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It is by any stretch, a hefty weekly commute and coupled with a young family and a demanding job, she says it became too big a challenge.

All this coupled with a "cost-of-business crisis" - caused by recent rises in the minimum wage and in employers' national insurance contributions, among other things - could shake out the weaker players, thinks Ms Shuttleworth.

Leaders said increasing enrollment in the coming years coupled with financial strains — UC recently requested a $130-million zero-interest loan from California to make up for lost state funds — has made the annual increases more urgent.

“The current steep funding cuts — coupled with the potential dissolution of the agency — could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.”

The facilities are a quietly purring economic engine, injecting billions in investment, employment and anchoring the tech multinationals which, coupled with big pharma, fund over half of Ireland's corporate-tax take, according to analysts.