Boots Ireland is to open a new store in Cork city later this year, its 55th in Ireland, the company announced today.

Struggling furniture chain MFI was today given shareholder backing for the sale of its 200 stores for just £1.

An unlikely mix of people will don their football boots later to take part in an all-stars charity match in aid of the victims of the Asia tsunami disaster.

Call centre operator Merchants has been named Best Outsource Partner at this year’s Irish Contact Centre Awards.

British perfume retailer Merchant Retail today posted a 15% hike in half-yearly profits to £3.6m (€5.1m) despite a period of “great uncertainty” in which it decided to pull the plug on its department stores.

The Assistant Director of the Merchant's Quay Project in Dublin is warning that the substance abuse problem in the rest of the country may be worse than many people realise.