A Dutch company’s challenge against a decision by the DAA to award a €50m contract to operate electronics stores at Dublin Airport to another company has been admitted to the Commercial Court list.

A voluntary group which engineered a huge increase in visitor numbers to Doneraile Park does not intend to sit on its laurels.

Plans to develop a stately home and 400-acre park into one of the country’s top tourist attractions have already received a major boost.

THE Office of Public Works (OPW) is set to carry out €500,000 of restoration work on a park in north Cork in a bid to increase visitor numbers to 300,000 per year within the next five years.

The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has blamed "administrative confusion" for the lack of documentation on meetings which took place around the time of the purchase of the Irish Glass Bottle site in Ringsend.

Fine Gael is calling for the resignation of any board members on the Dublin Dockland's Authority who allowed a culture of excess to exist.

LOUIS COPELAND is offering 50% off a second item, beauty store neu blue eru is promoting 60% off selected products, and Fitzpatricks has handbags and shoes on sale for 30% and 50% off.

THE replica famine ship The Jeanie Johnston, which cost €15.5 million to build, has been sold to the Dublin Docklands Authority (DDA) for €2.7million.

The sale of replica famine ship Jeanie Johnston to the Dublin Docklands Authority (DDA) looks set to go ahead, it emerged today.