Rangers striker David Healy has been recalled to the Northern Ireland squad for next month’s Euro 2012 qualifier against the Faroe Islands, with uncapped Derry City forward James McClean also in Nigel Worthington’s 23-man group.

THE closure of Waterstone’s branches in Jervis Street and Dawson Street is a major blow to Ireland’s book industry, Publishing Ireland, the association of Irish publishers, has said.

Dundalk: Bookstore Hughes & Hughes has reopened its Dundalk store with the creation of eight jobs, bringing to six the number of stores re- opened by holding company Sivota Limited.

THE Hughes & Hughes brand is to be preserved with the reopening of five stores and plans for further expansion.

MERGERS and acquisitions (M&A) increased 8.8% in the first quarter of 2010 on the same period last year.

MORE than 400 companies have been declared insolvent in the first three months of 2010, a more than 200% increase on the same period in 2008.

Figures released today show a 25% increase in business insolvencies in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period last year, up from 320 to 402.

Eason and Son has signed an agreement with the Dublin Airport Authority to take over the seven Hughes and Hughes outlets at Dublin and Cork Airports.

Brian Cowen today stood accused of presiding over 340 job losses every day since he took over leadership of the country.

ONE of the country’s largest bookshop chains, Hughes and Hughes, has gone into receivership, with the loss of 225 jobs.

ABOUT 450 jobs are to be created this year when two new retail and leisure areas are opened in Dundrum’s Town Centre in Dublin.

MANCHESTER UNITED’S sixth successive league victory may not have come as a surprise at Ewood Park, nor did the fact that Blackburn’s manager Mark Hughes sees similarities between the side being assembled by Alex Ferguson and the team he helped to their first Premiership title 14 years ago.

THE use of science in our everyday lives will be demonstrated in hundreds of events during Science Week 2006 starting on Sunday.

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US regulators have given media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation the go-ahead to take over America’s largest satellite TV provider, in a €6.3bn deal.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has agreed to acquire control of Hughes Electronics Corp and its DirecTV service, America’s largest satellite television provider, in a $6.6bn (€6bn) cash and stock deal.