Dunnes Stores has overtaken Tesco as the second largest player in the Irish grocery market, new figures show.

Businessman Harry Crosbie has lost an appeal over Nama’s efforts to recover a €77m debt under which his personal assets, including his family home, are at risk.

A judge has awarded €40,000 to a man finding he was defamed and falsely imprisoned by Dunnes Stores after being falsely accused of stealing a packet of firelighters.

An award of €67,500 damages to a Dunnes Stores worker over an arm injury suffered when lifting a 10kg bag of potatoes has been overturned by the Court of Appeal.

Dunnes Stores has rivalled the German discounters for grocery sales growth over the last three months, with its customer vouchering campaign giving it a 6.3% annualised boost at the till.

Dunnes Stores engaged in a misleading commercial practice likely to deceive customers in an advertising campaign comparing certain products with rival Aldi, the High Court has ruled.

A slight increase in footfall and higher spending by young families helped reinstate Tesco as the market leader in the Irish grocery sector in the past three months.

Mandate has condemned Dunnes Stores for using staff as pawns in a property dispute over a side entrance.

A self-respecting nation should relieve the burden imposed on the most vulnerable writes Michael Clifford

I am writing this week’s column outside in the garden such is the weather at the moment. It is not just the Irish that are obsessed with the weather, however — talk to any grape grower or winemaker.

Kerry GAA star Paul Galvin is as well known for his daring and trendy style as his football skills — and, to prove his fashion prowess, he is about to launch a menswear clothing range for Dunnes Stores.

Dunnes Stores workers set to strike over working contracts have been backed by Enda Kenny.

A trade union strike committee will decide on Tuesday what form of industrial action up to 5,000 staff will take at Dunnes Stores.

More than 4,000 Dunnes Stores staff are to be balloted for industrial action up to strike — over, what their trade union says, is the failure of the company to implement a Labour Court recommendation.

Fierce competition in the run-up to Christmas has led to grocery price inflation falling to 1.9%, meaning that the staple food items for this time of year are costing less than 12 months ago.

Dunnes Stores has insisted it has broken no laws in relation to how it ran a price-advertising campaign in its stores.

Dunnes Stores ‘round euro’ pricing promotions helped it to marginally increase its grocery sales in the three months to the end of last month — the only one of the major multiples to do so.

Supermarket giant Aldi has gone to court alleging a Dunnes Stores ad campaign gives a “completely misleading impression” that various Dunnes products are cheaper than Aldi equivalents.

Pre-tax profits at the UK arm of Irish-owned retail giant Dunnes Stores last year increased by 29% to £15.9m (€18.5m).

Musgrave-owned SuperValu and Superquinn are holding their own in the grocery shopping sector, as discounters Aldi and Lidl eat into the market share of the multiples.

A woman who was three months pregnant when she stumbled and almost fell in a Dunnes Store restaurant has lost a €38,000 damages claim for personal injuries against the retail chain.

Dunnes Stores enjoyed its best sales growth figures for four years recently, according to figures released today.

On BBC1’s reality TV show The Apprentice during the week, the aspiring entrepreneurs were challenged to develop marketing campaigns for English sparkling wines. I’m taking a closer look at how they fared on the blog today (blakecreedon.wordpress.com) but some more immediate questions are raised by the programme.

Wine tastings are always interesting, but the organisers of a one-off event devoted to the riesling grape next month have outdone themselves.

Dunnes Stores has been ordered to pay about €20m due to a company which built a shopping centre in which the chain agreed to be the anchor tenant.

DUNNES STORES has lost its challenge to laws under which a tax assessment of €36.4 million was raised on the supermarket chain arising out of the levy on plastic shopping bags.

DUNNES Stores’ right-hand man Dan Barrett has occupied all of the hot seats.

WHEN Dunnes Stores opened its first store in Cork, World War II was being fought, Winston Churchill was preparing for D-Day, and food, clothing, petrol and nylons werebeing rationed. That was March 31, 1944.

A DISPUTE over the alleged failure of Dunnes Stores to complete an agreement to become anchor tenant at the Point Village development in Dublin’s docklands has been settled.

SOMEWHERE in Cork, the owner of a lucky Quickpick ticket is holding onto a €4.2 million fortune.

STAFF at one of Cork’s biggest supermarkets have been balloted for strike action in a row over alleged bullying and harassment by management.

BOTTLED water is more expensive than orange juice, milk, fizzy drinks and even export lager, a new cost survey reveals.

NEVER one to avoid publicity, Eddie Hobbs is now campaigning allegedly on behalf of the consumer for Dunnes Stores to lower prices in line with recent reductions by Tesco.

SENIOR tax inspector Seán Ó Catháin yesterday denied Revenue officials had ever behaved improperly in relation to the tax affairs of Dunnes Stores and insisted they had always “acted reasonably”.

OUSTED Dunnes Stores boss Ben Dunne said the changes in the structure of the family trust disclosed yesterday “opens up a lot of possibilities, good and bad” for the group.