The Data Protection Commissioner received 31,455 queries in 2015, many of which related to complaints surrounding electronic direct marketing.

The Irish Times and Littlewoods Ireland have avoided court convictions for breaking privacy regulations by sending customers unsolicited emails.

The Irish Times and Littlewoods Ireland have been given chances to avoid criminal convictions for breaking e-privacy regulations by sending customers unsolicited emails.

From jumpsuits to festive flats, there’s a new festive uniform, says Annmarie O’Connor.

Kya deLongchamps takes a look at the latest techniques in interior design which hark back to earlier times and ancient methods for applying pattern and colour.

Your summer holiday is less than a week away, you never shifted that extra weight from Christmas, you didn’t get to the gym past February and now you’re dreading your holiday pics hitting FaceBook. It’s time to learn the cheat’s guide of how to look good in photographs.

Kya deLongchamps looks at breathing new life into faded furniture and considers some great couch cover ups if you don’t want to replace or buy new in the sales.

Primark opened its doors in France last month, the same year they recorded a 44% increase in yearly profits.

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Gives new meaning to the term ‘travelling lightly’.

More than 100 jobs are to be created over the next three years at three Irish firms in Galway and Dublin.

Singer Lana del Rey is the latest star to promote a fashion brand. Annmarie O’Connor scales the highs and lows of celebrity collaborations.

1. Half way between mod and antique French styles, this stripy console table will both brighten your room, and add elegance with its shapely legs.

Add a little flutter to your walls with the butterfly box art trio, €23.50 from Littlewoods.

Online retailer Littlewoods could be left counting the cost after eagle-eyed shoppers spotted a seven-piece furniture set worth €899 for sale on its website for €21.

OUR 5-year-old leather couch is starting to look a little scuffed. What’s the best way to care for leather furniture?

HARRY POTTER actor Daniel Radcliffe is the wealthiest British star under 30, according to a new rich list.

Coleen Rooney appears as a fashion authority figure in her first ad fronting a £4.5m (€5.45m) campaign for retailer Littlewoods.com, it was revealed today.

UP to 1,000 jobs could be lost at An Post if the downturn in commercial business caused by the recession does not improve, a senior trade union official has warned.

SHOPPERS thought they had landed the bargain of the year when Littlewoods were offering a home computer and monitor for €69 on its Irish website.

UK football pools firm Sportech today said it was turning around 15 years of declining interest in the competition as it unveiled a 39% rise in annual profits.

British high-street brand Woolworths is to be relaunched as an online store after the name was today bought by the UK’s biggest internet and home shopping retailer.

STEAMING bowls of hot vegetable soup and tasty casseroles are associated more with the winter months, but the continuing bad weather has sent consumers indoors in search of comfort foods.

Two of the UK’s best-known football pools businesses – Littlewoods and Vernons – could be about to join forces.

Three major high street retailers today lost court appeals against price fixing charges.

LIVERPOOL supporters have spoken of their surprise at reports of an imminent takeover bid for the club.

Home shopping firm Littlewoods Shop Direct announced plans today to close three warehouses with the loss of 1,200 jobs.

Associated British Foods hailed the “outstanding” performance of its Primark retail chain today after group profits rose by 12% to £590m (€872.5m).

The FTSE 100 Index moved closer to a new four-year high today after gains by stocks such as takeover target Scottish Power lifted spirits.

Clothes retailer Primark was today preparing to bolster its presence in the UK after deciding to hold on to more former Littlewoods sites than originally planned.

British supermarket chain Morrisons said today that it had been encouraged by recent trading after like-for-like sales showed a 5% improvement.

Fashion retailer Primark picked up 120 Littlewoods stores today in a £409m (€594m) deal for some of the UK’s most prominent high street sites.

Bidding for 119 Littlewoods stores in the UK was today said to be down to a single party after fashion chain New Look reportedly pulled out of the running.

Troubled British supermarket group Morrisons appeared to have won important breathing space today as the City gave its backing to a major boardroom overhaul.

Liverpool chairman David Moores, who has been under fire for much of the past two years, thanked his wife Marg and the club’s fans for encouraging him to stay at the Anfield helm.

Retailers Argos and Littlewoods vowed today to continue their fight against record fines for fixing the price of toys and games after an appeal in the UK found the penalties were fair.

Northern Ireland has been hit with job losses announced by retailer Littlewoods.

Staff at axed British catalogue business Index will today discover if their jobs are likely to be among 3,200 to be cut by the chain’s owner Littlewoods.

British retail group Littlewoods is to cut up to 3,200 jobs after announcing plans today for the closure of 126 of its Index catalogue-based outlets.

East Stirling are refusing to give up hope of bringing Paul Gascoigne to the club.

Greencore has appointed David Simons as a non-executive director. Mr Simons is chairman of British retail chain Littlewoods and will take up his new position from July 1.