UK pub operator JD Wetherspoon will open its newest pub and first Irish venture outside the capital in Cork next week following a €3.65m investment.

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TWO prime Waterford City investments worth €13.5m — one next to where Wetherspoons have acquired a 4,000 sq ft city footprint for a new bar — are new to market for a local family of investor/owners.

The future of wearable technology will see humans upgrade themselves using computers microscopic in size, according to an industry expert.

UK retail mogul Sir Philip Green today said his retail empire had seen a near 40% slide in profits as chains including Top Shop and Miss Selfridge chose not to pass on increasing costs to cash-strapped customers.

BLUR frontman Damon Albarn is set to open the world-famous Guinness Cork Jazz Festival this October.

ELABORATE plans to build an official Taoiseach’s residence and State guesthouse in the Phoenix Park were even more lavish than revealed to the public.

TOPSHOP was the star performer in Ireland last year for retail group, Arcadia which saw pre-tax profits fall from £15.1 million (€17.1m) to £10.6m.

Wexford's, Eamonn Boland and co-driver, Damien Morrissey (Subaru WRC) are on course to clinch the Irish Tarmac Championship.

THERE was no change at the top of the General Classification as members of the Legia Bazylisek team from Poland filled the top two positions with Ireland’s Ryan Connor third at the end of yesterday’s fifth stage that took the FBD Insurance RÁS from Kilrush to An Ceathru Rua.

Two senior directors at British group MFI today paid the price for a profits slump and supply chain problems that left the retailer struggling to deliver orders.

Takeover target Marks & Spencer is to return £2.3bn (€3.4bn) of cash to shareholders and focus on its core business as part of a strategy unveiled by chief executive Stuart Rose today.

Strong sales and the end of distracting takeover talks are expected to boost Arcadia's interim results next Thursday.