A €4.6m writedown in assets contributed to pre-tax losses increasing by 57% to €10m at the slimmed down O’Dwyer hotel and pub group last year.

Pre-tax losses at the slimmed down O’Dwyer hotel and pub group decreased sharply to €6.3m in 2010, new figures show.

The O’Dwyer and Kehoe family farms at Heathpark, New Ross, Co Wexford, will stage the 2012 National Ploughing Championships, with other local landowners providing hundreds of acres for parking.

IN Thurles Sarsfields’ march to Sunday’s Munster club SHC final against De La Salle (Waterford), one player has been ultra-consistent — midfielder Michael Gleeson, lately added to the Tipperary hurling panel.