A weak share price, a massive debt-fuelled acquisition, and an impending switch to an unproven chief executive.

Vodafone is nearing a transformational deal to buy continental European assets from cable giant John Malone’s Liberty Global and could announce an agreement next week, according to sources.

A Co Meath motorist who was quoted more than €19,000 to renew his car insurance has secured fully-comprehensive cover elsewhere — for less than €2,000.

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Netherlands-based Ziggo Sport — owned by John Malone’s Liberty Global and Vodafone — said they had been targeted in a European Commission investigation into a possible cartel in sports broadcasting rights.

Joy Neville’s success in rugby refereeing shows it is time for other women to be given similar opportunities in non-playing and governance roles, according to Ireland’s Six Nations-winning captain Fiona Coghlan.

Governments can now easily see where we’re going, who we’re talking to, and what interests we have. All without our knowledge or consent, writes Elizabeth Farries.

As she takes on the greatest adventure of her stellar sailing career Annalise Murphy (27) will, at least, have no worries about her Olympic silver medal as Liberty Insurance has stepped in to cover it against damage or loss after its recent makeover.

More than half of young drivers in Ireland believe it is acceptable to give false information to their motor insurer, a new study shows.

Young Irish drivers are being accused of being more "fluid" on the definition of motor insurance fraud than older drivers.

A human rights campaign group has intervened in a court battle over whether humanist marriages should be legally recognised in the North.

Six people were left with neck and back injuries when they claimed to have been shaken in what was described as “a little bump” in a carpark incident.

Liberty Global lowered its growth target for Europe this year as billionaire John Malone’s cable carrier reported a weaker-than-expected start in the UK.

ITV chief executive Adam Crozier is stepping down after seven years, as the UK broadcaster shakes up its executive ranks amid a Brexit-derived advertising slowdown.

A council in the UK has apologised after two schoolboys were reported to police after one of them told a teacher he was getting a toy gun for his birthday.

The days of Formula One taking millions from deep-pocketed nations with little history in car racing to stage Grand Prix events may be over. New owner Liberty Media Corp wants to end a “deal-of-the-day” mentality to focus on key markets, including the US and Europe.

US billionaire John Malone last year booked a €9.34m gain on the value of his new five-star InterContinental hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin.

Vodafone Group could benefit from a merger with Liberty Global, according to a report in Barron’s, which added the British telecommunications company’s shares could also be poised for a 33% rise.

US billionaire John Malone’s Virgin Media — which owns TV3 and the UPC cable operator — is reportedly poised to buy out rival broadcaster UTV Ireland, sparking fears for jobs at the fledgeling broadcaster.

 

The Central Bank is to investigate suspected contraventions of insurance regulation by management of the former Quinn Insurance, which entered administration in 2010.

Cable & Wireless yesterday said a deal with billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Global would help both companies add scale in a high-growth, low-penetration region for smartphones and broadband connections.

After spending the past decade consolidating the European cable industry, US billionaire John Malone is to do the same in Latin America.

Fledgling broadcaster UTV Ireland’s news staff in the Dublin Docklands were assured yesterday that their jobs were safe after Britain’s ITV confirmed it will buy all of the UTV Media Group’s television operations, but the £100m (€135.9m) deal still faces regulatory hurdles.

With a $120bn merger with Liberty Global off the table, Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao needs his strategy of higher network investments and acquisitions of European cable companies to start paying off, quickly.

Talks between Vodafone and Liberty Global about exchanging assets to better compete in Europe’s converging mobile, broadband, and TV markets collapsed yesterday because they could not agree on the value of their businesses.

The upturn in the economy may help 5,000 people living in unfinished estates even more than legal threats against financial institutions which have an obligation to complete works to them.

Munster coach Anthony Foley is targeting the Pro12 clash with Glasgow next month for Tomás O’Leary’s return to provincial action.

Communications group UPC Ireland is to formally rebrand as Virgin Media, across all of its offerings, in the coming months.

Having been the hotbed of financial activity in Ireland for the past 25 years Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre is now a key component of a developing financial technology sector here, alongside native technical expertise.

The owner of UPC in Ireland, Liberty Global, has reported a decline in second-quarter revenue as its Dutch unit Ziggo lost customers, highlighting the difficulties for billionaire John Malone’s European cable company in its hunt for growth.

European cable operator Liberty Global said yesterday it had raised its stake in ITV to 9.9% through a hedging deal — but still had no intention of taking over Britain’s biggest free-to-air commercial TV firm.

The family of murdered schoolgirl Alice Gross have told a coroner there is a “public interest” in knowing what checks were conducted when convicted killer Arnis Zalkalns was allowed into Britain.

After four home-grown suicide bombers killed 52 London commuters on July 7, 2005, British prime minister Tony Blair vowed that Britain would stop at nothing to defeat terrorism.