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Thu 11 Nov 2002Cable & Wireless restructuring to hit 3,500 jobsUp to 170 jobs at Cable & Wireless Ireland are at risk following the firm's decision yesterday to shed 3,500 jobs and pull out of continental Europe and the US.The British firm refused to comment on whether the decision would affect its Irish division which supplies hundreds of firms with telecoms services. But industry sources believe the scale of the corporate restructuring will lead to redundancies in Dublin.