Faith Ryan sinks her toes into aged rugs, searches out invisible switches and considers moving out to a vintage caravan for the summer.

SCROLL down through Jamie Heaslip’s Twitter page and you’ll see a shot of his man brunch: double eggs, sunny side up over a mountain of diced beetroot and roast swede. 

The Dublin restaurant group that Irish rugby international, Jamie Heaslip, has an interest in is expecting to increase profits "substantially" this year.

Esther N McCarthy goes hunting for some extra-special products this week, from an over-sized homage to 1950s pop culture to a fun way to keep the children’s toys tidy.

The Spanish owner of high street fashion chain Zara saw annual profits growth grind to a halt as it revamped flagship stores and expanded its global reach.

THE bankers should have been an example to people in other industries that too much of a good thing can never last.

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The Dublin-based Jo’Burger restaurant group has announced plans to open three or four restaurants next year with the creation of 120 jobs.

HERE’S an upside to the downturn.

PERHAPS even more fascinating than the multicoloured birds and butterflies seen on this Thai island just south of Burma are the ghost crabs, almost as invisible and fleeting as ghosts.

The owner of the Zara and Massimo Dutti fashion chains today said annual profits rose 5% after it opened another 343 stores in the year.

A new Winnie-the-Pooh book will be released later this year, more than 80 years after his first adventure.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is offering bonuses to the top brokers at ailing bank Bear Stearns to get them to stay with the company after it is acquired.

A billionaire British businessman was today nursing huge losses from the collapse of the US investment bank Bear Stearns.

Wall Street ended a temperamental session widely mixed today after investors grappled with JPMorgan Chase & Co’s government-backed buy-out of stricken investment bank Bear Stearns.

Red Hot Chili Peppers star Anthony Kiedis has joined the ranks of the Hollywood parents who have given their kids odd names by confirming his baby son will be christened Everly Bear.

Wall Street shot higher in a last-minute advance today after careering through a session made turbulent by ongoing concerns about US home loans and the credit market.

The board of directors of fashion distributor Inditex today appointed Pablo Isla Álvarez de Tejera as new Chief Executive Officer.

Roches Stores is to pull out of supermarket trading to focus solely on the non-food side of its business, the group announced today.

The US Government is investigating trading in shares of 38 companies, including major airlines, cruise lines, General Motors and Raytheon, to determine if people used advance knowledge of the terror attacks to profit.