Great skincare beats slippers and novelty socks any Father’s Day. Rachel Marie Walsh has some last-minute gift ideas.

Four-bed semis are in very short supply in Ballincollig and many which do come on the market, are more expensive than this one at 138 An Caislean, guiding at €299,950.

Cork software company Global Shares yesterday announced a three-year expansion plan that will create up to 80 additional roles at its headquarters in Clonakilty, West Cork.

Meet Canadian weather lady Kristi Gordon.

An estimated 300 people are living in modern day slavery in Ireland, according to a new global report on the issue.

Some 32,000 businesses were started last year with great expectations, writes John Daly

Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp media group is set to become the fourth largest commercial radio owner in the UK after agreeing the acquisition of eight regional stations.

Every year, we waste or lose 1.3bn metric tonnes of food — one third of the world’s annual food production. The sheer scale of the number makes it almost impossible to grasp, no matter how one approaches it. Try to imagine 143,000 Eiffel Towers stacked one on top of another.

Glanbia’s share price has near doubled from around €6 a share on the Irish Stock Exchange in May 2012 to around €11 yesterday on the back of 9% revenue growth for the four months to April.

A strong performance by Glanbia’s nutritional division drove the food producer’s profits before tax to €198.8m as 16,000 farmers are set to receive a windfall of almost 9m plc shares today.

A businesswoman who started a firm by using fire hose waste to create ladies handbags and belts was one of the speakers at a major entrepreneurial event.

Global factors are expected to push food company Glanbia’s sales even higher in the second part of the year.

Revival is the central theme to the weekend events in both rallying and racing.

CLOGHROE, CORK €285,000

Kerry Ingredients & Flavours has freed up production capacity in its Asian ingredients facilities with the opening of an emulsifier plant in Zwindrecht, the Netherlands.

Another Labour minister has expressed unease about businessman Denis O’Brien being seen in the presence of cabinet members.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has backed the Taoiseach's claims that Ireland will be the first of the three bailed-out eurozone countries to pay back its debt.

IRELAND will be the first eurozone member to pay back its debt and “wave goodbye to the IMF”, according to the Taoiseach as he hailed a “new age” of confidence in the country.

GLOBAL security firm, Trend Micro is planning an expansion at its Cork operations following a positive performance of the business.

GLOBAL leaders have condemned North Korea for provoking an exchange of artillery fire with the South yesterday.

THE former Swissco plant in Cork’s Little Island has been bought in a quiet deal by next-door neighbour, PepsiCo, for about €3 million.

A GLOBAL report on human trafficking has placed Ireland in the top tier of countries for its efforts to tackle the crime, even though not one person has been prosecuted under this country’s specific legislation dealing with trafficking.

The International Rugby Board’s Executive Committee have ratified a financial package that moves Argentina a step closer to joining an expended Tri Nations competition from 2012.

Argentina is set to join the Tri Nations in 2012 after International Rugby Board (IRB) chairman Bernard Lapasset confirmed the body would provide a crucial funding package for the project.

THE Government says it remains firmly committed to advancing the work done at last year’s think tank at Farmleigh, according to a report.

A GLOBAL pharmaceutical firm is to set up its new headquarters in Co Louth, creating up to 200 jobs.

IT seems Craig Barrett might be the man to give us a state of the nation address.

DEVOLVING justice powers to the Northern Executive was demanded by Foreign Minister Micheál Martin last night, as unionists and republicans met in New York.

President Barack Obama today insisted the United States was serious about combating global warming, telling world peers “we are determined to act”.

GLOBAL concerns over a possible honey supply shortage for consumers and industry have been voiced by a leading packager and supplier.

The race for control of Virgin Radio took a new twist today after it was reported that Malaysia’s largest media company had entered the fray.

Classic FM parent group GCap Media today confirmed it had rejected an approach from rival Global Radio potentially valuing the firm at around £313m (€419m).

CLONAKILTY-based Global Shares has brokered a groundbreaking deal with US finance house Citi Smith Barney to administer shares ownership schemes which paves the way for more deals with world leading financial institutions.

GREAT Island in Cork, home to Cobh, Verolme, Rushbrooke and right around to East Ferry and Marlogue Woods, has witnessed many a ship launch.

A GLOBAL campaign called Stop the Traffik, which plans to raise awareness and stop women and young girls being sold into sex slavery, was launched in Brussels yesterday.

IN the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, US soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.

Baghdad International Airport – the country’s only reliable and relatively safe link to the outside world – reopened today after being closed for a day over a cash dispute between the government and a British company providing security there.

Iraqi troops will take over security at Baghdad Airport, replacing the British company which stopped working today in a pay dispute with the government, a top Iraqi official said.

The British company at the centre of a cash row which has closed Baghdad’s International Airport today defended its decision to suspend its key operations at the site.

Baghdad’s International Airport was closed today after the British company providing security suspended operations because of a payments dispute with Iraq’s Ministry of Transport, officials said.

THE publicly-quoted building firm McInerney's have housing developments on the go all over Ireland, and beyond.

TWO properties, at opposite ends of the compass are on offer in Cork city through Global Properties, and are affordably priced for first-time buyers.

Telecoms group Cable & Wireless resumed dividend payments to shareholders today after a major restructuring drive helped narrow annual losses.