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Wed 10 Oct 2007Bank chief calls for IDA and NI equivalent to mergeThe Industrial Development Authority in the Republic and its northern equivalent, Invest Northern Ireland, should be merged, the chairman of the Ulster Bank Group, Dr Alan Gillespie, has urged.The radical proposal to bring together the two job-creating agencies on the island of Ireland is made in an article in today's Irish Timesby Dr Gillespie.