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Mitsubishi are the latest motor company to become embroiled in a scandal involving rigged emission levels on its’ cars.

Mick O’Dwyer has given Kerry a ringing endorsement ahead of Sunday’s Division 1 final with Dublin, lauding the older generation of players who have impressed this spring.

We could be looking at the next Jack Yeats, Francis Bacon, or Robert Ballagh if the quality of this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Compeition was anything to go by.

In day four of our special report on rural Ireland we visit Ballydehob, Co. Cork.

Ever in advance of Port of Cork’s move from sites in Tivoli and Cork city’s docks, the first handful of changes are starting to take place on Cork city’s eastern fringes, either side of the landmark Silversprings hotel - an entity which changed hands itself last December as part of the €455 million Dalata Hotel Group takeover of the Moran-Bewley hotels chain.

The staff sit-in at a Cork filling station is set to continue into a second week despite claims from its former operator that the business has been taken over and the jobs are safe.

Staff at a petrol station in Cork city which was closed suddenly have begun a sit-in tonight.

A Finglas man has pleaded guilty to robbing over €30,000 from a petrol station in Blanchardstown earlier this year.

Cold case detectives want to question two men who shared a taxi with a woman on the night a young mother was brutally murdered and dumped in the Dublin mountains.

Some 220 jobs are hanging in the balance as Valero aims to restructure its Irish operation Texoil.

A Texaco service station operator has agreed to stop selling a rival’s fuel, the High Court heard yesterday.

SUPERQUINN’s second change of ownership since being established by Senator Feargal Quinn’s family in the 1960s comes as no real surprise and has been on the cards for some time.

There will be many star trackers in action at Tralee tomorrow night.

HOW good must it feel in the skin of Henry Shefflin these days? Forget, for a moment, all the honours won, the nine All-Star awards, seven All-Ireland senior inter-county medals, five National Hurling Leagues, three Railway Cups, two All-Ireland club senior titles, twice named hurler of the year (on the treble – Vodafone, GPA and Texaco), and Sports Person Of The Year In 2006.

DCC has further boosted its British energy division by acquiring Scottish fuel distributor Brogans for €47.2 million.

Nine top Irish sports stars - two of whom are joint winners of the Horse Racing award - have been chosen to receive the 2009 Texaco Sport Stars of the Year Awards.

DISTRIBUTION and support services group, DCC has expanded its energy division again, with the £9.5 million (€10m) takeover of British business, Cooke Fuel Cards.

UCC DEMONS and DART Killester are not just top of their respective conferences in the NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague — both share unbeaten records and that will end after tomorrow night’s clash at the IWA gym in Clontarf where they cross paths for the first time this season.

TWENTY-FIVE Irish sports clubs were awarded Texaco bursaries yesterday. Twenty clubs from the Republic of Ireland and five from Northern Ireland were presented with their awards at a ceremony in Dublin.

THE Irish market started the week lower in line with most European markets as Commerzbank tumbled after agreeing a deal to buy Allianz’s Dresdner Bank for $14.5bn.

Business support services group DCC has completed the acquisition of the trade, assets and goodwill of Chevron Ltd's UK "equity distributor" business.

Services group DCC said today it has agreed to buy Texaco's fuel distribution business in the UK for €27.5m.

Business support services group DCC has announced that it has reached agreement for its subsidiary, GB Oils, to acquire the trade, assets and goodwill of the Chevron Limited UK Equity Distributor business.

ADM Londis plc, one of the leading retailers in the country, has reported a 20% jump in pre-tax profits to €6.1m as a result of more store openings in 2007.

ONE of the country’s biggest petrol retailers is calling on the Government to continue an excise relief scheme for the sale of biofuels, describing the current market as an unfair playing field.

SHANNON AIRPORT plans to lease out its aviation fuel farm to a private operator.

ADVANCE warning signs of “No Petrol Ahead” could soon be erected in rural Ireland as service stations close down their pumps, a retailers group has warned.

18-year old Longford student Rose Toolan from Loughill, Coolarty, was announced as the overall winner of the 52nd Texaco Children's Art Competition today.

CONCERNS over a possible fuel shortage at Dublin Airport on Monday resulted in delays and aircraft having to refuel in airports overseas, sparking fears of a summer of chaos for air passengers.

A MAN of Eastern European origin was arrested yesterday in Fermoy following an intensive manhunt after a young woman travelling to work was abducted at knifepoint from a garage almost two weeks ago.

Fire crews hope to extinguish an “apocalyptic” blaze at an oil depot today.

FIRE crews resumed their battle at the scene of an “apocalyptic” blaze at an oil depot in southern England last night after fears of a fresh explosion receded.

A HUGE fire was raging in southern England last night after a series of explosions ripped through an oil storage depot in what is thought to be the largest incident of its kind in peacetime Europe.

GARDAÍ have launched a major manhunt after a young woman travelling to work was abducted at knifepoint from a garage.

STEPHEN O’NEILL completed a clean sweep of the individual awards when he was named as the Vodafone footballer of the year last night.

AN oil expert warned yesterday falling oil reserves could trigger a major global economic recession in the longer term.

Hurricane Rita steamed toward refinery towns along the Texas-Louisiana coast with 120mph winds early today, creating havoc even before it arrived.

PETROL and diesel prices have edged closer to an average of €1.30 a litre, driven by supply uncertainty on world markets.

The Government should scrap a 2003 VAT increase on petrol and diesel in light of rising fuel costs, it was claimed today.

The Consumers' Association has condemned Texaco for increasing the price it charges for petrol and diesel.

From midnight tonight the price of petrol could be taking a massive leap.

British bank HSBC's customers are to get the chance to tap their feet to music as they stand in queues for cashiers’ desks, it emerged today.

The survey has found that the average price of a litre of petrol at 98.8c had fallen by over one cent, when compared with the ODCA survey of 9 to12 August where the average price was 99.9c.