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Major traffic restrictions will be in operation on Bank Holiday Monday as more than 9,000 competitors take to the streets in the annual Cork City Marathon.

LARGE dairy co-ops and some independent processors are to enhance their lab traceability in 2012 via a new online reporting system.

INCUBATION companies in Irish third-level institutions could create up to 66,000 jobs within 10 years, according to one leading academic.

MORE than 3,000 Fisher-Price toys and highchairs are being withdrawn in Ireland because they may pose a danger to children.

IRELAND rugby star Donncha O’Callaghan kissed his granny yesterday to help launch a new volunteer visitor service for elderly people.

RURAL poverty can exist side by side with considerable wealth and affluence but is frequently hidden and unnoticed.

AT the height of the boom disposal income for Dubliners was almost 11% higher than the rest of the country – and 33% higher than the lowest county average.

The owner of electricals chain Currys today confirmed the sale of its 60% stake in struggling chain The Link to mobile phone firm O2 for £30m (€44m).

The owner of electricals chain Currys was under the spotlight today following reports that it is to sell its struggling UK The Link chain to mobile phone firm O2.

MANY rural areas are being kept in digital darkness by being deprived of access to broadband telecommunications.

A television commercial featuring model Kate Moss is helping Virgin Mobile in its drive to pick up more contract customers, the telecoms firm said today.

The Luas extension through Dublin’s docklands to the Point Depot moved a step closer today after the Government received an application for the 1.5km route.

THE harrowing words spoken by the father of 28-year-old Sharon Grace, who drowned her daughters before killing herself, go to the heart of an Irish suicide crisis that claims the lives of hundreds of victims every year.

Asian manufacturers have beaten their Scandinavian rivals in the Christmas mobile phone stakes in the UK, according to a major high street retailer.

A partially-exploded incendiary bomb was discovered by staff in a Homebase DIY store in Derry tonight.

Electrical retailer Dixons today said continued strong performances by its Currys and PC World chains left it well placed for a year of progress.

Anne Robinson, as The Weakest Link’s Queen of Mean would say, used to have more lines than the London Underground.

From January 1, 2004 toll rates at both the East-Link and West-Link bridges will increase in line with the toll operation agreements for both facilities.