A judge has been asked to order a printing company to provide €3m security for the legal costs of its action over the loss of a valuable multi-year agreement to publish several newspapers.

More than 550 jobs are at stake in a bitter legal dispute over alleged trespass at the Cork offices from which the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo newspapers are now operating following restructuring of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings media group.

Cork-based printing company Webprint is to make 26 of its staff redundant.

A High Court judge yesterday held that the former CEO of a provincial newspaper who lost his job last year is entitled to damages for the loss which he has incurred as a consequence of his wrongful dismissal.

The Sunday Business Post newspaper is to seek up to 25 redundancies by the end of the year as part of a cost-saving restructuring plan, a court has been told.

The Irish Examiner kicked off a promising new era last night as the newspaper set about taking on the challenges of the changing media landscape under new ownership.

The Irish Examiner and a number of regional print titles and broadcast investments are being acquired by Landmark Media Investments Ltd. through a financial restructuring of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited after a receiver was appointed to the group.

The wife of former Tánaiste Peter Barry was described at her funeral Mass yesterday as “a lady in the best sense of the word” who had a caring heart that reached out to all.

THE busiest spot in Cork City right now has to be directly across the Lee from City Hall, along and behind Lapps Quay.

Former Roscommon Herald chief executive officer Brian Nerney has been refused an injunction restraining Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd (TCH) from dismissing him.

The price Thomas Crosbie Holdings paid Brian Nerney, former chief executive of the Roscommon Herald, for the newspaper in 2004 is to remain a secret at least until Monday.

A claim in court by a former employee of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd (TCH) that the newspaper group was in “a perilous financial position” was challenged in the High Court by the company yesterday.

An Irishwoman died tragically on holiday in Portugal on Wednesday night.

The challenges faced by media companies in a fast-changing sector have brought new pressures and opportunities to the industry, according to Tom Crosbie who is head of new media at Thomas Crosbie Holdings.

Media group, Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited (TCH), has announced a €10.7m fall in revenues for the 52 weeks to January 2, 2011.

A new online daily deals website, Tickles.ie, has launched in Cork.

LONDON-BASED newspaper The Irish Post which was placed into voluntary liquidation in August, has been bought as a going concern by Cork-born businessman Elgin Loane, for an undisclosed sum.

THIS week’s edition of the leading Irish newspaper in Britain, The Irish Post, will be its last.

The Irish Post newspaper, based in London, is to close with the loss of 10 jobs, it was announced today.

Irish Examiner chief executive Mairead Maher has resigned to become CEO at one of the country’s leading brand strategy and digital design companies, Huguenot, it was announced today.

A MAN who has crusaded tirelessly for the elderly for over six decades was yesterday named the Cork Person of the Year for 2010.

The Kingdom newspaper is to cease publication with the loss of 11 jobs — its final edition will hit the streets on Tuesday next.

THE Kingdom newspaper is to cease publication with the loss of 11 jobs — its final edition will hit the streets on Tuesday next.

The Sligo Weekender newspaper has been sold by media company Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH).

THE Sligo Weekender has been sold by Irish Examiner owner Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH).

Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited (TCH) has reported operating losses before interest and taxation of €2.95m for the 53 weeks to January 3, 2010. This compares to losses of €76,000 in 2008.

IRISH Examiner owner Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited (TCH) has written down the value of a number of media brands acquired over the last 15 years by €30 million.

VLADIMIR Putin, who has carved out a strongman image by wrestling with tigers or judo opponents, raised eyebrows yesterday as he was pictured caked in make-up, apparently to mask a black eye.

UNIONS representing staff at the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo newspapers are to start talks on Wednesday on a management request for a 10% pay cut.

STAFF at the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo are to be asked to take a 10% pay cut from October 1 next.

Media group Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) has sold one of its regional newspaper titles, The Newry Democrat, to the Alpha Newspaper Group for an undisclosed sum.

IT was a knife-edge battle of wits when two schools went head-to-head in the Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) All Ireland Schools Quiz yesterday.

THE chief executive of the Irish Examiner, Tom Murphy, has been appointed interim chief executive of the newspaper’s parent company, Thomas Crosbie Holdings, replacing Anthony Dinan, who announced his retirement as group managing director on Wednesday.

The chief executive of the Irish Examiner, Tom Murphy, has been appointed interim CEO of the newspaper's parent company, Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd (TCH), replacing Anthony Dinan.

THE managing director of Thomas Crosbie Holdings, Anthony Dinan, has announced that he is to retire at the end of next month.

The MD of media company Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) Anthony Dinan has today announced his retirement.

IRISH Examiner owner Thomas Crosbie Holdings made operating profits of €5.65 million in 2008.

SCHOOLCHILDREN will have the chance to win a computer for their school, have their work published and meet some famous people, courtesy of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd (TCH).

HIS devotion to his wife and family was remembered yesterday at the funeral Mass of the late George Crosbie, the former chairman of Thomas Crosbie Holdings, who died last Friday at the age of 83.

HALF of the problems Ireland now faces are “our own making” and not solely the fault of banks and builders.

THE Kerryman, which has been published in broadsheet format for 105 years, will from next week, along with its sister paper The Corkman, be in "compact format", its readers have been told in the current edition.

THE only seanachaí in the British House of Lords wants all members of the British parliament’s upper house to be elected and hereditary peerages abandoned.

CONTROVERSIAL author Jeffrey Archer delivered the keynote address at the Thomas Crosbie Holdings annual business dinner in the company’s South Mall headquarters last night.

JOHNSTON Press newspapers in the Irish Republic is on the market at a knockdown price, maybe as low as €50 million, according to industry insiders.