FOLLOWING last week’s news that 145 jobs will be cut in its Irish division, Britvic said the contribution to group sales from Ireland fell by 2%, on a year-on-year basis, to €53.9m for the three months to the end of December.

BRITVIC, the British soft drinks manufacturer, has said that operating profits in its Irish division, for its current financial year, will fail to meet previous expectations.

MY grandmother was frequently wont to declare that ‘eaten bread is soon forgotten’, and how fitting her adage was in the light of latter-day treatment of our older citizens.

Heineken Ireland has appointed Siobhán McNickle as the Heineken Brand Manager for the Off-trade.

DAVID O’LOUGHLIN travels south this weekend when he will be favourite to win the 21st edition of the Gene Moriarty Cup cycle race in Listowel on Sunday (1pm) and will again figure in the Crotty Cup, promoted by West Clare Cycling Club, in Kilrush on Monday (12.30pm).

IRISH cyclist Conor Murphy has tested positive for the substance pseudoephedrine, in a test carried out at the Tour of Ulster on May 5th, 2003.