The above photographs of an industrial plant outside Tullamore show the sheer sophistication of a professional cannabis factory.

TO one seasoned community worker, who is far from a scaremonger, the cannabis now is not cannabis as previous generations know it.

Gardaí have seized more cannabis herb and cannabis plants this year than during the whole of last year.

The Walt Disney Company chief executive Michael Eisner has been compared to the hunter who bagged Bambi’s mother, but he is also responsible for the firm earning $1bn in the first three months of its financial year. Kyran Fitzgerald reports.

French department store chain Galeries Lafayette today emerged as a favourite to buy at least part of Marks & Spencer’s troubled French operation.