Let's start with the good news about a public health risk that’s serious but which rarely features in media reporting: the number of anabolic steroids seized in Ireland during the first eight months of this year was up by 400% on the figure for the same period in 2016.

The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point but left its rate outlook for the coming years unchanged even as policymakers projected a short-term acceleration in US economic growth.

General Electric’s new boss is dramatically reshaping the company and slashing the dividend as he looks to pull the manufacturing company out of one of the deepest slumps in its 125-year history. The moves failed to win over investors.

Cork’s Simon Community says there is a growing need for increased services for homeless people in the city.

Worries about outflows from Standard Life’s flagship multi-asset strategy hit its shares, ahead of an £11bn (€12.2bn) merger with Aberdeen Asset Management to form the UK’s largest active manager.

Like-for-like sales at Tesco’s Irish operations showed marginal growth of 0.2% in the three months to the end of May — the first quarter of the British supermarket giant’s financial year.

The VHI Women’s Mini Marathon has been won by Ann-Marie McGlynn from Strabane, County Tyrone.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland is to seek the complete removal of extra lecturing hours imposed as part of the Croke Park Agreement.

 

None of Tesco’s 30,000 or so financial services customers on the island of Ireland have been affected by the weekend fraud attack on the supermarket giant’s banking operations.

There’s a good mix of house types in the popular Fort Hill development in Cork’s Moneygourney, outside Douglas by Garryduff and Rochestown, and the scheme done by Murnane and O’Shea is a consistent seller, says auctioneer Glenn O’Connor.

Verizon Communications agreed to buy Yahoo’s web assets for $4.83bn (€4.39bn), ending the company’s two-decade run as an independent business that took it from Stanford University startup at the dawn of the internet age to also-ran behind nimbler online rivals such as Google and Facebook.

The country’s oldest autism charity has admitted to difficulties getting services up to standard after its three residential facilities were taken out of its control by the HSE.

Rating agency Moody’s said the eurozone sovereigns’ ratings will likely remain stable in 2016-2017 but fading fiscal consolidation, limited progress on structural reforms, and rising political risks limit upside potential and create longer-term risks.

Sam Donnelly from Sam’s Barbers giving Chef Neven Maguire a hot towel shave for Fovember, farmers grow for Movember to raise awareness in mens health in the farming community at the National Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska, Co. Laois.

It’s a bright and breezy name for a fundraising campaign, but the deeper message behind Temple St Children’s Hospital Lemonade & Lollipops appeal is that your generosity can help transform little lives like Ellie Phillips.

THE common dormouse, made famous through the Mad Hatter’s tea party in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, has been found in Ireland and is being treated as a non-native species. 

The world’s first malaria vaccine got a green light from European drugs regulators who recommended it should be licensed for use in babies in Africa at risk of the mosquito-borne disease.

A police probe into allegations that the €1.5bn sale of Nama’s Northern property portfolio was connected to a major political pay-off has intensified calls for a top level investigation into the Government agency’s deal south of the border.

The High Court will rule tomorrow on RTÉ’s application to fully discharge an injunction restraining publication of certain information relating to the banking relationship between Denis O’Brien and State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (formerly Anglo Irish Bank).

Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald will likely only face a motion of censure for abusing Dáil privilege and alleging named individuals were evading tax, says the Government’s chief whip.

The spoils of moving first are now falling to Waterford start-up nearForm. Four years ago it was the first company in Europe to embrace an untried new internet technology called Node.js — now it’s becoming a leading supplier of this technology globally.

Banco de Madrid has stopped operations and is seeking protection from creditors after the US accused its parent, Banca Privada d’Andorra, of money laundering.

The change of use of the former Marymount Hospice building at St Patrick’s Hospital on Cork’s northside, to a third-level college, is not exempt from planning requirements, An Bord Pleanála has decided.

A bouquet may be lovely, but floral-themed treats mean a longer-lasting Valentine’s gift. Katie Wright picks the best of the bunch.

One of two patient representatives named on the HSE’s medical card clinical advisory group wants the body to agree and implement key issues to help families long before its three-month interim report deadline.

Tesco was dealt a new blow yesterday as Standard & Poor’s joined Moody’s Investors Service in cutting debt at the UK’s biggest grocer to below investment grade.

The repatriation of Tyrone-born drugs mule Michaella McCollum to the North from Peru has been approved by Stormont’s justice minister.

A complaint of imbalance about a same-sex marriage discussion presented on RTÉ radio by comedian Brendan O’Carroll has been rejected by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

Earnings at Paddy McKillen’s Irish restaurant, pub and nightclub entertainment group last year increased by 28% to €2m.

What should be the world’s biggest on-line jobs agency is getting closer to reality with Employment Ministers agreeing to beef-up the EU’s job search network.

The racehorse training and bloodstock firm operated by horse trainer Aidan O’Brien last year enjoyed a bumper year recording profits of €366,685.

The builders are coming to Cork’s Skehard Road, following on the €850,000 auction sale last week of a house on 1.25 acres there, and with a dozen or two dozen new homes now expected to replace that old five-bed dwelling and its garden. 

A replica, walk-through First World War trench which has been installed in Cork’s public museum will allow visitors to experience the dark, cramped, and brutal conditions endured by the millions of soldiers who died in trench warfare.

The Glucksman’s new exhibitions combine images of animals with creatures from UCC’s zoology museum, says Colette Sheridan

Up to 100 jobs will be created after the Government-backed BDO Development Capital Fund announced an €8m investment in Irish IT services company Version 1.