This is the second time this has happened as the funds from their 2012 single ‘Tiny Dancer’ were tied up in the receivership of HMV 2013.

A woman who burgled an elderly man’s home with an accomplice posing as a garda has been jailed for three and a half years.

Tomm Moore has already enjoyed a night at the Oscars for his Song of the Sea, and now the animated feature is about to be released in Ireland, writes Ed Power

Going against the flow of bank-branch closures, the former West Cork branch of Permanent TSB, in Bandon, is for sale or to let, only because the bank has relocated to a larger premises.

Residents of a Cork suburb have warned they will take to the streets if their area is not added to a tax incentive scheme designed to encourage regeneration.

In just one week they notched up nearly 10,000 YouTube hits, broke into the top 50 of the Irish iTunes charts, attracted fans from as far away as Kathmandu, Boston, and France — and now they’re set to perform in Cork Opera House.

A moving new song, which celebrates the beauty of a West Cork town at Christmas time and expresses the sense of loss felt by local people forced to emigrate, is to be launched this week.

A Dublin man who was pictured in a newspaper as a fatal victim of hypothermia yesterday settled, for an undisclosed sum, a €38,000 damages claim in the Circuit Civil Court.

DVD sales and rentals of ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie’ are largely driving profits at the newly combind Xtravision/HMV business this year, the company has said.

During the 2011 Ryder Cup in Medina Golf Club, Chicago, television cameras captured Rory McIllroy as he looked into a cloudless sky to see ‘GO RORY!’ being spelt out by a plane emitting puffs of smoke from its bowels. He stopped, took out his phone and took a photo.

Twenty Xtravision shops are to close with the loss of 120 jobs.

Xtra-vision, which employs 1,024 people across the island of Ireland, is set to appoint a receiver today.

The battle to save Blackpool post office has begun, writes Eoin English

Carrying the name of one of the most famous yachts to ever sail out of Crosshaven in Cork, the bar the Moonduster Inn is due a sale rendezvous at the next Allsops auction early December.

Irish boxing star Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan is still on target for a world title shot in 2013 — and next month he takes the latest step on that road.

LOTS of units are moving on Cork City’s MacCurtain Street in the run up to Christmas.

In the depths of the economic slump Tipperary firm AdSmart has built up a business devising marketing strategies for embattled retailers struggling to maintain footfall in their stores.

POLITICIANS love small businesses.

POLITICIANS love small businesses. They appoint a token junior minister (John Perry), with special responsibility for their needs.

Troubled DVD rental chain XtraVision is due back before the High Court later.

Xtra-vision's outlets will continue to operate as normal following the appointment of an interim examiner to the company, the High Court heard this evening.

Those who left explosives in a busy street in the North have the same recklessness as the Omagh bombers, Chief Constable Matt Baggott said today.

A SIGNIFICANT shift is occurring in business management.

A robber who used a taxi from a nearby rank as his getaway car has been given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A robber who stashed his ill gotten €200 in his boxer shorts has had been sentenced by Judge Katherine Delahunt to four years in prison for robbery, burglary and assault.

CHILDREN as young as four are being targeted by a mobile phone company that has created a special child’s phone with simple child-friendly features.

GARDAÍ in Tralee were questioning a 41-year-old local man last evening in connection with a brutal assault in the town last March.

Gardaí in Co Kerry have begun a search for two men who held up a video store in Killarney.

A €10,000 reward has been offered for information on a man who went missing from his Limerick home eight years ago.

TELEPHONE evidence in the Wayne O’Donoghue trial was crucial in establishing the whereabouts of Robert Holohan on the day of his death.

The following is a transcript of the evidence of Rebecca Dennehy, girlfriend of Wayne O'Donoghue.

A man who falsely imprisoned and threatened to kill two female employees during a video shop robbery has been jailed for six years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Irish Film Board (IFB) has said films co-financed by the board in the first three months of 2005 have been snapped up for overseas distribution.

The Irish film and video industry is being dominated by pirates selling counterfeit DVDs, it was claimed today.

A drug addict who committed over 40 crimes in less than a year, including dousing a service station assistant with petrol and threatening to burn him, has been jailed for 13 years.

A chronic drug addict who doused a filling station assistant with petrol and threatened to set him alight, before robbing money from the shop and getting away in a stolen car, has been remanded in custody for sentence on June 15.

MOVIE fans can help seriously ill children simply by renting their favourite films.

CINEMA-LOVERS are to benefit from a decision by five major Hollywood studios to launch a service that will allow movie fans to legally download films over the internet.