A Dublin ‘drive-thru’ investment just off the M50 and let to fast-food operators, McDonalds and KFC, with a rent roll of €290,000, has been bought for a private investment portfolio for close to €4.5m, showing a 6.7 % return.

A company has been fined €100,000 for the death of a construction worker during the building of Charlestown Shopping Centre in Finglas, North Dublin.

An engineering company has been fined €15,000 arising out of a fatal accident five years ago at a south Dublin site in which a construction worker was crushed to death after three flights of stairs collapsed.

A leading construction company has been fined €50,000 for negligence which led to a father of two being killed when a concrete staircase collapsed on him at a building site.

PROFITS at John Paul Construction, one of the largest building firms in the state, rise by almost 8% last year.