Editorial staff at The Herald and Sunday World newspapers are to merge as part of a digital strategy by Independent News and Media.

A hundred jobs are to be created following the expansion of three firms.

Former taoiseach Brian Cowen has picked up his first gig in the private sector after Denis O’Brien appointed him as a director of Topaz Energy.

A boardroom row is on the cards after Independent News and Media warned it would not be happy to see the Irish Daily Star shut down.

The company which owns the Irish Daily Star has criticised the newspaper for running pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge topless and are 'taking immediate steps' to close the newspaper.

Communicorp has 60 days to inform the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) if it considers the appointment of owner Denis O’Brien ally Leslie Buckley as chairman of Independent News and Media “relevant” to his media holdings.

Leslie Buckley is set to return to the board of Independent News and & Media, just over a year after being dramatically voted off the media group’s board.

The chairman of the board of Independent News and Media has been voted off at todays AGM in Citywest in Dublin.

RECENTLY the National Women’s Council of Ireland made a submission to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland about what it claimed to be an exclusion of women from the airwaves.

Businessman Denis O'Brien is today calling for Independent News and Media CEO Gavin O'Reilly to step down, after the company issued a warning that profits for this year are likely to fall short of targets.

Irish shares enjoyed significant gains today following moves from Brussels to tackle the eurozone debt crisis.

A former senior director of Independent News and Media who was voted off the company's board yesterday, has criticised the company's chief executive Gavin O'Reilly.

Independent News and Media has raised €42m by selling part of its stake in Indian publisher Jagran Prakashan.

CORK businessman Leslie Buckley has been given €500,000 in funding from the European Commission for his Haitian housebuilding charity.

Dublin freesheet newspapers Herald AM and Metro are to merge, it was announced today.

The board of Independent News and Media has again rebutted criticism of the company by one of its biggest shareholders, Denis O'Brien.

The ISEQ-index slipped 79.77 points this morning at 9840.26 amid disappointment over Independent News and Media's failure to woo shareholders with a €1.8bn bid for Australian publishers APN.

INDEPENDENT News and Media (INM) is planning to open a newspaper printing facility in Newry next year.

SPECULATION is set to mount as to Independent News and Media’s (INM) plans for the Australian market, where it owns 40% of media giant APN.

A copy of Independent News and Media’s annual report for the year ended December 31, 2005, has been submitted to the Irish Stock Exchange and the UK Listing Authority.

A High Court judge today varied an injunction to allow the new giveaway newspaper Herald AM to use the words "metro edition" on its masthead.

A High Court judge will rule on Friday on a legal bid to prevent the Evening Herald from using the word "metro" in the title of a giveaway newspaper planned to rival a new freesheet due to be launched shortly.

PRE-TAX profits at Independent News and Media jumped by 43% to €68.1 million in the first six months of the year as revenue increased and the benefits of an aggressive redundancy programme kicked in.

Dr Tony O'Reilly has resigned as chairman of Independent News and Media.

The ISEQ was down 17 points to 5266 just after 11.30am this morning on sluggish volume, with the exception of Waterford Wedgwood and Independent News and Media.