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According to The Telegraph, the jobs of almost 4,000 at P&O Ferries are under threat as the 180-year-old firm teeters on the brink of collapse.

The ferry company's Dubai owner is scrambling to agree a £250m rescue deal that will include cuts to staff's wages and pensions alongside a UK Government bailout.

DP World is understood to be preparing to inject tens of millions of pounds to keep the business afloat – but P&O is struggling to convince ministers to agree to put in £150m from taxpayers.

English Channel (and Irish Sea) operator P&O is struggling after passenger numbers collapsed when Britain and swathes of continental Europe went into lockdown last month.

For further reading click here and from a previous related report on measures to concentrate on freight. 

Afloat adds that P&O's operation on the Irish Sea is the Dublin-Liverpool route in addition across the North Channel with the Larne-Cairnryan service. 

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Eve McMahon's 2021 sailing achievements

  • Irish Sailor of the Year 2021
  • Gold Medallist Youth World Championships Italy Highest Ranked Irish Female 
  • Star Sailors league Silver medal at the Youth European Championships Croatia Gold medallist U19,
  • Silver medallist U21 Senior European Championships Bulgaria Race win Senior European Championships Bulgaria
  • Selected Paris 2024 Olympic Solidarity Scholarship Sport Ireland
  • 15th Senior European Championships Bulgaria, 1st Irish Female, securing Sport Ireland Carding.
  • Youth ISAF World Representative Oman, equivalent to Youth Olympic in sailing,
  • 4th overall Guinness World Record Participant Beach Clean up -
  • Oman Gold medallist U19 Allianz World Cup Netherlands
  • Gold medallist U23 Lanzarote International Regatta 4th
  • U21 European Championships Montenegro
  • Nominated for Irish Sailor of The Year
  • Bronze medallist Connaught's Wexford
  • 9th Silver Fleet European Continental Qualification
  • 5th Pre-Qualifciation regatta Lanzarote