Business groups today welcomed the measures outlined by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan to bolster the banking sector as well as details of the first tranche of loads to be transferred to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA).

A SMALL support group set up less then three years ago in North Tipperary to help people bereaved by suicide, is growing into a nationwide movement.

By Brian O’Mahony, Chief Business Correspondent

SMALL bombs exploded yesterday in seven cities around Spain after telephone warnings from callers claiming to speak on behalf of the armed Basque separatist group ETA, the Interior Ministry said.

A SMALL dairy co-operative in West Cork has bought a wind farm in a Northern border town at the cost of 8 million — because it has been unable to build one locally.