THE promoter behind the ill-fated Lord of the Dance event at the Cliffs of Moher has, along with Clare Co Council, been left with a combined loss of a quarter of a million euro.

THE first open-air performances of Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance show, planned for Co Clare next month, have been postponed with less than a fortnight to go.

YESTERDAY’S announcement of 100 jobs lost at a Dublin services company has brought to more than 1,000 the number of jobs lost in companies around Ireland in just one week.

A US firm has announced plans to lay off almost 100 workers at its facility in the Blanchardstown area of Dublin.

MPO Group, which specialises in recorded media and storage capacities for consumer products, is to invest in the manufacturing capacity in its Dublin plant.