D2 Private and its owner, Deirdre Foley, must pay the legal costs of their failed challenge against the powers of inspectors conducting an investigation into the collective redundancies at Clerys, the High Court has ruled.

A decision by inspectors investigating the collective redundancies of 460 Clerys’ workers to enter the offices of D2 Private Ltd was made legitimately and in the public interest following the “traumatic” redundancies, the High Court has been told.

A ‘directors’pack’ containing financial details about the iconic Clerys department store and its workforce was one of the reasons why inspectors sought documents at the offices of a Dublin-based property company, the High Court has heard.

If individual awards — Player of the Month, Man of the Match and the like — are an indication of the impact made by James Coughlan in his first season playing French rugby, then the boy has done well.

Vodafone Group Plc announced that due to the minimal amount of daily trading in the Company's shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, it has filed for delisting of its shares from that Exchange.