Cathy Kelly’s latest book expores the most stereotyped of relationships - that of two sisters. Áilín Quinlan reports on the love/hate twist in the family tale.

It was mum’s the word when a Tipperary butcher’s beef dripping won the supreme champion award at the Great Tastes Awards.

The man pioneering the development of seafood bars in Ireland has unveiled plans to create 120 jobs through a major expansion of his family-owned chain.

Fifty years of hard work has really paid off for the family-run Quinlan’s Kerryfish — the business struck gold twice at the Great Taste Awards.

Concentration camp survivor Tomi Reichental has turned his childhood horror into something positive, speaking out against racism and tracking down Nazis, writes Ailín Quinlan

Cork Constitution 26 Garryowen 22: Munster Senior Cup final: Individual quality contributed handsomely to Cork Constitution’s latest victory.

The multi-million-euro battle for control of three of London’s most prestigious hotels pitting Irish businessman Patrick McKillen against billionaire brothers David and Frederick Barclay has finally been resolved.

A RECENTLY let, double-tenanted building on Cork’s suburban Douglas Road, by St Finbarr’s Hospital, is up for sale as an investment, for €1.5m.

Munster Under-19s 13 Australian Schools 16

Former Ireland and Munster great Alan Quinlan has questioned the motivation of English and French clubs in their bid to derail the Heineken Cup.

Billed as an Irish-British grudge match, Paddy McKillen is taking on the Barclay twins — owners of the Ritz London and ‘Daily Telegraph’ among more — for ownership rights to London’s most prestigious hotels, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A PIONEERING Kerry restaurant has been named the Bord Iascaigh Mhara Seafood Restaurant of the Year 2012, beating a wealth of top class seafood outlets for the honour.

IN 2007, the three families behind the Jurys Doyle hotel group decided to sell a sizeable chunk of the business.

A DUBLIN home formerly owned by Derek Quinlan, once one of Ireland’s richest men, may be sold and used by the Belgian embassy, according to reports.

SEAFOOD specialists in the south and west have again dominated this year’s Seafood Circle awards.

The chairman of one of the country's leading business groups is accusing the Government of mis-management, incompetence and reckless trading.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman and bankrupt Sean Fitzpatrick has a net income of just €188 per month, documents furnished to the High Court have revealed.

MUNSTER’S worsening away form threatens to scupper their hopes of defending the Magners League title following this latest defeat.

ALAN Quinlan doesn’t hesitate when asked about Munster and Treviso today. The big flanker puts the crucial Heineken Cup clash in sharp focus.

MUNSTER have confirmed that Alan Quinlan will lodge an appeal following his 12-week ban.

WHEN we’re bad, we know how bad we can be.

Denis Leamy will start for Munster against the Ospreys in their Heineken Cup quarter-final contest in Thomond Park on Sunday afternoon.

THERE’S no better man in a push, but when it comes to the real test rugby ace Alan Quinlan reckons women are tops.

A YOUNG plasterer was murdered by two men near his home in Cork shortly after the victim had a row with his ex-girlfriend, the prosecution claimed at the outset of a trial yesterday.

Alan Quinlan never gave up hope of reviving his Ireland career but was still left “shell-shocked” by his selection for the Test against New Zealand tomorrow.

QUINLAN PRIVATE, the Dublin-based international private investment firm, has sold a 50% stake in its Jurys Inns business to the Middle-Eastern Oman Investment Fund (OIF) for about €200 million.

ALAN QUINLAN could make dramatic return for Munster in the province’s penultimate Heineken Cup pool game against Clermont Auvergne on Sunday week.

TWO men were charged yesterday with murdering a young father of two in Mahon in August.

Quinlan Private executive chairman Derek Quinlan, in partnership with property investment company Propinvest, has completed the £1bn (€1.4bn) acquisition of 25 Canada Square in Canary Wharf in London.

QUINLAN Private has launched a €450 million joint venture with a Hungarian property company to develop 178 hectares (440 acres) of land in the eastern European country.

PRIVATE equity group, Quinlan Private and German real estate group FOM Real Estate have announced that they have formed a joint venture which sees Quinlan Private acquire a 50% interest in a recently developed office and hotel complex in the city centre of Frankfurt valued at €60 million.

QUINLAN Private, the investment vehicle run by Derek Quinlan, is reportedly the front-runner to buy the hotels brand owned by Marylebone Warwick Balfour.

One of London’s best-appointed hotels was sold today as part of a £1.1bn (€1.6bn) transaction involving 47 Marriott sites.

MIXED NEWS for Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan before the upcoming tour to Australia and New Zealand.

PROPERTY investors advised by one of the country’s top investment groups, Quinlan Private, have bought the Diagonal Mar Shopping Centre in Barcelona, Spain, in the largest ever single real estate deal in that country.

ALAN QUINLAN could return to bolster Munster’s Celtic League bid, a month ahead of his expected return from injury.

THE Four Seasons Hotel in Milan, which is owned by Irish investors, has been sold for around €200 million.

Hot toddies were the order of the day again in Clonmel yesterday, another fresh morning.

JURYS DOYLE shares hit €18 per share in early trading yesterday, raising expectations of a challenge to the Precinct bid of €17.50.

QUINLAN PRIVATE, the investment vehicle run by former tax inspector Derek Quinlan, has once again snapped up another major part of London.

PROPERTY speculator Derek Quinlan has sold the prestigious Savoy Hotel in London for an estimated £210 million.

DEREK QUINLAN has emerged as a potential bidder for the £2.2 billion (€3.1bn) British property company Chelsfield.

Quinlan group swoops and steals Savoy deal