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Greetings all! It's Martina Purdy again - it's taken months but I've finally driven Mark Devenport out of the office for a well-earned rest. So you will have me to contend with for much of the summer.

First talking point - An Bord Snip - the Republic's cost cutting body - has put the spotlight on North-South bodies. And it appears that the tourism budget may be getting the snip. There's a proposal to save 12 million Euros from the Tourism Marketing Fund which is administered by the cross-border body, Tourism Ireland. It seems this is a matter for the finance ministers is Belfast and Dublin, as well as the Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment and presumably also the Executive and the North South Ministerial Council. So it could be a while before there's agreement on this....

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