Latest: "I love you to the moon and back," these were the words of Captain Mark Duffy’s wife Hermione at his funeral this morning.

The search is continuing for her three fellow crew members off the County Mayo coast.

PROPERTY fund IPUT, with some €2bn in investments and which celebrates 50 years in the investment game this year, is seeking to offload three Cork city centre retail investments at the western end of Patrick Street, guiding €9.5 million, or a c 6.15% yield.

The €9.5 million sale of Irish Life investment properties in Cork and Limerick includes two Patrick Street Cork units set for increased profile from next year, when the Capitol Cinema retail site is completed, bringing a strong anchor (Zara? H&M?) to this end of Patrick Street.

The Karen Millen ladies fashion chain and two associated companies, employing 300, have been given High Court protection to allow them try to trade out their financial difficulties.

A father-of-three is the latest diver to lose his life after getting into difficulty off the coast of Donegal.

Parts of Cork City flooded last night as Met Éireann issued weather warnings for several parts of the country.

Lily Allen's fashion firm has reportedly gone bust.

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A PRIME, good-sized store on Cork City’s Patrick Street has come up to let via Savills, at a market-savvy rent, after being vacated during the summer by Mothercare.

Canadian rockers Arcade Fire's record 'The Suburbs' has been hailed album of the year in a prestigious poll of music critics.

The FTSE 100 Index edged past the 6000 mark for the first time since June 2008 today in a last minute push before the market closed.

AURORA FASHIONS – the company behind leading retailers Karen Millen, Oasis, Coast and Warehouse – has reported a 5% like-for-like sales increase in the first half of its financial year, to the end of July.

The owner of fashion chains including Oasis, Coast and Warehouse today said it was accelerating its growth plans after a successful half-year performance.

GITANO Hernando and Kieren Fallon swooped late to land the Group 3 Diamond Stakes at Dundalk last night and is set for a return to Group 1 action.

BP’S broken Gulf of Mexico oil well is not yet plugged for good, and work on what has been touted as the permanent solution will need to continue, the US government said yesterday.

A CAP on BP’s ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico remained in place yesterday while further tests are carried out to check for new leaks.

The “vast majority” of the 2,300 jobs at UK high street fashion retailer Principles are expected to go, sources said today.

PZ CUSSONS, Glanbia’s joint venture partner in Nigeria under the Nutricima name, says the business will be in profit in its current half-year which ends in May 2009.

AN IRISH fashion designer told a court yesterday that a Dunnes Stores top was “a direct copy” of a Karen Millen sweater, in a landmark legal case over the protection of design rights.

Toy shop Hamleys looks to be nearing a deal which could see it open its first store in India, according to reports today.

IT wasn’t just the mighty Kerry Group that suffered under the lash of higher energy charges last year.

NEVER mind the horses — it was all about the glad rags and glad WAGS.

David James is set to undergo a medical and discuss personal terms at Portsmouth after the south coast club agreed a transfer fee of around £1.2m (€1.8m) with Manchester City.

Ante-post favourite Ansar heads a field of 30 horses engaged in Wednesday’s €200,000 William Hill Galway Plate at the five-day confirmation stage.

Leading fashion chain Oasis' summer sale was on ice today while its owner held out for some of the business lost to poor weather earlier in the year.

ONE of the south-east’s most popular restaurants — Coast Restaurant & Townhouse in Tramore, Co Waterford — is up for sale.

The owner of the Oasis and Karen Millen brands rued the lack of a “must-have” fashion look today as it reported sluggish sales in the year so far.

Around 400 jobs at clothing retailer Kookai were safeguarded tonight after the founders of the Oasis fashion empire bought a string of Kookai’s UK stores from administrators.

The owner of fashion chains including Oasis and Karen Millen looked set to meet profits hopes today after an upturn in sales over Christmas.

IN the whirlwind, fickle world of fashion that demands so much of Miriam Flahive’s time, there is one adored constant - her four-and-a-half year old son Jack.

A key player in a consortium bidding for supermarket group Somerfield was today reported to be close to withdrawing from the fray.

British supermarket group Somerfield said today it had received a £1bn (€1.45bn) takeover approach from Baugur, the Iceland-based group that has already pulled off a string of other deals on the UK high street.

Fashion chains Principles and Warehouse are on the brink of a sale that will land their owners a £130m (€187.8m) pay-day, it was reported today.

A key player in recent takeover activity on Irish and British high streets has lined up a £1bn (€1.4bn) war chest for a major deal of its own, it was reported today.

British supermarket chain Iceland was poised to be separated from its parent company Big Food today after the group received a £326m (€474.5m) offer from Icelandic retailer Baugur.

Budget British retailer MK One was gearing up for a major expansion today after Icelandic group Baugur confirmed it had bought the chain in a deal worth £55m (€78.8m).

Icelandic group Baugur is to add Mk One to its shopping basket of UK retailers in a deal worth £55m (€78.5m).

Companies ranging from airports operator BAA to ugar producer Tate & Lyle will be making the news during a busy week ahead in London.

The owner of the Principles and Warehouse fashion chains is the latest company on the shopping list of Icelandic retail group Baugur, it was reported today.