C & S Neptune player-coach Lehmon Colbert hopes his side can maintain their unbeaten record when they host UCD Marian in the Men’s Super League at the Neptune stadium tomorrow.

A startup is on a mission to change our sleeping habits and get us bouncing out of bed in the mornings.

Garvey’s Tralee Warriors suffered a heartbreaking 97-88 defeat to Templeogue last night.

A man serving a lengthy sentence for discharging a shotgun while shouting a death threat got a six-month jail term on drugs charges yesterday.

Ireland’s biggest fuel forecourt supplier Topaz has moved to cement its position as market share leader by announcing plans to open a 24-hour motorway service station on the Cork to Dublin motorway.

A man accused of defecating in front of a shop employee at a Limerick filling station, last Christmas Eve, was refused bail, at Limerick District Court, Tuesday.

UCC Ambassador Glanmire 61 Courtyard Liffey Celtics 48: Not a game to remember but the achievement will live in the memory.

The signs of economic recovery are evident in the latest snapshot showing increased discretionary spending on leisure, holidays and even Valentine’s gifts.

There is a cracking double-header in store at the National Basketball Arena on Sunday with leaders Templeogue, C&S UCC Demons, and Killester involved in two crucial games.

Family businesses are the solid base upon which the Irish economy stands.

Paul Kelleher has experienced the highs and lows of basketball in recent seasons but the UL Eagles coach is confident his new role in Limerick will be a success.

The parent company of Irish-owned oil company Maxol Ltd had an increase of close to 30% in net profit last year as it continued to take advantage of what is termed in its annual return as “the opportunities resulting from the recession”.

Two motorists involved in driving off from different garages without paying for petrol were in court yesterday where one got a one-year driving ban and the other was jailed for seven months.

The age of 21 is a milestone, so this year the fireworks will be brighter as the Spraoi festival in Waterford comes of age.

Irish petrol station chain Maxol is set to invest €35m in the expansion of its all-Ireland service station network.

A potential world champion weightlifter will be sentenced for IRA membership next week at the Special Criminal Court.

Maxol have announced that they will support Ireland’s Track Cycling champion Martyn Irvine.

The price of petrol is set to fall in the next two weeks despite a warning from the IMF that oil could double in price over the next decade.

There may be a silver lining in the dreaded double dip recession as the price of crude oil fell to a three-month low on fears that a renewed recession will hit demand.

IT IS midnight and my husband and I are sitting at the kitchen table.

A champion power-lifter, on trial for IRA membership and firearms offences, told gardaí that he was on his way home from giving a building estimate when “all hell broke loose” and he was arrested by detectives.

The trial of two Louth men on firearms and IRA membership charges has opened at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Motorists are being warned to expect higher prices at some petrol pumps in the coming days.

A 63-YEAR-OLD man working as a cashier in a busy petrol station was caught on CCTV pocketing €6,000 in notes paid by customers.

THE McMullan brothers, owners of the Maxol oil company, were paid€1.7 million in dividends last year, despite pre-tax profits at the company plunging 74% to €3.5m.

One of the men on trial in a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" robbery case told gardaí he knew one of his co-accused and was buying a car from him at the time.

LEARNER drivers may soon face examination on “green” issues in the driving test as the Government aims to promote better driving habits among motorists.

SAFETY is paramount in any sport, but particularly in motorsport. From the start of next season, the HANS device will be compulsory in Irish rallying.

The outgoing president of influential lobby group IBEC today urged the social partners to be prepared to take some pain as they attempt to strike a new deal.

ONE of the country’s biggest petrol retailers is calling on the Government to continue an excise relief scheme for the sale of biofuels, describing the current market as an unfair playing field.

IRELAND is the third biggest market for cars run on biofuel. It is behind only Sweden and France.

CARBERY Milk Products in Ballineen, Co Cork, has tapped into a new market — Ireland’s motorists.

THE article on Maxol’s proposed biofuel mix for vehicles (August 29) brought back memories. I worked with a an Irish oil company during the 1960s, when two State-sponsored factories were producing alcohol from potatoes, grown on contract by local farmers.

A teenager who set fire to a car wash in a petrol station and robbed the same shop 18 months later armed with a golf club has been sentenced to four years in prison by Judge Desmond Hogan.

BE careful not to bring any horse-loving children with you when you visit Foxbrook... they won’t let you leave without buying it.

AN EXCLUSIVE forecourt partnership between the Maxol Group and BWG Foods worth €80 million per year in retail turnover was expanded yesterday.

CONSUMERS who heat their homes with oil are enjoying the lowest prices in a year just as they are about to stock up for winter.

PETROL and diesel prices have edged closer to an average of €1.30 a litre, driven by supply uncertainty on world markets.

OIL giant Shell is in talks to sell off its 50 petrol stations in Ireland.

ESSO is to buy three petrol stations from Maxol. Esso will take over Maxol sites at Dublin Airport, Palmerstown in west Dublin and on the North Road in Drogheda.