Discount retailer, Aldi, is planning a significant expansion of its Irish operations in 2019, with hundreds of new roles to be created in the process.

A tangled chain in a mooring buoy almost pulled a visiting yachtswoman overboard in a Co Cork harbour.

Mike Ashley's Sports Direct has seized control of US retailers Bob's Stores and Eastern Mountain Sports in a 101 million US dollars (£78 million) debt deal.