Des O'Sullivan previews a sale that harks back to Ireland's pubs of days gone by.

Rather than flying in cheese from abroad, a couple with a passion for local produce opted instead for a spot of import substitution at their Co Cork dairy, writes Roz Crowley.

Co Galway firm Clean Cut Meals has built a profitable business making and delivering thousands of healthy food orders across the country. It now has plans to take a bite of the US market, writes Pádraig Hoare

The Irish recruitment scene is enjoying an upsurge in activity in recent times, as can been seen with this selection of new appointments and promotions.

The couple behind one of the country's best-known independent publishers has decided to close the book on their working lives after 30-years in the business.

A Co Cork priest who lost his ticket for the Liam Miller tribute match had his prayer answered as a good Samaritan gave him his spare ticket for this afternoon's match.

“At the thought of getting Finn the right support, I’d run five marathons back-to-back,” declares Sinead Lucey.

If Cork’s exit from the championship was highly embarrassing, then Ronan McCarthy’s exit interview to the print media was most intriguing.

A Co Mayo-based chicken-processing firm has been ordered to pay €17,000 to a woman it unfairly dismissed while off sick days after suffering a miscarriage.

The go vegan advert advertising a cow and calf on posters is, I think as a dairy farmer, very misleading.

The winner of the €2.4m Lotto jackpot from Wednesday has revealed positive thinking and a self help book convinced him he would one day win the big one.

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A Supreme Court decision has cleared the way for the Revenue Commissioners to continue its pursuit of a number of wealthy taxpayers whom it believes engaged in elaborate “straddle” transactions for tax avoidance purposes.

A winning black Jersey at last weekend’s Cork Summer Show reflected new trends in the dairy industry.

Country came to town last Sunday as a tourist town celebrated its new streetscape after months of upheaval due to resurfacing and drainage works.

The ESRI and developer Johnny Ronan have emerged as opponents to Greg Kavanagh’s plans to construct a seven-storey apartment block in Dublin’s Docklands.

Co Tipperary drinks group M&J Gleeson Investments Ltd returned to profit in 2014 as revenues climbed to €234m.

Setting aside my recent sentiments regarding the overuse of technology in social situations, a review of a forthcoming book titled The Future of the Professions aroused my interest. 

A decision on the boundary extension for Cork has been delayed for decades and now amalgamation has been chosen as an easy political solution.

At a time when criticism of anonymous posters on social media is regularly in the news, there is nobody willing to put their name to the statement released by the Cork County Board on Monday which has again made Cork GAA the laughing stock of the country. 

Nothing is likely to have gladdened the hearts of the criminal gangs who control smuggling of displaced people in the Mediterranean region than the spectacle of three government ministers traipsing all the way to Malta for a spurious media photo opportunity aboard the LE Eithne.

The 2007-2008 cock-up cost the taxpayers billions. Way back when the late Brian Lenihan took over the Ministry of Finance, he was amazed to discover the lack of ability and qualifications of the team of civil servants that he inherited.

As the banking inquiry winds its weary way on interrogating those it deems to be responsible for the financial chaos that developed during the dying days of the last Fianna Fail Government, it is managing to elicit from those concerned how lax the controls were on lending large sums of money to individuals whether it was for mortgages or other ventures.

For days, we have listened to Finance Minister Michael Noonan crowing about his ‘spring review’ giveaway of €1.5bn.

The spelling might be different but the result was the same as Ballymena’s Dermot McElroy joined Rory McIlroy on a prestigious list of winners of the Radisson West of Ireland Championship at Rosses Point yesterday.

There has been much talk about water bills, but no information from Irish Water as to what our bills will include. Although at a flat rate, will our bills be personalised to a level of water consumption associated with a particular address?

THERE’S a chance to add a further €100,000 a year in rent to the existing rent-roll or to further develop/redevelop for a possible main anchor tenant, at Killarney’ s Innisfallen Mall.

A Limerick primary school board has lodged a High Court appeal against a circuit court ruling that a former principal was contructively dismissed.

I have great difficulty understanding government politicians’ insistence that we are in “recovery”. “Tough decisions now paying off” they trumpet. What rubbish!

After obtaining planning permission, constructing a photo-voltaic solar array and paying €300 to the ESB to install an import/ export meter, I am told that my surplus generation will feed into the grid, but I cannot expect a cent in return.

I read with interest, and some frustration at the hubris it contained, the letter (‘Teachers against the Junior Cycle’, October 23) jointly written by Phillip Irwin and Gerry Quinn (presidents of the teaching unions ASTI & TUI respectively).

On a visit to Cork City at the weekend, I was delighted to see the tower cranes in the skyline again. Unfortunately, I was informed they were working on the new prison.

We should be asking what methods Brian Cody employs to improve the reflexes of his Kilkenny players, which are admirable and brilliant.