Katie Taylor capped off a hugely successful weekend for Irish women's boxing by winning her fifth successive EU Championship title in Keszthely, Hungary.

Katie Taylor will make her first appearance in Cork tomorrow night in her penultimate bout in Ireland before she jets off for the 2012 World Championships in Qinhuangdao, China, where she’ll be hoping to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.

LAST week an Irish aircraft leasing company, established just two years ago, managed to secure a $300 million (€219m) equity investment from the investment arm of the Singapore government.

Hollywood star Johnny Depp has been offered a staggering $10m (€6.3m) to become the face for American condom giant Trojan.

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MILLIONAIRE businessman Denis O’Brien is a true humanitarian who has given Trojan support to many worthy causes.

The record-breaking exploits of 20-year-old Dublin student Barry Murphy would seem to have gone unnoticed since this year’s international swim season began.

SWIMMING’S Long Course Championships came to a close yesterday on a high note, with 13 swimmers achieving international qualifying times, four new Irish senior records and two new Irish junior records to round off a very successful weekend.

IT’S a market where breakthroughs are usually unwelcome, but news of a Cork-based online business that offers the world’s top condom brands at rock-bottom prices won’t be covered up for long.

Rehabilitation in the swimming pool rather than a training stint was the preferred choice today as Ireland’s World Cup squad moved camp from Adelaide to Melbourne.

IRELAND’S criminal justice system is under intense public scrutiny as the spate of gangland murders in Dublin and Limerick shows little sign of abating.

British actor Orlando Bloom, who stars in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is set to appear in a movie with Hollywood star Brad Pitt.