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Fri 03 Mar 2007Big profit increase in last set of resultsIrish Continental Group's (ICG)last set of results as a public company showed a sharp upturn in profitability as the benefits of a redundancy programme agreed last year with crew on its routes from Ireland to Britain began to flow.ICG posted profit before tax of €33.3 million for the year to the end of December 2006, compared with a loss of €15 million in the previous 12 months.