Eurospar has launched a new initiative which will see defibrillators outside all their supermarkets nationwide.

A Kilkenny man picked up a cheque for €500,000 at the National Lottery Headquarters today which he won thanks to his daughter who bought him a winning ticket as a gift.

Shane Lowry is determined to defend his WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title and get his Ryder Cup campaign up and running with a badly-needed win over the next four weeks.

A new fundraising initiative is giving every shopper in the country the chance to donate €1 to help children in or at risk of homelessness.

I have written in the past about the difficulties faced by small wine importers given our draconian wine taxes. We are around 650% higher than the EU average and more expensive for wine than countries such as Sweden and Finland.

A rapper who starred alongside pop star Bressie in an RTÉ reality show has been given a 12-month ‘rap on the knuckles’ by a judge.

A rapper who starred alongside pop star Bressie in an RTÉ reality show, has been given a 12-month 'rap on the knuckles' by a judge.

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Some 40 jobs have been lost in Limerick with the sudden closure of a Eurospar supermarket at Watch House Cross.

A one-armed man who was caught with €20 of cannabis in a DVD case wants to become a professional golfer, Tallaght Court has heard.

A robber who raided two shops in five minutes in order to get cash to bring his girlfriend out for Valentine’s night has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Eurospar has slashed fruit and vegetable prices to as little as 9c — just weeks after other major retailers agreed not to sell produce below cost.

The company which runs the Spar chain in South Africa has bought a controlling stake in the firm which operates the brand in Ireland, promising investment of up to €100m.

With the launch of their dinosaur-shaped crunchy corn puffs, healthier crisp company Veronica’s Snacks is hoping to appeal to children and parents — and not just in Ireland, writes Trish Dromey

Hibernia REIT has acquired a building and development site in the popular Dublin docklands area for a combined sum of €27.6m.

A lucky lotto player is €1m richer today.

A lucky Lotto winner found her €258,000 winning ticket at the bottom of her rubbish bin, the night before it was due to be emptied.

More than 50 enforcement actions were taken by the National Consumer Agency (NCA) against supermarkets, car dealers and waste operators in the first half of this year.

They’re more elusive than Willy Wonka’s golden ticket but the jury remains out on Tayto’s ‘cheese and onion’ chocolate bar.

Supermarket chains are outspending the rest of the retail sector when it comes to marketing investment, with German discounters Lidl and Aldi showing the biggest increases in the last quarter.

A CHANGE of retail brand is on the cards, with the planned €4m sale of a modern supermarket in Cork harbour town, Passage West.

Flash flood waters that swept through Clonakilty after a torrential deluge were followed yesterday by a collective sigh of relief in the West Cork town.

Consumers in Ireland carry about €78.2m in cash every day — or about €23 each.

Former Kerry Gaelic football player Tommy Doyle has joined the Blue Haven Food Company in Kinsale, Co Cork, as general manager.

Wi-Fi network operator Bitbuzz is rolling out its Wi-Fi service to convenience stores and supermarkets in Dublin.

A WOMAN has spoken of the honesty and decency of a child and a shop’s staff in returning a €20 note, lost accidentally.

A total of 190 new jobs have been announced today.

Up to 50 jobs in Limerick's Moyross appear to have been saved with the news that the estate's only supermarket will re-open.

MARGARET SHERIDAN, one of the hundreds who yesterday visited the willow tree stump in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, which many claim projects the image of Our Lady, said it has worked a miracle of sorts for her husband, Dan, who is on dialysis.

THERE has been much debate as to what drives consumers to choose one shopping location over another.

IRISH pork finally made a welcome, if somewhat limited return, to supermarket shelves yesterday following the resumption of processing across the country.

THERE are two basic pitches with the sale of these new hilltop apartments at Passage West, Co Cork.

Figures have revealed that there was a drop in the rate of inflation to 4.3% last month.

SPLIT your shopping basket and seek value in different shops, the National Consumer Agency has urged after finding a price difference of just 35c between Dunnes Stores and Tesco.

Spar Ireland won the Global Award for Convenience Retailing at the Retail Industry Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London last night.

CONSUMER watchdogs yesterday accused some of the big supermarkets of failing to compete for custom.

WHILE nobody is openly suggesting a cartel exists between the leading supermarkets in Ireland, the glaring lack of competition between them is certain to fuel growing suspicions.

The similarity of prices for well-known goods across Ireland’s supermarket giants proves there is not enough competition, a consumer watchdog insisted today.

A basket of groceries costs almost 11% more in convenience stores than in supermarket chains, according to a survey carried out by the National Consumer Agency.

Food retail and distribution firm, BWG Holdings Ltd, whose businesses include the SPAR and Mace franchises for the Republic of Ireland and Appleby Westward and the Bargain Booze franchise in the UK, has reported continued growth for 2004.

A man who committed robberies which his own defence counsel described as "chilling" will be sentenced on June 20, 2005 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

SPAR Ireland today announced that the company and its independent retailers will invest over €40m in the expansion of its Eurospar supermarket brand in Ireland in the next year.