LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122825},"content":"All applicants are required to supply photographs of their tattoos as a condition of the recruitment process.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSMRH5OW3RBE5M45RMUKSOHHBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122826},"content":"A spokesman for the Health Service Executive said it has “no tattooing policy for staff”. No one has been fired or failed the recruitment process due to having visible tattoos, he added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4AATRMCHBBBBP4DBAW7U3MYMY","additional_properties":{"_id":"AD242Z6VJNBAJPA5UM7NYAYDOM"},"content":"Tattoos have reached a turning point at work","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CGTOZXVSENGADEJHSOG5BXGWCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122827},"content":"Aircraft passengers may have noticed that the hands pointing to exits to their left and right are free from ink designs. Ryanair and Aer Lingus both stipulate that tattoos should be not visible when staff are in uniform.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNGMA7LRCJDUNBYX4VHNQX7DLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122828},"content":"However, Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic airline announced in May of last year that it was doing away with its no-show policy. The move to allow cabin crew to “show off their ink to the world” was part of the airline’s campaign aimed at championing its people’s individuality and uniqueness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YLETHVM45CFBO72BMPPNBBQLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"6FHQRB25XFCZ7G6ZM6OI2BRJEM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JM6OZ2425FGVXPTTE6JGNHQRMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122829},"content":"Meanwhile, there has been a “definite shift” in how professional services companies approach visible tattoos, according to Trayc Keevans, who is the Irish-based global research director at recruitment agency Morgan McKinley.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CP4OHTR6KBF57I7UY43FLMMEAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1692391380850},"content":"‘More open’","type":"header"},{"_id":"FKLAQVRG5NGKHA3XJI5HZDYFBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122830},"content":"Businesses particularly concerned with “diversity, equity and inclusion” targets, are “more open” in their approach as “they see tattoos as a form of expression”, she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IOTJQQ7MWVG43KEH2CKMBROZEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122831},"content":"Tattoo policies, if in place, are contained in employee handbooks rather than in recruitment advertisements, so jobseekers tend not to know up front if theirs will be a problem, she goes on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"47QY7WYPBZH4PA4C2TYSSAWHHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122832},"content":"Anyone with visible words or symbols that express political views could run into issues, Ms Keevans adds. The same applies to people with large neck and face tattoos seeking client-facing roles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EO6IINV34BGINGMVPRSVAOHWKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122833},"content":"The more traditional sectors, such as finance, may be stricter in their policies concerning staff who meet clients, while “pretty much anything goes” for many design and technology roles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JIONEZWBFVDW7HND7NKE6UPSSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122834},"content":"Most companies are focused on an interviewee’s skills rather than their skin, she adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FBAII24PO5GYDLGW5MP2NKXX6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122835},"content":"One has to squint to see the tattoos on Fionnuala Coffey’s hands. The interweaving patterns across the back of her hand are in a white ink that largely blends into her skin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HU2CA7TE5F4BLOAEW6SC2BE7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122836},"content":"Regardless, a tattoo’s prominence would certainly not be a stain on her role as manager of Connected Ink tattoo parlour in Dublin’s Temple Bar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEDJBTSFDVGJ5N5V6VDGREJOKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122837},"content":"Ms Coffey, who has worked in the trade for nearly 20 years, says it used to be that only people already covered in ink would request a new piece on “jobstopper” areas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UR6OUFC7ZF25NLH6DZZWRYESI","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122838},"content":"Now, because of pop star trends and social media, more people, especially younger women, come in seeking small designs on their hands or neck as their first tattoo, she says. Tiny prints on these areas age badly due to exposure to the elements, she adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7G55CVJXVCANFBNEX2FYAMIUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1692391380860},"content":"Consent form","type":"header"},{"_id":"LVXJT4HBQBCFRDQ3NAUHUFSJAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122839},"content":"The parlour requires people to sign an additional consent form before proceeding to ink visible areas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMUP2R5UYVFRHFPZUMMX3OIZN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122840},"content":"“They are adults and there are so many tattoo shops in this area. They can easily walk into another shop,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MLC3W33G2BDZ3N2NWQB6MBJ7OI","additional_properties":{"_id":"2OK6CSFD7NHS3HX3OKA6SB562Y"},"content":"More than skin deep: Meet the female tattoo artists creating a more inclusive space for clients","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WIPDSBD3OBAO7CI7HI5PE6LAWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122841},"content":"She cautions these young people that it could narrow their job opportunities or be a bad look if they ever find themselves in court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R753EYI7EVDNDEEKLGU2OZJFJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122842},"content":"No such warning was needed for one recent client: a woman in her 80s who came from her retirement home to get a large bluebird on her hand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MZCTYNBVVVGONARB5RJYW6T2FE","additional_properties":{"_id":1692287122843},"content":"Grinning, Ms Coffey adds: “If any 80-year-old comes in wanting a hand tattoo we will just rock‘n’roll.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GBOAXWUO5E5BGI2WZ5VO6PWCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1692354184054},"content":"<b>Appearance matters: Garda rules go beyond tattoos</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"XRZ7GZ2UJZC5RJN5QZHPLRGSO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1692354184055},"content":"The policing of Garda appearances goes far beyond any patterns on their skin, as the organisation’s dress code emphasises the need to look smart, neat and professional when on duty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UNAD2OFDZNGBPM4B5GFJ4ORTIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1692354184056},"content":"Gardaí are not allowed to dye their hair “conspicuously unnatural colours”, while men must keep theirs short, tidy and above the ears.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PPOH7HIB7NFF5FKWKXFTF5M76E","additional_properties":{"_id":1692354184057},"content":"Make-up may be worn but “must not under any circumstance be excessive”. 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However, beards must be between 0.5cm and 2cm in bulk, and “no portion of moustache will extend beyond the corners of the mouth or fall below a line parallel with the bottom of the lower lip”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AIFKOIQQLBAM5BIQRSWDNKJMAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1692354184059},"content":"An unshaven or stubbly look is “unacceptable”, the policy states, so those aspiring to a beard must begin growing it during annual leave or rest days so they do not appear unprofessional during the initial growth stage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KFBM6WZSKNBVLLZOLLFQYD64GE","additional_properties":{"_id":1692354184060},"content":"The issue of garda beard growth was taken up in 2001 by Garda whistleblower John Wilson, now retired. A former rank-and-file garda, Mr Wilson sought the right to have a beard on grounds of an unusual skin condition and was eventually successful.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LGENY4T5CVHKRKVQURPLCWIVCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1692354184061},"content":"The relaxation of the facial hair rules came as part of the Garda’s push to promote greater diversity, equality and inclusion in the force.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7ML34MVFZDCZLD4TIWHTNFMK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1692354184062},"content":"The organisation also began to permit the wearing of turbans, prayer hats, burkas and other headgear associated with a member’s religion.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ellen O'Riordan"}},"name":"Ellen O'Riordan"}]},"description":{"basic":"PSNI and London’s Metropolitan police force have looser tattoo policy than An Garda Síochána"},"display_date":"2023-08-19T04:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The ‘jobstopper’ tattoos: Where not to get inked if you want to keep your career options open","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WQGGCVUQCBFCLAYG7KCJNJATEQ","auth":{"1":"f02b69c17c75691eabb087a6296636e060f9a4ef9ffc1270e321560afd0fe39b"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WQGGCVUQCBFCLAYG7KCJNJATEQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Work"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/work/2023/08/19/the-jobstopper-tattoos-where-not-to-get-inked-if-you-want-to-keep-your-career-options-open/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/work","additional_properties":{"original":{"Podcast":{"podcast_logo":null}}},"name":"Work"}}}},{"_id":"2BWQTMI7IZH2VCB6ONAH5AO5JY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":124,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/9212234/media/3fe93b6709a6b1fda79cf1d0018a335f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/2023/08/18/ryanair-to-hire-150-cabin-crew-based-in-ireland/","content_elements":[{"_id":"2WRONBIOBJBQHE5NUWQJNUFQRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1692364398414},"content":"Ryanair is hiring 150 cabin crew for its bases at Cork, Dublin and Shannon airports to cater for strong demand for travel from Irish people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIBFKGLBOJCNPKQ6NZ2JC33CP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1692364398415},"content":"The carrier said on Friday that it would hold a recruitment day at Ryanair Engineering in Airside Retail Park, Swords, Co Dublin on Wednesday, August 30th, where likely candidates will get an insight into life working for the airline.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITLKUZQH2NFWVLSYVFRLE4FT2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1692364398416},"content":"Darrell Hughes, Ryanair’s chief people officer, invited anyone interested in applying to come to the recruitment day to meet the company.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5KS2ZPLZPNATRPDCDXHIMOWJLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1692364398417},"content":"“We look forward to welcoming new cabin crew on board in the lead-up to winter 2023 and summer 2024 as Ryanair continues to grow to carry 300 million passengers by 2034,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DHPSIPUIPZHELMJUMWBTJQDMFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1692364398418},"content":"Meanwhile, the Irish carrier has formally appealed plans by Spanish airports operator Aena to hike charges, which Ryanair dubbed the biggest challenge to the country’s tourism industry since Covid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YQX4HH46AVAE7AYQ7OHHEWWTQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1692364398419},"content":"Ryanair argued that the move was designed to circumvent the Spanish government’s 2021 ruling to freeze airport charges for five years to aid tourism’s recovery from pandemic restrictions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RQADECEZQJBKPMW2H2D3GFP5DY","additional_properties":{"_id":1692364398420},"content":"Spanish state-owned Aena runs 46 airports in the country, including the most popular tourist destinations. 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She doesn’t know of any complaints so far, though she says that – as in Ireland – employees are adding disclaimers to their emails explaining they don’t expect an urgent response.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VPHY2DIQQFBINOEMZIA3QXASUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1692115024390},"content":"Nadia D’Agostino, a principal associate at Eversheds Sutherland, agrees the law in Portugal “has not created a big cultural shift”. 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There is no excuse for the guff emitted by some of our most storied corporate titans today, especially when they are announcing financial results.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4Q7ZC57AUBHPLCPRHABAQP6GP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264660},"content":"“I remain fully confident that continued execution will enable us to deliver on our through-the-cycle return targets,” David Solomon, Goldman Sachs chief executive, told investors a few weeks ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2KVCU4CZNGW5H2ISJ5KQV6ODY","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264661},"content":"He was comprehensively outdone days later when Jim Fitterling, chief executive of the Dow Chemical group, said: “We proactively navigated the challenging near-term macro environment by implementing our targeted cost savings actions while capitalising on our advantaged feedstock position and participation in attractive end-markets.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7TVCLGGZZD4TED7XT3PXTPIR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264662},"content":"The legal profession is another reliable source of gibberish, so it was a delight to see it produce a court document this month that reads like a pacy thriller.","type":"text"},{"_id":"COUSLQ6NSBHWFOPG44HY5XZJWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264663},"content":"I speak of the latest indictment against Donald Trump, which accuses the former president of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TH3VAKPBMFFS7NJWQU63HIC4DQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264664},"content":"This is a story of death threats, violence and frantic plotting, where a string of little-known heroes stand up to extraordinary efforts to pressure them to break the law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LAORNOWVWVDPNGOATY2S3BDPEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264665},"content":"At the centre is the smouldering figure of Trump, remorselessly seeking ways to stay in power, to the bewilderment of many aides.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KUPIBJARRZFJVB46WGER62EAAA","additional_properties":{"_id":"GQF674Y3NJB6VISFGLGBK3VNYM"},"content":"Pilita Clark: What next for working from home?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"QGBW5S4IRFF2VARAZN2GV2WMDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264666},"content":"“It’s tough to own any of this when it’s all just conspiracy s**t beamed down from the mother ship,” writes one senior Trump campaign adviser.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3WQ6B4JN7JF5FPZLK4F4DXO6AY","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264667},"content":"“It’s a crazy play,” writes another.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNUMANCPENGBFDRTF3O274VDP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264668},"content":"Could any of this make a difference to the outcome of the trial, or Trump’s hopes of winning next year’s US presidential election?","type":"text"},{"_id":"VDQD4AC5NFCE3IPKMDKR7YQO4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264669},"content":"It is impossible to say. Bad writing alone did not bring down Ignaz Semmelweis and a highly readable legal case may not dent Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VI76QVLO5ZFATDE5FSTJ3PEEQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1691922264670},"content":"I like to think the compelling way this case is told might stay in the minds of swing voters come November next year. 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You feel calmer when you know – rather than just hope – that you are aware of what predictably lies ahead. And if you get into the habit of checking your calendar and your lists of tasks, you are more likely to trust them. This allows you to write things down and then relax, knowing you’ll be reminded of them at the appropriate moment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C5WOZVWGWFECVAEATIH63C5J5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1691588459718},"content":"Second, clarify. Far too many things linger in the inbox or on the desk because we fail to take the moment required to think about what they are. Does this need to be archived for reference? (Usually not.) Does it need to be simply deleted? (Very often, yes.) Is a simple, one-shot action required? (If yes, maybe do that immediately.) Or is there something more complicated implied? 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Let’s not volunteer for the role of Sisyphus: “Yes, I will book a holiday and begin writing a novel, but first let me just roll that boulder up the hill one more time.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TTGAXIOVFZCQZKZMFS5AQMXS6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1691588459723},"content":"Each of us is just going to have to do what we can in the time allotted to us (whether that’s an eight-hour working day or an 80-year life) and realise that perhaps we couldn’t reasonably have done any more.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XA6MF7TKI5GBZBIZ2IQYY7RYS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1691588459724},"content":"David Allen has pointed out that if, by some miracle, you were able to tick off everything on your to-do list tonight, by tomorrow afternoon you’d be fizzing with energy and ideas. The to-do list is not finished until you are. Learn to live in peace with that fact.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AG2W72A4RZBDNKYN54LLSBIPZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1691588459725},"content":"Or, for a more philosophical take on much the same idea, Oliver Burkeman builds on a line from the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges: “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UQGU7CW6BF2NDMYYOLM5TZHMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1691588459726},"content":"In that case, says Burkeman, in his delightfully wise book Four Thousand Weeks, stop yearning for the moment when you’ll grasp a handhold on the bank, climb out of the river, and relax as you watch it flow by. You are the river. 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This spurred her on to pursue postgraduate studies in combustion in Valencia followed by a PhD in engine optimisation at UCD.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VMZFWWB4V5BTXLO235JKVPRKTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1691487189431},"content":"“I was very young when Ford closed its plant in Cork, yet I do remember it happening, which is possibly an indication of my interest in cars from early on,” she says. “Then when I was older, I think it was the complexity of the motor industry that attracted me, and by the time I’d finished my PhD, I was well qualified to go into engine development.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZUU3XQGTNEL3KLHCAANHIKQPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1691487189432},"content":"“Initially I’d assumed I’d end up with a European brand, but then I met some people from Nissan. They told me how Europe had autonomy from Japan for engine development and also about their engine co-operation with Renault. 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It’s a juggling act when your job is full-on and you have kids, but you get into a routine and make it work. My husband is a real partner, and without that, it would be infinitely more difficult.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5MW54RSQCVD6VIGB2T3GHWJPLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1691487189441},"content":"As Dublin is only a short hop away, Lyons stays well connected to home. But she misses the Irish practice of casually dropping in on friends and family. “When I go home there’s a programme, whereas when you live locally you can just pop in and you get a better sense of what’s really going on for people,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DOH3C4AQHZB5XHZTW2CQEP6I24","additional_properties":{"_id":1691487189442},"content":"With the motor industry now going through unprecedented change with the shift to electrification, Lyons is energised rather than daunted by the challenges that lie ahead. “We’re at a pivotal point and there are a lot of complex issues to be dealt with, but that’s what attracts me. 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This means some overseas staff start earlier than their Irish colleagues while flexible hours and hybrid working are accommodated as much as possible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5G6HNC5VBDIPM27E7B3EH6T3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1691587243442},"content":"“Our support people have to work Irish hours for obvious reasons, but developers can work at any time so our system allows them to log on for their working day when it suits them,” says Brien, an electronics engineer who founded IP Telecom with software developer Brian Chamberlain in 2010.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4MIXXUIAKZEUTB2FEB5OS46WO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1691587243443},"content":"“But whatever their working hours, people need their breaks. They feel better in themselves and we all know we’re more productive when we’ve had our downtime. The last thing anyone needs is an email from their boss at midnight. It’s a very old-fashioned and outdated way to manage a team and shows no consideration for the other person.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DHFXOJWGHNCVHNRP7H2D3NW2MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1691587243444},"content":"“We believe it is incumbent on employers to have systems that prevent intrusion and monitor employees in a positive way to ensure they are not working excessively long hours,” Brien adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLMXESYDLFAFDLGOB5UNS4D5ZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1691587243445},"content":"“There is no shortage of tools out there to facilitate individual log on/log offs or allow employees to programme their work number to only accept calls between certain hours. Companies just need to build these tools into their systems and use them, because you will always have employees who put in extra hours and don’t take their breaks. 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