Grainne McGuinness has some great tips to help you get your financial house in order this year.

Alcohol manufacturers spent almost €24m last year on advertising, an Oireachtas committee was told yesterday.

Thousands of irate Cork and Limerick hurling supporters were left empty-handed yesterday morning as technical issues played havoc with the sale of tickets for Sunday’s Munster decider at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Munster final ticket fever has been alleviated, if only a little, by news that a limited number of terrace tickets will be on sale today.

The GAA have reduced ticket prices by almost a quarter for the top games in the National Football and Hurling Leagues.

Battling the rising tide of cyber crime demands a local, national and global response, but above all common sense, writes Kyran FitzGerald.

More than 50 enforcement actions were taken by the National Consumer Agency (NCA) against supermarkets, car dealers and waste operators in the first half of this year.

When many of today’s coeliacs were diagnosed there was very little gluten-free food. Today there are far more options and coping mechanisms, says Áilín Quinlan

Interim Munster GAA CEO Simon Moroney has warned gate receipts are expected to drop again for the province in 2013.

The average spend by Irish shoppers on a visit to their local grocery store or supermarket has fallen to its lowest level in seven years.

GUINNESS and Etihad Airways have signed up to remain as associate sponsors of the All-Ireland senior hurling championship for 2012.

The cost of an average trolley of groceries has gone up by around 5%, according to a new survey.

EIRCOM will be named as the new associate sponsors of the All-Ireland football championship on Monday.

EIRCOM are understood to have had advanced talks with the GAA about replacing Vodafone as associate sponsors of the All-Ireland senior football championship.

VODAFONE will not be continuing their sponsorship of the All-Ireland senior football championship.

Retailer Musgrave has confirmed that it is to close its distribution depot in Galway with the loss of 143 jobs.

SAVING money is not just an imperative, it is fashionable, according to the founder of online discount website, pigsback.com.

CONSUMERS are not getting the best possible value for money in the Irish grocery sector due to planning restrictions.

TOP athlete Sonia O’Sullivan and radio star Ray D’Arcy yesterday kicked off a health scheme which will provide €1 million of sports equipment to primary schools.

ENNIS, Co Clare, has emerged as the winner of the 2005 Tidy Towns competition - just two weeks after it was branded one of the State’s dirtiest places in an environmental study.

PEOPLE power is the only thing that will force big businesses to lower their prices, according to one Meath woman who has already succeeded in getting cheaper grocery prices for her hometown.

The Irish retail market has been ranked seventh in the world in terms of per capita spend in a global Deloitte report.

Seamus Scally (aged 61), the mastermind behind building the SuperValu and Centra chain of stores is to retire as boss of the Musgrave Group, owner of the franchises.

SHOPPERS are still buying plenty of plastic, despite the introduction of a bag levy last March.

Information about the state of the BSE crisis is being distributed to butchers and supermarkets throughout Ireland.