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Sat 03 Mar 2007British Council looks NorthArtScape: The three members of staff at the Irish offices of the British Council were due to be served with redundancy notices yesterday, and will be gone by the end of April. Is this the end of the council's wide-ranging and well-regarded Irish operation, or at least the end of its many bilateral projects and partnerships, which involved bringing some of the best of British art - and indeed science - to the Republic?