I love the west coast of Ireland. I’ve written here before about the south-west and all the things that capture me every time I go there. 

Enet has said it remains committed to the National Broadband Plan project despite one of the consortium’s major players dropping out of the process. Enet is the only bidder for the plan.

The recent release of new economic growth measures has again prompted a debate on regional — from which we can generally read urban versus rural — development in Ireland.

The Government has left the door open to the future privatisation of Irish Water, the Dáil heard last night.

When British prime ministers assume office, they usually deliver high-sounding speeches. Margaret Thatcher famously quoted from St Francis of Assisi back in May 1979.

A GOOD number of the difficulties facing this society can be traced to an over-reliance on the market to solve problems.

MICHAEL LOWRY yesterday lost a High Court bid to stop his trial on tax charges.

Vodafone is offering Irish shareholders a chance to dispose of their shares at a much reduced, or in some instances, no cost.

Plans to introduce a distinctive new 20p coin were shelved after it left consumers short-changed — a blunder which has turned out to be lucrative for some.

Eircom has unveiled its new identity as Eir and left behind the brand it had carried through good times and bad since 1999.

The long-awaited rebrand of the country’s largest telecom has been unveiled with Eircom becoming Eir — at an estimated cost of €16m.

Eircom is set to build on its performance recovery by undertaking a rebranding exercise, which is set to be unveiled this month.

UNDER the 2011 Programme for Government, a high-speed fibre broadband service was to be delivered to 90% of homes and businesses within four years.

The Naval Service is getting a new satellite communications system which will be operated by Irish companies.

Jim McGuinness revealed he had to overcome crippling self-doubt and a severe lack of confidence to become an All-Ireland-winning manager.

On Cork City’s Blackrock Road, Dundanion House has had commercial uses for 50 years, but would be a ‘grand’ home, says Tommy Barker.

It would go on forever, wouldn’t it? After all, look at the value of property. Up went the price of your house: Boom. Then there was a stage 4. This was the big dump where everyone got dumped, and dumped upon

“It would go on forever, wouldn’t it? After all, look at the value of property. Up went the price of your house: Boom. Then there was a stage 4. This was the big dump where everyone got dumped, and dumped upon.”

The Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo), the current ethics watchdog, has no teeth, so it is not able to bite.

A telephone in Castletownshend is testament to the notion of the common good, writes Órla O’Donovan

Gardaí probing the murder of pensioner Eugene Gillespie are investigating an anonymous emergency phone call to their station on Thursday.

I read in disbelief that the Government are proposing recouping the cost of water meters by means of a standing charge added to our water bills.

The ownership history of troubled telecom’s company Eircom made sad reading, Mr Justice Peter Kelly said in the High Court yesterday.

WHEN will the jobs be created?

CATHAL Magee is a man with rather a lot on his mind.

FOUR weeks ago in the Galway county football final, Alan O’Donovan, Corofin’s corner-forward, shot ten points against Tuam Stars.

LUXURY restaurant, food hall and wine cellar Fallon & Byrne saw profits increase significantly last year.

IT was destined for the scrapheap, but a rusted and outdated satellite dish will soon be transmitting sounds from the very edges of the known universe.

TAXPAYERS could be facing multi-million euro compensation claims from losing bidders for the state’s second mobile phone licence after the Moriarty Tribunal found that former Fine Gael minister Michael Lowry had helped Denis O’Brien’s Esat consortium win the lucrative competition.

BEN DUNNE and Michael Lowry sought to double the rent paid by the state for a property owned by Mr Dunne in a deal that would have doubled the value of the premises while leaving the taxpayer more than €3 million out of pocket.

An inquiry into payments to politicians has branded a rent deal linked to an Independent TD and businessman Ben Dunne as "profoundly corrupt".

LUXURY restaurant, food hall and wine cellar Fallon & Byrne saw pre-tax profits fall 28% when the economic downturn hit.

A Sligo woman who fraudulently claimed her dead father’s pension for six years has been given a 12-month suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

WHATEVER happened to the nation’s tried and trusted friend — the national loan — as a means of providing funds for infrastructural development while at the same time creating a secure investment opportunity bearing a reasonable return to subscribers?

The question of who exactly is going to benefit from the break-up of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has not been answered to anyone’s satisfaction.

THERE’S a famous conversation in one of the Sherlock Holmes short stories.

THE only white Ireland’s super rich care about this Christmas seems to be white gold.

WHEN Dermot Desmond bought the near-bankrupt London City Airport from the building firm John Mowlem he probably didn’t believe that 11 years later it would net him a profit of a cool €1 billion.

The Government has come under fire in the Dáil today over its handling of Ryanair's move to take over Aer Lingus.

HISTORY repeating itself — the second time as farce.

THE 45,000 customers of Smart Telecom are the latest casualties of the crazy decision to privatise Telecom Éireann.

Sinn Féin's communications spokesperson Séan Crowe TD blamed Ireland’s poor take-up of broadband on the “flawed broadband policies of this government and the Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey”.