PUBLIC relations firm, Murray Consultants said its focus has shifted from product launches to crisis management as it records an 88% increase in pre-tax profit to just over €946,000.

ONE of the country’s largest public relations firms has reported a surge in pre-tax profits for last year.

THE Referendum Commission for the Lisbon treaty spent €2.7 million of its €5m budget on media advertising.

OPPONENTS of the Lisbon treaty sparked a war of words yesterday after claiming the independence of the Referendum Commission had been thrown into doubt because of alleged links to the yes campaign.

MUNSTER’S leading crane hire firm, William O’Brien Plant Hire has taken delivery of a €1 million mobile self-erecting crane, the first and only one of its kind based in Ireland and Britain.

PUBLIC relations company Murray Consultants has appointed Ed Micheau as an account director.

PR firm Murray Consultants has appointed Pat Walsh as its new managing director.

Public relations firm Murray Consultants has appointed Elaine O’Mahoney as an account director.

Manchester United’s biggest shareholder will “vigorously contest” legal action by Sir Alex Ferguson over the racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, it emerged today.

IRISH Independent owners IN&M may have to sell off its Middle Abbey Street headquarters in central Dublin to pay back a portion of the €270 million of its massive €1.35 billion debt which falls due this year.

THE proposal to build an incinerator in Tipperary has seen one of the country's biggest businesses pitched against a local family backing the plant.