In February 2010, Seán Greenwood took a volunteering job at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Prudential’s £23.5bn (€26bn) swoop for the Asian arm of stricken US insurer AIG sent shares in the firm slumping 12% today.

The Vancouver Winter Olympics, marred by early tragedy but destined ultimately to be remembered as a Games embraced by its hosts like few before them, drew to a close amid an unprecedented, country-wide party last night.

A TEENAGE skier from the Nepalese national team who went missing while training in the Alps has been found wandering the streets of Paris thanks to a Facebook campaign, his team said yesterday.

THE qualification of Wicklow’s David Connolly in an Olympic qualifying event in Germany this week ensures four Irish athletes have achieved the qualification standards for next month’s Winter Games in Turin.