Transport Minister Shane Ross has ordered his officials to “make immediate inquiries” into revelations that Dublin Port managers spent hundreds of thousands of euro on company credit cards for flights, restaurants, and entertainment.

The couple who own some of Ireland’s best-known pubs, including Kehoes and The Stag’s Head in Dublin, shared a bumper pay-packet of €6.8m last year.

FAMED by a certain generation of Dubliners as one of the city’s great live music venues, a new version of the Baggot Inn opened to a different fanfare last night.