The largest broadband intervention yet by the State could run into legal difficulty and face significant delays. The Government’s National Broadband Plan which intends to deliver high-speed broadband to 750,000 homes and businesses by 2020 is expected to cost up to €500m to implement.

There are many things you don’t expect to do in your 20’s, and becoming Santa’s not-so-little helper would have topped my list, had I even considered it a possibility.

Irish-headquartered telecommunications firm Imagine Communications posted a loss of almost €8.9m in 2013 — an increase on the previous year.

Last year at Fota Island Resort’s Santa experience, six men proposed to their partners, inspired — and perhaps emboldened — by the spirit of Christmas created there. A tough act to follow. So what’s going on down there this year?

Four major music firms have secured orders requiring six internet service providers to block access by subscribers to Pirate Bay websites within 30 days in a bid to prevent illegal downloading of copyright music and other material.

Downloading music and films for free looks set to get a lot tougher - after the High Court granted an injunction requiring UPC and other internet service providers to block Pirate Bay.

A legal action aimed at blocking access by Irish internet users to the free file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is due to be heard in the Commercial Court today.

A legal action has been launched aimed at blocking access by Irish internet users to the free file-sharing website Pirate Bay and related sites.

AIDAN O’BRIEN is anticipating bold shows from Wonder Of Wonders and Misty For Me in the Investec Oaks at Epsom today.

Leonardo DiCaprio will begin shooting the biopic about J. Edgar Hoover in January.

MYSTERY surrounds the origin and meaning of a colourful piece of graffiti which has turned up on Waterford’s famous Mount Misery.

Ireland can use Finland as a role model to recover from recession and the banking crisis, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said tonight.

The National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) has announced that it will commit €30m to two venture capital funds in support of Innovation Fund Ireland.

AUTHOR and playwright Peter Sheridan is expected to reinforce the critical value of the arts to the Irish economy and highlight the need to maintain funding and supports for the sector when he visits Waterford.

Some 420 jobs were announced today at a US health insurance firm, the opening of a high speed fibre optic network and expansion at a long-standing Irish IT business.

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play J. Edgar Hoover in an upcoming biopic.

Veteran jockey Mick Kinane has announced his retirement, ending a 34-year career in the saddle.

A BROADBAND price war has erupted that will lead to lower prices and better services for internet users, it is claimed.

UP to 200 jobs are to be created by Imagine Communications group as it spends €100 million rolling out, what it claims, will be the country’s fastest, most affordable and highest quality broadband technology.

Around 200 new jobs are set to be created as a result of the roll-out of a new high-speed 4G Internet network across the country.

TELECOMS provider Imagine is to give its business customers €1 million in free vouches.

TELECOM firm Imagine Communications has acquired a 30% stake in British web and mobile technology company, Bandwagon.co.uk, according to reports.

Songs composed by late Beatle John Lennon and his protégé Bruce Bierman are set to be released, decades after the tracks were written.

BROADBAND take-up was close to drying up completely before new high-speed internet access products were launched last month, according to figures released this week by Eircom.

NOT yet bitten by the broadband bug? Then it’s time to get the calculator out. Because despite concerns that Ireland lags other countries for highspeed internet access, the country’s broadband providers have been slow to make life simpler for potential customers.

TELECOM company Imagine swept into the broadband market yesterday with a radical move to offer high-speed internet access for €10 per month.