Newstalk presenter Chris Donoghue battled cancer at 23, and the death of his mother when he was just 14, he tells Jonathan deBurca Butler

WHEN a political leader comes to a constituency, the standard event sees him or her make a carefully orchestrated speech in a public forum – say a town hall or hotel conference room.

The chief Executive officer of IRS, an advertising company linked to radio news provider INN, has secured an injunction preventing his employers from dismissing him.

Dublin: Newstalk has won the temporary contract to offer a news and sport service to a number of radio stations affected by the closure of Independent Network News.

THE National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has asked the rights commissioner to investigate its claim that workers at Independent New Network (INN) were made redundant illegally.

Journalists held a protest over the planned closure of radio news service Independent Network News this afternoon.

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan has expressed concern about the planned closure of the independent agency that supplies news to local radio stations around the country.

Members of the National Union of Journalists are due to hold a protest outside the offices of Independent Network News in central Dublin today.

SIX groups are battling it out to supply a national news service to a consortia of regional radio stations following the collapse of Independent Network News (INN) last week.

ONE of the country’s leading news agencies, which supplied 21 radio stations with national and international news, is set to close down.

Sixteen journalists are to lose their jobs with the closure of news service Independent Network News (INN), it was revealed today.

The FTSE 100 Index edged lower today as banking stocks bore the brunt of a cautious note on the sector from analysts at Credit Suisse.

A COSY little pub in the Dingle Peninsula might be a long, long way from the South Pole but the achievements of the first Irish team to reach the southernmost point on earth were celebrated there, last night.

TERRACOTTA brick and cut limestone are part of the fabric and charm of this property in New Inn, Glanmire.

The Cork County Board are pouring cold water on speculation that John Allen has been suffering health problems.

Impek gained a poignant victory for owner Jim Lewis and trainer Henrietta Knight in the totesport Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon.

AMBITIOUS, determined and talented, Rory Carroll’s intrepid journalism has taken him across Europe, Africa and, inevitably, to Iraq’s volatile capital Baghdad.

Ambitious, determined and talented, Rory Carroll’s intrepid journalism has taken him across Europe, Africa and, inevitably, to Iraq’s volatile capital Baghdad.

InterContinental Hotels today said an influx of business travellers had made the UK its hottest market in Europe.

The ISEQ index of shares continued to edge towards the 6000 mark today as the financials, and especially AIB, surged ahead.

Hotels group InterContinental is to sell a further 76 properties worth around £1.3bn (€1.9bn) as it continues its strategy of moving away from owning hotels, it said today.

IRISH stocks have outperformed global indices by almost three to one in the first weeks of the year and Goodbody Stockbrokers believe there is room for more growth in the ISEQ.

PROOF, if it were needed, that the decentralisation programme was politically motivated emerged yesterday as Fianna Fáil fought a propaganda war against the PDs to claim credit for delivering jobs to rural constituencies.

FEARLESS in business and hungry for a challenge, Denis O’Brien has regularly flirted with disaster.

DUAL Gold Cup and Grand National hero, Jim Culloty, enjoyed his first ever success at Listowel when partnering Al Eile to a shock 12-1 victory in the Devon Inn three-year-old Hurdle at the first stage of the Festival yesterday.

MIKE DILLON was on his way to work a year ago today when he heard the nine o’clock news headlines.