A little over 18 months ago, Lahinch’s infrastructure was battered and bruised by winter storms — but it has been making a strong recovery. Now there are plans to capitalise on the Clare resort’s growing reputation as a watersports destination, writes Gordon Deegan.

THE outcome of a High Court challenge to the constitutionality of laws under which a statutory minimum wage and working conditions were fixed for 25,000 hotel workers outside Dublin and Cork will have significant implications for 250,000 workers whose wages and conditions are fixed under the same laws.

THE Government has been accused of hypocrisy over its backing for a new guide to the social welfare system just weeks after it campaigned against equal rights for agency workers.