An Irish DJ has been invited to rock Glastonbury.

Men are in big demand in Kinsale.

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien is fighting a bid by Revenue to overturn a decision that he was not liable to pay nearly €57m in tax in Ireland around the same time he started living in Portugal.

A private firm is challenging an alleged contract between Bus Éireann and the education minister for a bus service providing transport for 123,000 students.

A director of two firms that formerly held six Abrakebabra franchises has been ordered by the president of the High Court to pay almost €1m in unpaid taxes and penalties.

LEGAL actions brought by An Taisce and others over the manner in which consents were granted for the Corrib gas project have been settled and withdrawn at the High Court.

Retired Fine Gael politician Liam Cosgrave was shocked to learn he was to be charged with receiving alleged corrupt payments for rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990s, the High Court heard today.

BUILDING materials group Grafton said January trading was “badly affected” by the bad weather and resulted in sales plunging €25 million below the level a year earlier.

A drug addict who was involved in three high-speed Garda chases in the space of a year, two while he was disqualified from driving, has been given a suspended sentence and ordered to perform community service.

A Dublin city-centre man who drove a stolen high-powered motorbike while wearing a pair of shorts and a t-shirt has been remanded on bail pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for dangerous driving.

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a West African man wanted in the Netherlands for allegedly trafficking children from Africa to Europe where they are used as prostitutes.

A teenager who stole over €10,000 worth of video games by posing as a courier and picking up what he claimed was an incorrect delivery has been sentenced to two years detention by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Russian national who raped a Dutch woman in Dublin city centre last year and threatened to kill her and her boyfriend has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

THE family of a woman whose body was found suspended from railings has called for a criminal investigation into her death to be re-opened after an inquest jury returned an open verdict.

JOHNSTON PRESS, the Scottish newspaper group, has splashed out more than €240 million to become the largest regional publisher in Ireland with the takeover of the Leinster Leader Group and Northern Ireland’s Local Press company.

The Leinster Leader group of newspapers is likely to be sold British newspaper publisher Johnston Pressfor €139m.

THE Leinster Leader group of newspapers is on the market with a price tag of more than €100 million.

THE Leinster Leader newspaper publishing group saw profits rise by more than 50% last year.

THE directors of building materials and DIY group Grafton received a 27% pay hike last year.

THE chairman of the builders merchants Grafton Group is nearly €15 million richer after selling part of his holding in the company.

Online ski operator, directski.com, has announced that it has recorded its first ever profitable season.