A comprehensive plan is needed for two IDA-owned sites in Cork — one lying idle in Fermoy since 2002 and another in Kilbarry on Cork City’s northside that is “underutilised for years and growing grass”, according to two TDs.

A family of confectioners who were the creators of "Emeralds"

You too can be a glowing goddess, says Katie Wright.

THE CHALLENGE to go without make up for a week, inspired by this season’s nude face trend got me thinking.

HIGH vacancy levels on Cork City’s South Mall may finally be reversed, with an overall rise in the economy, and in the demand for professional services and indigenous offices.

With a merger of Kraft and Heinz expected soon, entrepreneur-led food firms are wide-eyed with optimism for the future, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

The Dublin Airport Authority is taking legal action against two firms who were involved in the construction of Cork Airport’s terminal building.

Contributions from acquisitions and favourable currency movements led to Origin Enterprises posting a 3.5% year-on-year increase in first-quarter revenues, to €318m.

Coca-Cola has held on to its position as the biggest selling brand in the Irish grocery market for 10 years, according to the latest Checkout Top 100 Brands report, produced by Checkout magazine in association with Nielsen.

Coke is still it, at least as far as Irish consumers are concerned as a new list of the best-selling brands in the country shows Coca Cola is the most popular.

The Midleton Park Hotel, the only hotel in the East Cork town of 12,000 people, has been put up for sale for €2.5m.

THE glamorous month-long Fashion Week calendar has hit the runways, stopping off at New York, London, Milan and Paris.

Pre-tax losses at the Irish arm of international firm Jacobs Engineering last year decreased by 53% to €1.5m.

AMERICAN consumers would like to have greater access to Irish food products, according to a new survey by Dublin-based Amárach Research.

I LIKE my food just a little bit too much as anyone who has seen me recently will know.

JACOBS Engineering Group reported yesterday that Q4 profit dropped by about a third and earnings missed Wall Street expectations, as the construction services firm was hit by project cancellations.

US giant Kraft Foods has made a £10.2bn (€11.5bn) takeover offer for British confectionery group Cadbury, it was revealed today.

Coca-Cola is the biggest selling brand in Irish shopping baskets, it emerged today.

Anne Hathaway has reportedly struck a deal with designer Marc Jacobs which could see her replace Victoria Beckham as his fashion muse.

THE planned N21 bypass of Adare village faces further delays as Limerick County Council has to change the route it opted for four years ago because of recent alterations in national road policy.

JACOBS ENGINEERING — the California-based construction services giant that has offices in Dublin and Cork — has won the contract to look after the building of pharmaceutical firm Genzyme’s €130 million expansion of its existing Waterford facility.

Fine Gael will use Dáil time today to raise concerns about the rising unemployment rate – the highest in seven years.

More than 20,000 people have lost their jobs since Employment Minister Michael Martin came to office in 2004, it was claimed today.

Leading economist Jim Power has today accused the Government of “fiddling while the economy burns”.

THE trend of wholesale job losses in the manufacturing sector continued yesterday with the announcement of 360 job losses at Allergan in Arklow.

220 jobs are to go with the closure of the Jacobs biscuit factory in Tallaght.

A CO Waterford-based porridge manufacturer has landed a lucrative contract with a British supermarket chain on the back of impressive sales in the North.

A Co Waterford-based porridge manufacturer has landed a lucrative contract with a British supermarket chain on the back of impressive sales north of the border, it was announced today.

The 300 jobs at Jacobs Fruitfield plant in Tallaght have been saved after workers at the company this afternoon voted overwhelmingly in favour of the company’s survival plan.

Workers at the Jacobs Fruitfield plant in the Tallaght area of Dublin are expected to be given a second chance to accept the company's survival plan at a meeting later today.

There are fears for the future of 500 jobs at the Jacobs Biscuits plant in Dublin today following the rejection of a survival plan by the company's workforce.

Master surfboard designer Dale Velzy, who helped popularise surfing along the California coast and at one time was the world’s largest maker of surfboards, has died. He was 77.

Forty jobs are to go at the Jacobs Biscuit factory on the Belgard Road in Tallaght, Co Dublin.

A convicted fraudster, described as a "brilliant and bright conman", has been given a six-year suspended sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, after he undertook to voluntarily leave the jurisdiction as soon as it could be arranged.

FRENCH food and dairy group Danone yesterday confirmed it is planning to sell its Irish Biscuits subsidiary.

FINANCIAL services group IFG yesterday signalled its painful restructuring was at an end as it reported a €1.7 million profit last year after a €32.8m loss in 2002.

SWISS food giant Nestle appeared yesterday to be moving more quickly than expected towards a multi-billion dollar bid for American chocolate icon Hershey Foods Corp, boosting Hershey’s shares.

The Irish Biscuits plant in Tallaght in Dublin is to shed 100 jobs.