Profits before tax at the country’s largest hotel, the Citywest in Dublin, last year declined sharply by 79% to €316,634.

The owner of the country’s largest hotel, the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, has expressed confidence in it delivering double-digit percentage growth in profits and revenue this year.

Two sons of billionaire businessman Jim Mansfield will go on trial in November on ammunition charges.

The owners of the 3Arena, concert giants Live Nation is trying to block plans by Citywest Hotel to stage concerts at its convention centre.

A woman who was almost three times the legal limit when she knocked down a mother of two, leaving her with a brain injury, has been jailed for three years.

On Jackie Tyrrell’s words, Kilkenny unleashed hell, although he’s a little embarrassed by the acclaim that’s come his way courtesy of Colin Fennelly’s revelation.

Operating profits at the country’s largest hotel, Citywest, are set to exceed 2013 levels.

Welcome to your Tuesday morning briefing. Let us ensure you’re up to speed on what’s happening and are prepared for the day ahead.

In yesterday’s Irish Examiner, we carried a transcript of Brian Cody’s absorbing interview with six journalists in the bar of the CityWest Hotel on Sunday morning.

The morning after the evening before and All-Ireland-winning Kilkenny manager Brian Cody is holding court with members of the written press in the bar of the CityWest Hotel.

Developer Jim Mansfield, who made his fortune selling scrap metal from the Falklands War, was laid to rest yesterday in his home town of Saggart, Dublin, surrounded by his family and a wide circle of friends.

An online ‘get rich quick’ business that promised investors guaranteed returns has pulled out of Ireland, leaving thousands of people battling to recoup their money from an address in Belize in Central America.

The GAA-GPA All Star awards ceremony on Friday, November 8 will, for the first time, be held at Croke Park.

The investment vehicle Banners Broker has told its 15,000 subscribers that Mastercard has withdrawn its services because it no longer wants to be associated with the company.

Banners Broker says it is not a pyramid scheme. So what is it, Investigative correspondent Conor Ryan asks

The CEO of the country’s largest hotel group said yesterday he expects earnings at the group to increase by 40% on the €2m recorded last year.

Kilkenny Supporters’ Club secretary Jim Freeman

The chief executive of the country’s largest hotel group said yesterday that the Dalata Group significantly increased its revenues last year and had good growth in its operating profits.

A drunk Cavan man who drove 7kms in the wrong direction down a dual carriage and killed a man returning from his fiancée’s birthday party has avoided jail.

The GAA and GPA have today announced that their respective annual player awards schemes are set to merge.

SO many times already in careers with gongs galore, the hurlers of Kilkenny experienced that magical post All-Ireland Monday morning feeling.

Efforts to offload assets belonging to businessman Jim Mansfield are getting underway.

CAMOGIE President Joan O’Flynn is confident the decision to hold their All-Ireland club finals in Croke Park next March will be vindicated.

Following their AGM at the Citywest Hotel this afternoon, members of the Gaelic Players Association have agreed in principle to back the use of video technology and an independent timekeeper in Gaelic games.

YOUNG farmers will not pick up the tab for Ireland’s ambitious plans to boost milk production by 50% by 2020, said Edmond Connolly, chief executive of Macra na Feirme, whose Young Farmer Annual Conference takes place in the Arklow Bay Hotel in Wicklow throughout this weekend.

Newly-crowned GAA Footballer of the Year Bernard Brogan was delighted to pick up his award at the Citywest Hotel on Friday, but says that the lack of team accolades for Dublin this year will drive them on for 2011.

THE morning after the nightbefore and James McCartan isleaning against a wall in one of the few quiet corners the Citywest Hotel has to offer ruminating over what came to pass and what might have been.

The Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation has reassured staff at the Citywest Hotel complex in Dublin that the business remains viable.

A RECEIVER has been appointed to the company that owns the popular Citywest hotel in Dublin.

One of the country’s largest hotel complexes was tonight taken into receivership.

LOSSES of more than €1 million were suffered by one of the country’s biggest hotels in 2007 as a result of its venture into hosting entertainment events including Lord of the Dance and Paul Brady and Bonnie Tyler concerts.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has promised to close a loophole in Irish law that allows developers to begin work on large construction projects before the completion of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as required by EU legislation.

THE RICHEST sporting event of 2008 in Ireland will play out this weekend. But instead of golf clubs or rugby gear it is more likely to involve stetson-wearing, cigar-chomping, coffee-swigging men and women who pride themselves on never breaking a sweat while “playing”.

A BOY who saved his father’s life after a horrific farm accident shared the stage with musicians, politicians and golfing hero Padraig Harrington to be honoured in the 33rd Irish People of the Year awards.

Citywest Group, which includes Citywest Hotel, Weston Executive Airport, Finnstown Country House Hotel and the PGA National at Palmerstown House, has been re-branded The Mansfield Group.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Mansfield has been granted planning permission to expand his Citywest Hotel complex in Dublin.

THE National Roads Authority will have to pick up the bill for a new section of Luas that will have to be built as part of a €244 million project to upgrade an 8km stretch of the M50.

FIFTEEN years after making his senior debut, Peter Canavan brought the curtain down on a glittering inter-county career when he was named last night in the Vodafone GAA All-Stars football team.