The delivery service will be offered to customers in the UCD area of Dublin in late March.

Vodafone Ireland and three retailers have pleaded guilty to sending unsolicited marketing emails and text messages.

Profits at the Irish arm of the world’s largest online takeaway ordering service, Just Eat, increased almost three-fold last year to €2m.

The takeaway food market contributes more than €1bn per annum to the Irish economy; ranking it alongside the likes of the motor sales, road freight and mobile technology services sectors in terms of economic importance, new research shows.