The Revenue overstepped its powers of demand for information from a Co Sligo oil supplier in his licence renewal application to sell home and auto fuel and the cheaper Vat-reduced dyed diesel, the High Court decided yesterday.

Abbott Diagnostics has this morning announced 29 redundancies at its diagnostics plant in Sligo.

A COMPANY seeking to build an €85 million power plant which could create hundreds of jobs will pitch its plans to public representatives in Clare this week.

MORE than 300 job losses have been announced in Cork and Sligo by two companies in the technology sector.