A school in north county Dublin is to close down part of its building with immediate effect after "significant structural issues" were identified.

An irregular software issue was to blame for most of Ireland's airspace being closed earlier this week.

A long-established family-run sports retailer has gone into voluntary liquidation, closing its two remaining stores in Cork.

She can’t be absolutely sure of the exact date but Eileen Kelly, the outgoing postmistress in Allihies in West Cork, thinks that the village post office has been operating since around 1909.

A live rodent in an open wall cavity, rodent droppings under a pizza oven, and human excrement overflowing from a workers’ toilet were just some of the reasons that health inspectors closed a number of food businesses in January.

Public and private hospitals will be shut if they put patients lives at risk or fail to meet key targets under controversial new licensing plans.

Concerns have been raised about the Jack Lynch Tunnel drainage system after a lane closure during heavy rain in Cork City yesterday.

A row has broken out between the Financial Services Union (FSU) and Bank of Ireland over plans to close eight of the bank’s 36 branches in the North.

Eight closure orders, two prohibition orders and an improvement order have been issued in the month of June by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI).

Lloyds Banking Group, Britain’s largest mortgage lender, will eliminate about 640 jobs and close 23 branches as part of a cost-cutting programme that started in October 2014.

The owners of British newspapers The Independent and The Independent on Sunday have confirmed the print version of the titles will close in March, leaving an online-only edition.

One of SuperValu's stores in Clonmel will close its doors today - with the loss of 46 jobs.

Former Clerys workers are to stage a protest outside the department store's new owners' offices today.

Business Minister Ged Nash has admitted he does not know if all workers and creditors who lost out because of the highly controversial sale and closure of Clerys will be paid by liquidators.

IF there is even a grain of possibility in the suggestion in the report to Government on the Clerys closure by Minister for Business and Employment Ged Nash that, in economic terms, the State may well turn out to be the biggest loser as it might have to pay entitlements to former employees of the company then new legislation is required urgently.

Directors of firms who act in the same manner as those behind the Clerys closure should be banned from occupying such positions for five years, according to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

The High Court has confirmed the appointment of joint liquidators to the company that formerly operated Clerys Department Store.

IF the Greek crisis shows international capitalism in its very worst light then the scandalous treatment of Clerys workers by that company’s new owners is a perfect example of the abuse of financial power at a domestic level. Yesterday the High Court confirmed the appointment of joint liquidators to the company which once operated Clerys.

HIQA has ordered the closure of a unit in Kilkenny which offers services for adults and children with intellectual disabilities.

POLITICAL catchphrases can sometimes come back to haunt the person who first uses them. Those who invent them usually just slink back into the shadows, unbruised, while they wait for their next client.

The announcement of grandiose plans to redevelop Clerys department store in Dublin strikes like a trespass on public patience while the former Clerys’ employees flounder in frustration, anger and bewilderment for some semblance of dignity, validation and due process.

It has been claimed that the former owners of Clerys turned down a €20m bid for the department store that would have kept it open.

A package of reforms concerning student immigration system for international education is to be brought to Cabinet in the next two weeks.

Students and teachers from international language schools are to march to the Dáil this afternoon, in protest at a spate of recent closures.

Largo Foods, which employs 140 people in Co Donegal, is to close its local operation.

The first day of spring sunshine marked celebrations at a northside school in Cork City, days after a reprieve from possible closure. The 170 boys — along with teachers and parents — of Scoil Mhuire Fatima took their party outdoors at lunchtime on Friday as they marked victory in their campaign against its planned closure.