A total of 2.32 billion text messages were sent by Irish mobile users in the first three months of 2008.

Grand National-winning jockey Robbie Power missed out on a Grade One success following a nasty fall on Thursday as his intended mount Notre Pere landed the Knight Frank Ganly Walters Novice Chase at Leopardstown.

THE Government should put its money where its mouth is and tell consumers when their electricity bills will fall and by how much, a consumer champion said yesterday.

AN expert employed to value the patents left over from the collapse of Media Lab was then allowed to buy them, the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday heard.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt's Las Vegas, Nevada dream is over - their ambitious Las Ramblas hotel complex is dead.

Activists opposed to the Corrib gas field project are to protest during celebrations of Norwegian Independence Day in Dublin today.

THE Government last night agreed a major last-minute concession to rebel backbenchers to ensure the smooth passage of the controversial Fisheries Bill through the Oireachtas.

JUNIOR Minister at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources Pat The Cope Gallagher is expected to be moved to the Department of Transport as controversy continues over proposals to toughen laws on commercial fishing.

THE tendering process which resulted in the appointment of Transport Minister Martin Cullen's €1,200-a-day PR adviser Monica Leech appears to have breached national and EU rules on awarding public contracts.

The on-again, off-again relationship between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez is finished for good, it was confirmed today.