We are entering a period when many significant (mainly military) centenaries will be celebrated — the motivations, commitment and sacrifice of those involved now universally acknowledged in their native country.

PRESSURED by the unrelenting property boom, industrious young workers from Dublin embarked on a modest western migration.

Murray McDonald has been appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Waterford News and Star and Wexford Echo.

Wexford Echo group manager Murry McDonald has been appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Waterford News & Star and Wexford Echo.

NATIONALIST Tomislav Nikolic won the most votes in the first round of Serbia’s presidential election on Sunday but not enough to win outright, exit polls showed, setting up a run-off with pro-western President Boris Tadic.

Comedian John Cleese will speak at an annual gala dinner hosted by media group Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) in Cork on June 7.

FINE GAEL will fail to win a seat in one of the constituencies the party targeted for a key gain at the general election, according to the results of a new poll.

Media company Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited (TCH) has reported record results for the 53 weeks ended January 1, 2006.

Politicians in the North are today mulling over the detail of the potential deal for power sharing sketched out by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British prime minister Tony Blair.

IRISH EXAMINER owner Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) has bought The Echo Group of newspapers in Wexford.

A cache of 3,000 grenades, artillery shells and other bombs believed to have been left by Chinese forces at the end of the Second World War has been unearthed in a city in China’s north-east.

THE board of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited yesterday announced the appointment of Dr Ed Delany, BA, MBA (Mod) DBA, to the board of the company as a non-executive director.

Taiwan’s opposition leader and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised today to work together to end hostilities between Taipei and Beijing, during the highest-level meeting between the two sides since they split amid civil war nearly six decades ago.

Leading Irish media group Thomas Crosbie Holdings today appointed David O'Sullivan as chief executive officer (CEO) of The Irish Post newspaper.

A DEFIANT Ian Paisley last night laid the blame for the failure to secure a political deal firmly at the door of the IRA and Sinn Féin.

SCOTTISH Radio Holdings, (SRH) owner of Today FM and the Kilkenny People, expects revenues to increase by close to 15% this year.

Sinn Féin is likely to snub an invitation to meet a new commission which is monitoring paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland, a senior party figure revealed tonight.

TODAY FM owner Scottish Radio Holdings’s Irish businesses are not performing as well as its British assets, where full year sales are expected to rise 18% for the full year.

Sinn Féin was today deciding who its Northern Ireland candidate will be for next year’s European Parliament elections.

Arda Office Supplies has been acquired by the Office Centre, one of the country’s major distributors of office equipment & supplies, effective from Friday, October 25.

The British Army has set about increasing the height of the security walls throughout Belfast after further violent clashes between Nationalist and Loyalist groups during the week.