If Pádraig Harrington is to end a six-year winless drought in capturing a third Alfred Dunhill Links Championship he will do so with a putter he painted himself.

The five-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, increased its operating profits by 44% to €4.5m in 2012.

The person hired by the Irish Stock Exchange to promote Irish companies listing on the exchange has left the position after seven months.

Multiple marital infidelities pitched him from the sports pages to front page headlines in 2009, but today Tiger Woods finds himself not only at the top of the world’s golf rankings but also at the pinnacle of the Forbes ‘World’s Highest Paid Athletes’.

Three-time Major winner Pádraig Harrington has re-signed with Wilson Golf in a multi-year deal that will see him continue to play Wilson Staff clubs on both tours from January.

A 40-YEAR-OLD Dane and a 20-year-old amateur share the lead at the British Open heading into today’s second round of the oldest major in golf as Royal St George’s once again conformed to its quirky reputation.

HALF of Cork has watched them being built, in defiance of the economic and housing downturn, tucked into a tight site on Cork’s Rochestown Road.

SPORTS World billionaire Mike Ashley has labelled investors dismayed by the plunging share price of the business since its February float as “cry-babies” in an interview yesterday.

A CITY centre theatre is fuming over plans by one of Cork’s biggest bars to open a roof-top smoking deck.

Concerns over the margins achieved by UK insurers helped drag the FTSE 100 Index into negative territory today.

UK housebuilder Wilson Bowden today offered further evidence that interest rate hikes were starting to restrain rampant house price growth in Britain.