MAYONNAISE is a handy store-cupboard ingredient to try on hot broccoli, roasted vegetables, new potatoes, to add last-minute creaminess to a stir fry, or in grated carrot salad.

Eggsellent selection

Explore new horizons this season with an updated take on denim.

Roz Crowley and her three helpers put a selection of tasty Easter eggs to the test

The cabinet also discussed stockpiling medicines, working with wholesalers and buying land near ports and airports to be ready for a no-deal situation.

Roz Crowley gets a taste of the latest sliced beef.

A significant capital investment is required. I cannot ignore the crumbling — and indeed bobbling — infrastructure for much longer. I’m going to have to buy some clothes.

Budweiser has switched all its US brewing to renewable electricity and is adding a clean energy logo to its labels as part of a global shift to green power by its parent Anheuser-Busch InBev, writes Alister Doyle.

It’s the US import British retailers could do without.

Sterling fell to a near four-and-a-half week low against the US dollar today, as reports of a Tory plot to topple UK Prime Minister Theresa May cast fresh doubt over her future.

Retailer Marks & Spencer said improving profit margins and steady market share showed its struggling clothing business was on the mend, despite a 10% drop in annual earnings and sliding sales in the latest quarter.

I return to Bordeaux again this week after a fascinating recent vertical tasting and also because the wine world is full of talk of the potential of the 2016 vintage thanks to the recent en-primeur tastings.

Britain’s shock vote to leave the EU probably means a bad knock to consumer confidence. But that doesn’t need to feed through to bad vibes for all retailers.

Here are six basic principles to help you make the best decisions for your pocket, writes Gráinne McGuinness.

A warning from Marks & Spencer’s new boss of a short-term profit hit from efforts to turn around its clothing business by cutting prices and improving ranges knocked its shares yesterday. 

An income of €91,000 per annum is on offer in the €1.1m sale of a Douglas ‘village’ office investment in Cork.

Greencore has no ambitions to return to sugar production despite the new Government saying it will offer State support to prospective sugar beet processors — when sugar quotas expire in 2017 — in a bid to rebuild the industry here.

SWEET chilli sauces and condiments are part of Roz Crowley’s rescue remedy armoury.

Ted Baker’s full-year profit rose by nearly a fifth due to strong demand for its offbeat fashions and the opening of stores from Mexico to the Middle East, setting the UK clothing retailer apart from its rivals in a competitive market.

Reclusive elderly twin brothers from Cork, who were facing burial in a pauper’s grave after dying alone in London, could be brought home for a dignified funeral after a cousin came forward.

UPDATE: A cousin of the Kelly twins has been found and he hopes to bury them with their father in a Cork city cemetery.

There’s a host of new beauty items on the market. Katie Wright reveals the ingredients set to steal the scene in 2016

Marks & Spencer chief executive Marc Bolland will step down after failing to revive clothing sales in almost six years at the British retailing bellwether.

Marks & Spencer has been ordered to pay €40,000 to a former employee of its Dundrum store after the Equality Tribunal ruled that she was discriminated against when the store fired her on grounds of disability.

Fifty years of hard work has really paid off for the family-run Quinlan’s Kerryfish — the business struck gold twice at the Great Taste Awards.

Clothing retailer Next yesterday nudged up its annual sales and profit forecasts after beating its own guidance for first-half sales growth, boosted by warm weather in June and July.

SMOKED fish is a handy food, and it’s cheap and nutritious too.

VEGETABLE and fruit-based cakes make us feel less guilty, even virtuous. Getting one of our five a day in a cake sounds good, but are we kidding ourselves?

Some of Ireland’s biggest employers have been written to by the Data Protection Commissioner in order to assess their compliance after a worrying trend by some employers to force staff and applicants for positions to access and reveal sensitive personal data under Section 4 of the Data Protection Acts held by the Garda Vetting Unit.

A VISIT a few years ago to a pesto maker in Genoa, where the thick sauce originated, showed the wonders of fresh basil grown especially for it. With a fresh, heady bouquet, it was magnificent. 

IT won’t be long now before we are in between seasons with root vegetables on the wane and green vegetables and salad leaves slow to appear in the garden.

Marks & Spencer is to offer its army of small shareholders a discounted gift card instead of their dividend payment, the group said today.

Stand out from the crowd with a scattering of unique products, says Esther N McCarthy.

Marks & Spencer is to close five stores in China and shrink its Shanghai head office as part of a strategic shake-up, the British retailer said today.

Psychologist Oliver James tells Ellie O’Byrne why shoppers beating each other to a pulp over a cut-price flatscreen is a classic symptom of ’affluenza’

What's the story, and where are the good deals?

A female employee of Marks & Spencer got into hot water and lost her job after making and consuming a hot beverage on its premises without paying for it.

Tesco will reveal a steep fall in half-year profits next week in the wake of a catalogue of disasters including a £250m accounting error that has seen eight of its executives suspended.

The owners of a salon gutted by a fire which forced the evacuation of a major shopping centre have vowed to be back in business within days.

SCHOOL’S out so many families will soon be packing up the car and driving to France to stay at camp-sites or perhaps rented gites.

Sliding profits may have been on shareholders’ minds when they gathered for Marks & Spencer’s annual general meeting today, but many seemed just as concerned with the issues of plunging necklines and comfortable slippers.