Record sales are resurgent, but will the format ever again be more than a niche market, asks Eoghan O’Sullivan

Four of the 3,500 Irish patients fitted with allegedly defective DePuy orthopaedics hip joints have been given leave by the High Court to serve personal injury summonses on the US company.

Senator David Norris today settled a €30,000 Circuit Civil Court claim for public relations services provided for him during his presidential election campaign.