Senior gardaí have warned students against scam artists operating in Cork City and its suburbs ahead of the new college year and have also told farmers about a craze in quad bike thefts.

Pre-tax profits at the Dublin- based unit of Western Union last year rose 18% to $33m (€28.9m).

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Gardaí raided a brothel and found Western Union money receipts for €18,000 which were sent back to Romania in a three-week period.

A Latvian woman living in Limerick married a Pakistani man — despite being already married, a court heard yesterday.

A civic reception has been given to a global entrepreneur who has kept his feet firmly on Kerry soil where he grew his tiny operation into a world-leading brand.

Inflation at zero, rather than a forecast -0.1%, was not enough to shift sterling out of tight ranges on the run in to tonight’s US Federal Reserve meeting, widely expected to raise interest rates for the first time in almost a decade.

The streets around Gare de Midi are thronged with people on Sunday mornings buying vegetables, fruit, clothing. It’s known for big quantities and low prices.

The Central Bank said it won’t say whether it will use special powers to investigate any of Ireland’s main banks that survived the crash only with the help of bailouts.

Pre-tax profits at the main Irish arm of payment services giant Western Union increased by 9% last year to $38.39m (€34m), figures show.

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The Central Bank has fined Western Union €1.75m after the payment services giant failed to comply with money laundering and terrorist financing laws.

A woman accused of helping her friend take her own life denied to gardaí she knowingly paid for lethal drugs for the deceased.

Pre-tax profits at the main Irish arm of Western Union decreased by 22% to $35.15m (€24.76m), last year.

GINA Kerry rates the phone calls from strangers in Ghana purporting to have seen her missing aunt and asking for money to be wired through Western Union among the crueller hoaxes she’s endured in the 20-year search for her loved one.

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Occupying a single floor of a three-storey building in a suburban Dublin office park, Western Union’s offices are notably modest for the international headquarters of the world’s largest money transfer firm.

More than 60 years after a Co Cork man was shot dead in the US, police believe DNA may reveal his killer.

Pre-tax profits at the main Irish arm of money transfer giant, Western Union last year increased by 27% to $63.3m (€52.2m).

Almost 150 jobs are being created in three separate expansions, it has been revealed.

Dublin has seen the announcement of another 35 new jobs this morning.

THE whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said last night it was suspending publishing classified US diplomatic files to focus on fundraising “to ensure our future survival”.

The whistle-blowing group WikiLeaks today announced it was suspending its publishing operations and will “aggressively” launch a new fundraising drive.

REVENUES at the main Irish arm of money transfer giant Western Union last year increased by 18% to $49.9 million (€34.5m), new accounts show.

It is understood that 60 people are to lose their jobs at financial services company Fexco's in Co Kerry.

Expectant father Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr) is a workaholic who keeps in touch with his pregnant wife Sarah (Michelle Monaghan) via his mobile phone.

JOB offers are rolling in for a homeless Ohio man with a golden radio voice who has become an online sensation. And industry experts believe he could quickly become a millionaire.

The man whose heroism in the face of genocide was portrayed in the film 'Hotel Rwanda' was warned today he could face charges of financing terror.

FEXCO is to purchase AIB’s stockbroking arm, Goodbody, for €24 million in an intricate deal which will see senior management at the brokerage get a 25% stake in the firm and as many as 55 staff lose their jobs.

BANK customers have been urged to take precautions against a major internet scam after at least two dozen individuals were tricked into handing over thousands of euro in a fake “mystery shopper ” business deal.

THE cash-rich Co Kerry-based financial services company FEXCO is on the cusp of buying Goodbody Stockbrokers from Allied Irish Bank.

THE deal was this: to find a luxury one-week holiday on a golf course in Barbados during peak season when the cricket was on – for under €1,000.

One of Africa’s most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast international network of supporters in at least 25 countries including in United States and Europe, a United Nations report said.

Italian police arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping to fund and provide logistical support for last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.

FEXCO, the Kerry-based financial services and online travel bookings group, saw pre-tax profits increase from €1.44 million to €19.8m last year.

Gardaí are warning internet users to be wary of emails from friends claiming they have been robbed while abroad and need money to get home.

KERRY-BASED financial services firm Fexco has bought a majority shareholding in the New Zealand-based group, Federal Pacific for a multi-million euro sum.

KIDNAPPED at gunpoint, blindfolded, handcuffed and threatened. A dream trip to South America turned deadly for an Irishman and his girlfriend taken hostage shortly after arriving in the Bolivian capital of La Paz last October.

THE value of mergers and acquisitions in Ireland plunged 70% over the past year with food, health and energy the most active sectors.

A VAN travelled for nearly an hour through the streets of New York before its driver discovered the horrific cargo it had dragged almost 32km — the partially scraped-away body of a man who was ploughed over by a sports utility vehicle just before he got caught under the van.

A van travelled for nearly an hour through the streets of New York before its driver discovered the horrific cargo it had dragged almost 20 miles – the partially scraped-away body of a man who was ploughed over by a sports utility vehicle just before he got caught under the van.

GLOBAL money transfer services giant Western Union has acquired the equivalent business interests of Kilorglin-based financial services firm Fexco for €123.1 million.

A Czech national has today been given a mandatory life sentence by Mr Justice Liam McKechnie for murdering a Longford mother last year and a concurrent 13-year term for raping her on the same occasion.