The rich just got richer, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List, which indicates that the total wealth of the country’s richest 250 people increased by just under €3bn last year.

The logistics group part- owned by former Formula One racing driver Eddie Irvine last year enjoyed turbo-charged pre-tax profits, which shot up by 57% to £580,025 (€698,226).

Dermot Desmond heads the list of Irish property investors with a personal fortune estimated at €1.7bn, according to trade magazine Estates Gazette’s rich list.

Red Bull’s Mark Webber insists he has “been around the block enough times” to not be fazed by his disappointing start to the new Formula One season.

Rachel Hunter is reportedly dating Eddie Irvine.

Some of Ireland's top music and sports stars have been hit hard by the global recession, according to the latest Sunday Times rich list.

FROM music to movies to motoring, Ireland’s richest celebrities are set to be unveiled and their wealth revealed.

COPERNICUS was a wise man, but he couldn’t hold a candle to Maureen Harding Clark.

FOR a long time we’ve known that cars are to men what clothes are to women.

HOLLYWOOD royalty turned out in force in Los Angeles on Thursday night to honour Van Morrison, Terry George and William Monahan for their writing and contribution to film.

EX-motor racing star Eddie Irvine has been directed to pay one of his former best friends over €300,000 after a falling out, between the pair, over the running of one of Dublin’s trendiest bars.

Pamela Anderson ditched playboy former motor racing driver Eddie Irvine because he isn't nasty enough.

Robbie Williams’s charity football team had a promising start to their training for Soccer Aid when they beat an England Legends team by a single goal.

Pop star Robbie Williams and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay today unveiled their line-ups for Soccer Aid.

SACKED pub manager John Foley was “devastated” after losing his job running ex-F1 racer Eddie Irvine’s trendy Cocoon bar.

RETIRED motor racing star Eddie Irvine has been branded "a coward" by his former business partner in a further escalation of a bitter legal row between the one-time best friends.

FORMULA ONE star Eddie Irvine refused an offer of €2.2 million from his former friend and business partner John Foley in order to gain total control of two Dublin pubs for himself, an Employment Appeals Tribunal heard yesterday.

A FORMER financial adviser of Eddie Irvine yesterday accused the Formula One racing driver of trying to blackmail him in an attempt to gain control of a US company in which they were both investors.

Jacques Villeneuve believes current Sauber team-mate Felipe Massa will prove his critics wrong at Ferrari next season.

Minardi boss Paul Stoddart has told prospective buyers to put their money where their mouth is as he is becoming increasingly fed up with timewasters.

THE former business partner of Eddie Irvine has claimed he was forced into giving the retired racing driver a 50% shareholding in two Dublin pubs in return for a €500,000 loan.

FORMER Formula One racing star Eddie Irvine is suffering losses of €2.3m over his investment in a popular Dublin pub.

THE unfair dismissal action against ex-Formula One racing driver Eddie Irvine by his former friend and business partner, John Foley, resumes this week.

Rubens Barrichello has warned Ferrari team-mate Michael Schumacher to expect no favours from now on after their post-Monaco row.

Former Jordan driver Eddie Irvine is reportedly planning a move to buy the outfit with whom he made his Formula One debut.

RENAULT managing director Flavio Briatore has become the latest Formula One figure to criticise seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher.

DOODLING may be the work of idle hands but it is far from frowned upon in one school which has assembled a collection of very special scrawls, scribbles and sketches.

Dublin-born racing driver Greg Murphy has signed for the Minardi Formula One team and will drive for their junior team in the Asian Formula Three Championship.

Eddie Irvine’s former business partner was the victim of a nakedly cynical strategy to oust him from their pub company, it was claimed today.

Former Formula One star Eddie Irvine used money from two pubs in which he had a 50% stake to stop cheques bouncing in a private account, a tribunal heard today.

FORMER Formula One driver Eddie Irvine was advised not to invest any more money in two loss-making Dublin pubs, a tribunal heard yesterday.

Former Formula One driver Eddie Irvine was advised not to invest any more money in two loss-making Dublin pubs, a tribunal heard today.

SPEND it like Beckham!

Lawyers representing former Formula One driver Eddie Irvine and his ex-business partner were today warned there was limited time to complete a fair employment hearing.

The Leaping Cat waved goodbye to Formula One with a whimper rather than a roar when Jaguar brought the curtain down on their brief grand prix career in Brazil.

FORMER Formula One racing driver Eddie Irvine claims he has lost €1.8m over his investment in one of Dublin’s trendiest bars.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of former Formula One driver Eddie Irvine after he was caught speeding on a scooter with no licence and no insurance, court officials confirmed today.

Michael Schumacher scorched to his first pole position in eight races at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza today.

Rookie Justin Wilson admits it is unlikely he will be able to repeat Eddie Irvine’s podium finish for Jaguar Racing at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Michael Schumacher has revealed for the first time how he feared he was going to die on the track at Silverstone.

MULTI-MILLION euro pub sales are still on the cards despite the economic downturn.

EDDIE JORDAN has claimed that the big fish in the Formula One pond are threatening the existence of the sport.

REMARKABLY there was still soap left in the men’s toilets for an almighty scrubbing up job had been done on Colin Farrell’s tongue.