IN the current economic climate, I would expect that Irish Rail would be making every effort to accommodate customers.

IRISH housebuilding group, McInerney Holdings — which recently posted a loss of €25 million, before exceptional items, for 2009 — slightly increased its total remuneration to executive directors last year from €2.23m to just over €3m.

The National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships commenced at the National Stadium in Dublin yesterday with thirty seven preliminary round and quarter final bouts in the Boy 1& 2 categories.