A total of 101 new jobs are being created by three Irish technology companies.

A pilot programme aimed at rehabilitating drink and drug addicts persistently in trouble is to be set up in the East Cork town of Youghal.

Kentz, the Irish-founded engineering services group, has been awarded a $50m (€38.3m) support services contract with the Russian subsidiary of US oil and gas giant, ExxonMobil.

The Financial Services Ombudsman has received very few complaints about the three weeks of interruptions experienced by Ulster Bank customers.

The Irish Rugby Union Players’ Association (IRUPA) has downplayed fears that more of its members will be forced to quit the game due to injuries.

The Scotland Yard chiefs who quit over the phone-hacking scandal have been cleared of misconduct.

MORE medical card patients will be charged for routine blood tests as an increasing number of GPs struggle to keep their clinics open, the Irish Medical Organisation has warned.

With rescue teams finding new corpses by the hour, the Australian wildfire death toll was expected to soar past 200 today.

Police will be on high alert in Belfast today with hundreds of republican protesters set to demonstrate at a contentious Armed Services homecoming parade.

THE latest pathologist to have his work examined by the HSE is still under investigation in Britain and has been suspended until the outcome of the investigation is known.

The woman convicted of allowing a Dublin city centre apartment to be used as a brothel has claimed she owned "the whole escort operation" but denied she would earn up to €2m a year from it.

A jury in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been shown video footage of the garda raid on an alleged brothel call centre in the International Financial Services Centre area of the city in October 2005.

Now that Ferdy Murphy’s string have clicked in to gear, he can be followed with confidence and Another Promise holds outstanding claims in the Anne Duchess of Westminster Memorial Handicap Chase at Bangor.

MENTALLY ill offenders should be offered the option of a treatment programme instead of prison, Fine Gael TD Dan Neville said yesterday.

FARM Waste Management grants are devalued by up to €5,000 because the construction costings used are 19 months old, according to ICMSA.

WITH the last weary refugees rescued from the Superdome and Convention Centre, New Orleans turned its attention yesterday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses.

As floodwaters rose around Charity Hospital in New Orleans, rescuers needed their own rescuing.

MUCH has been spoken and written about nursing homes since the RTÉ Prime Time programme exposed the problems in one privately-owned institution.

Fire fighting services around the country are to undergo a €27m upgrade.

A COURT ruling on Monday, ordering Ryanair to pay compensation to three Belgian flight attendants, is being used by both opponents and supporters of the controversial EU draft Services Directive.

It is believed that a young man has been blown into the sea at the Cliffs of Moher

THERE has been a dramatic rise in the number of young people abusing a cocktail of alcohol, cocaine and cannabis.

Rescue services have recovered the body of an Irish woman who failed to disembark from a ferry in Holyhead last night.

The state funerals of ten IRA revolutionaries in Dublin are a Government trick to fool people that the British occupation of the north is ‘‘normal’’, a party conference heard today.