It is now 5O years since I started working for the Irish Sugar factory in Mallow. My first day working there was October 8, 1965. I was trained into the quality control section. Some of my colleagues were Tadgh Quill BSC who was chief chemist and John Buckley RIP was the quality supervisor and also the chairman of Mallow Urban District Council.

Tributes have been paid to a "highly talented" Cork pilot who was tragically killed in a road crash in Co Limerick.

When we lose a loved one we need to grieve and then we try to move on. We have grieved the demise of the Celtic Tiger long enough, it is time to move on.

Charles Green today completed his purchase of Rangers‘ assets – shortly after former manager Walter Smith announced an 11th-hour bid.

Rangers’ administrators have urged fans to be patient for “a few more days” with talks set to continue over the weekend in the search for a new owner for the club.

A COMPANY has brought High Court proceedings arising from an alleged deal in which €30m, plus fees, was raised from about 110 Irish and British investors in 2006 and 2007 for purchase of a block of apartments in Shanghai, China.

A COMPANY contracted to care for troubled children has put its workforce on protective notice and warned that a HSE-imposed funding cut could force the closure of five of its 12 care units.

A COMPANY backed by businessman Barry Maloney, who shunned the recent Global Irish Economic Forum because Denis O’Brien was attending, reported a surge in profits for last year.

A COMPANY co-owned by horse trainer Aidan O’Brien has made a tax settlement of more than €500,000 with the Revenue Commissioners.

A COMPANY in Clare has told staff it plans to seek as many as 40 redundancies in the coming months.

A COMPANY owned by a prominent Donegal businessman has been ordered to pay almost €54,000 to a female employee whom he repeatedly sexually harassed.

A COMPANY in Britain has begun transforming human waste into renewable gas that powers homes for the first time.

A COMPANY involved in the sale of lead and zinc from the Lisheen mine in Co Tipperary recorded an eight-fold increase in pre-tax profits to $22.9 million (€17.9m) last year.

A COMPANY has tackled the problem of intrusive airport full-body scanners — with a product that covers your private parts.

A COMPANY has tackled the problem of intrusive airport full-body scanners – with a product that covers your private parts.

COMPANY bad debt hit €1.2 billion in the first six months of 2010, with the 32 worst-affected liquidated firms owing €770 million between them.

A COMPANY that installs Sky satellites saw pre-tax profits plunge from €2.1 million to €342,411 last year.

A COMPANY is about to make history by “adopting a road” in Co Cork — spending €10,000 a year to keep it litter free.

COMPANY bosses have been told health and safety is a sound investment as workplace accidents cost the economy €3 billion a year.

COMPANY directors who dodge tax should be made personally liable for PSRI contributions collected by the company on behalf of the state.

A COMPANY is being sued for €1.9 million in damages over allegedly selling animal feed containing dioxins to a Co Tyrone-based farmer whose cattle herd later had to be destroyed.

A COMPANY has unveiled what it says is the first helter-skelter to be built inside a British office building.

COMPANY liquidations more than doubled last year and may rise again this year.

A COMPANY has won a six-figure deal to clean the new House of Fraser department store in the showpiece Victoria Square shopping centre in Belfast, it has been revealed.

UK pubs company Marston’s reported slower sales today as the Pedigree brewer became the latest chain to paint a gloomy picture on festive trading.

A COMPANY which recently secured a runner-up place for new technology development in the prestigious European Venture Contest is set to double its workforce.

COMPANY bosses breaking the law will be hit with fines under a new proposal, it emerged yesterday.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has today welcomed the move by Minister for Trade and Commerce Michael Ahern to refer the issue of auditor liability to the Company Law Review Group.

A COMPANY in a Cork unemployment blackspot is to shed up to 200 jobs (almost two-thirds of its workforce) early next year.

A COMPANY belonging to the beef baron Larry Goodman stands to lose about €200,000 a year in farm subsidies under plans being drawn up in Brussels.

An award winning comedy about Sigmund Freud is to have its Irish premiere in Dublin in line with the 150th anniversary of the birth of the renowned psychiatrist.

A COMPANY which maintains engines for some of the world’s largest airlines could shut both of its Cork plants if unions do not accept a new pension scheme.

A COMPANY which is due to close next week with the loss of 70 jobs was yesterday accused by SIPTU of “cynically misusing” industrial relations procedures.

A COMPANY connected to the Coolmore Stud farm operation paid out over €1.4 million in dividends to shareholders last year.

A COMPANY connected to the Coolmore Stud farm operation paid out over €1.4 million in dividends to shareholders last year.

A COMPANY that specialises in anti-counterfeiting technology has claimed Europe’s common currency infringes on a patent obtained from a New York inventor’s family.

A COMPANY formed nearly three years ago to operate a hotel in Co Cork was wound up by the High Court yesterday on the petition of dancer Michael Flatley who claims it owes him more than €2 million.

A COMPANY co-owned by comedian Patrick Kielty has won the contract to replace RTÉ’s popular afternoon TV show, Open House.

A former British soldier who arrested alleged rioters on Bloody Sunday today denied having fabricated statements about them.

A COMPANY headed by multi-millionaire businessman Denis O’Brien, who netted over £230m following the sale of the State’s second mobile phone company, did not even have enough cash to pay its share of the licence fee, the Moriarty Tribunal was told yesterday.

A notorious loyalist paramilitary unit is crumbling amidst new talks to end a violent feud.