NOT enough games are set in the ocean, writes Ronan Jennings. (It adds a lot of depth.) 

Helen O’Callaghan says mothers need to rediscover breastfeeding.

A recipe book, endorsed by cancer doctors and dieticians, offers a healthy and more palatable-looking alternative to the “blitzed in a blender” mush patients often have to contend with when illness makes eating difficult.

The first ever Irish off-shoot of the long running Insomnia Gaming festival will take place in Killarney in June.

Irish coffee company Insomnia is set to move into the UK market in a partnership with UK and Irish retail giant Debenhams.

Irish-owned wifi company Bitbuzz has seen revenues break the €1m mark in the first half of the year, on the back of strong growth in the last 12 months.

Unless one is able to read the murkiest of tea leafs, one would be totally confused about what is going on in GSOC at the moment.

Bitbuzz — the Irish-owned wifi company — recorded its best year on record in 2013, with an 81% increase in registered users, to 2.08m and a near 70% rise in log-ins, to 811,944.

With exports to Germany, Italy and the UK, Solaris Botanicals’ western-style herbal teas are winning new customers, and it is eyeing a surprising new marketplace — China, writes Trish Dromey.

The Dublin headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank may swap loans for lattes under a plan to turn the epicentre of Ireland’s financial crisis into a café.

Niall O’Farrell this week saw the business he founded in the mid-1980s, the formal suit hire firm Blacktie, fall into liquidation. The Dragons’ Den star will be hoping his investments on the show pay off soon, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Insomnia Coffee Company has announced plans to open a series of franchise outlets around the country, aiming to create 100 jobs.

The Prodigy have been voted the best dance act of all time in a poll by long-running dance magazine Mixmag.

COFFEE shops located in hospitals are “ripping off” customers who have no choice but to pay over the odds, according to a leading charity.

WALKING into the Dragons’ Den, entrepreneurs usually expecting a roasting.

THE logic that typically prevails during an economic downturn is: when money is tight, the luxuries fall by the wayside.

Faithless are splitting up.

THE coffee shop chain business Insomnia co-owned by RTÉ Dragon, Bobby Kerr was hit by “inappropriate use of funds” totalling over €280,000 in 2009, new accounts reveal.

BUSINESSPEOPLE are coming together to encourage entrepreneurs to follow their dream and start their own business in a unique competition worth €25,000.

A COFFEE shop franchise is leading the way in customer nutritional awareness by displaying the calorie content of its hot beverages and snacks on its menus.

THE luck of the Irish will help us get through the next few years, according to the chairman of Enterprise Ireland.

DESIGNS for a rotating door handle, an easy-to-grip carton and a bizarre kettle-mug hybrid have been lauded for their potential to improve the lives of the country’s 40,000 rheumatoid arthritis sufferers.

DO YOU have this business idea that you think just might work? Do you fantasise about turning your dream into reality and earning millions if only you had the cash and know-how to get your idea off the ground?

IRISH-OWNED coffee shop chain Insomnia has been acquired by Icelandic group, Penninn.

The leading Irish coffee retailer Insomnia has struck a deal to serve only Fairtrade coffee to its customers.

SPAR Ireland today launched a new food strategy and said the strategy will form a central part of the company's €90m expansion programme for 2006.

Ian Guider

COFFEE shop chain Insomnia has opened its 21st outlet in the Meadows & Byrne store on Cork’s Academy Street.

GLORIA Jean's Coffees plans to compete head-to-head with Starbucks for domination of the Irish coffee house market.

COFFEE bar chain Insomnia has snapped up the six Perk shops in Dublin for around €1 million.