This week’s Irish Open at Royal Portrush will not suffer too much from the lack of a title sponsor, leading sports marketing expert Padraig Slattery believes.

The GAA’s stadium and commercial director Peter McKenna remains optimistic about Croke Park staging an NFL regular season game next year.

TIMES may be tough in the financial world but there are still good stories in the business sector, one of them coming from the travel industry with news of an expanding East Cork Travel group.

ALMOST €10 million has been paid to Irish consumers in the past three years over the collapse of travel agents.

FOLLOWING the collapse of Kerry-based Slattery’s and Stein Travel and their subsidiaries, another travel agent has been drafted in to deal with all existing bookings which the companies had.

ONE of the country’s leading travel agents has ceased trading, throwing hundreds of people’s travel arrangements into chaos and putting yet more travel agents on the dole queue.

SOUTH African specialists, Slattery Travel, offer an expanded programme for the 2008/2009 season.

One of Ireland’s oldest camera shops is to cease trading tomorrow after more than 60 years on Dublin’s O’Connell Street.

SELECT Hotels of Ireland have launched a deal to encourage Irish families to check out undiscovered regions of the country.

CORK County Council may be facing a substantial bill for damages following a landmark ruling against a concrete firm which has been operating a massive facility without planning permission.

THE Northern Ireland Tourism Board has published a new brochure offering hundreds of options for the traveller short of time.

SLATTERY’S Sun is offering Christmas away from the cold, damp and possibly snow, with flights from Dublin, Cork and Shannon over the festive season.

ANYONE interested in sailing or boating holidays? If so, it should be worth going to Malahide, Co Dublin, for this weekend’s Boat Show where holiday offers are available from €280 per person.

A CONCRETE firm operating part of a massive facility without planning permission is supplying material to one of the State’s biggest road building projects.