A GROWING consumer demand for health-enhancing foods has helped a distribution company in the Muskerry gaeltacht to create 65 jobs and grow turnover last year to €15m.

PLANS for 38-metre high observation wheel for Killarney are being welcomed enthusiastically by the local tourism industry – but some local traders are claiming it could cost them business because of lost parking space.

A 20,000-member credit union yesterday took steps to rubbish what was described as “unfounded, vicious and scurrilous rumours” about its security.