Five Britons including a father and his teenage son who died when a whale-watching boat sank off the coast of Canada have been named.

Two former executives of defunct Russian oil company Yukos Oil have joined the board of Irish explorer Petroceltic.

Petroceltic’s contentious $100m-share placing plan is expected to get the green light next week, on the back of the firm agreeing a major restructuring of its board with its largest independent shareholder.

“Everybody goes on about the urban wasteland of Cleveland. We never even heard the phrase until we started touring around and journalists came up to us and started going about urban wasteland. And we’re going, ‘Huh? What, is that a suburb we never heard of?’.”

Knockcroghery, successful on the flat at Bellewstown on Friday night, made a quick return to action at Limerick yesterday and landed The At The Races Rated Hurdle.

Irish exploration company Petroceltic is set to take control of British oil exploration and production company Melrose Resources in a £165m (€210m) deal which will basically double the size of the Dublin-based firm.

Research by Ulster Bank has found that many small businesses have a mental block when it comes to exporting outside of Ireland.

Ulster Bank has placed €2m worth of eggs into one basket, in the hope that laying hens can hatch a return.

A SUPERMARKET group owner has taken over as president of Waterford Chamber of Commerce and vowed to forge closer links with other bodies in the south-east.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a man in connection with a gangland-style murder outside a pub in Finglas last year.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a man in connection with a fatal shooting in Finglas last year.

Vital clues on the latest gangland killing to hit Dublin could be held by members of the public who were socialising and shopping near the murder scene, gardaí indicated today.

A MAN in his 40s has been shot dead in what is believed to be related to a long-standing gangland feud in north Dublin.

Video game retailer Game Group saw shares in the UK tumble as much as 14% today after a sell-off by the company’s two most senior directors.

Further evidence of a recovery in the UK hotels sector emerged today after Whitbread said its Marriott business had returned to growth.

An Irish firm is helping finance a potential £157m (€228m) bid to take UK chain Jarvis Hotels back into private ownership.

THERE is considerable worry among prospective travellers about the risk of contracting SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).

A Dublin man who was given a suspended sentence last year for shooting two gardai and for possession of firearms and ammunition walked free from court again today when he was charged in connection with a road rage incident.

The father of a man who plunged to his death at a charity bungee jump event broke down in tears today at the opening of an inquest into the tragedy.