Cork’s rising literary star Louise O’Neill has scooped the Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year award for her second novel — Asking for It.

Struggling homeowners can save almost €55 on their energy bills after Bord Gáis Energy confirmed a raft of gas and electricity price cuts.

SSE Airtricity has fired the latest shots in a price war among domestic energy providers by unveiling a 20% unit rate discount to new and returning customers, which it claims is Ireland’s cheapest home electricity offer.

Families struggling to cope with the rising cost of utilities could be set to benefit from cheaper gas prices thanks to the deregulation of Bord Gáis Energy.

Just a month after it was announced Bord Gáis was increasing its electricity prices by 2.2%, it has confirmed it is upping its gas prices, with yearly bills set to rise by €13 on average.

Thousands of Bord Gáis electricity customers are to be hit with a 2.2% price hike from March as its winter price freeze comes to an end.

More than 300,000 households will get a welcome winter break from energy price hikes after Bord Gáis Energy said it is to freeze prices for the winter.

Household gas bills will rise from next month following a decision by the energy regulator to sanction an increase.

A senior source within the Department of Public Expenditure has said that the €250,000 pay cap will not be breached in order to attract a new CEO to Bord Gáis.

Bord Gáis has partially won the rights to develop the first tidal energy farm to be built off the coast.

Hard-pressed families face soaring health insurance premiums and higher energy costs from the middle of this month — with worse to come.

As one-in-five households struggle to manage their energy bills the cost of running homes this winter is set to rise again.

There is increasing uncertainty over the status of negotiations between Bord Gáis chief executive John Mullins and the semi-state body over his future role with the company.

Ireland has the potential to produce renewable energy far in excess of what the country requires to power itself.

WORK will commence in October on a €400 million Bord Gáis power plant in Cork, creating 300 jobs.

A total of 300 new jobs will be created when Bord Gáis begins building a new €400m power plant at Whitegate, Co Cork, in October.

Dublin 2-19 Dubs Stars 0-10

Today will see Ballyboden clubman Stephen Hiney pull on a Dublin jersey for the first time since July 2005, as the capital side take on the Dubs Stars in the annual end-of-year clash.

BORD Gáis has confirmed it hopes to have its first gas-fired power station operational by 2009, at a cost of nearly €300 million.

BORD GÁIS is planning to build a €300 million power station on the site of the Whitegate oil refinery in Cork.

Bord Gáis today has signed a heads of agreement for a 25-acre portion of the ConocoPhillips site at Whitegate, Co Cork, with the intention of developing a €300m 440 MW gas-fired power plant.