Corporate finance firm Key Capital and former Irish Daily Star managing editor Paul Cooke have agreed a deal to buy the Sunday Business Post.

The deadline for interested parties to submit bids for the Sunday Business Post to the company’s examiner passed yesterday.

Ivan Yates is set to quit Newstalk and abandon his media career as he faces bankruptcy over debts of about €3.5m.

God loves a trier and on the salmon season’s opening day last Wednesday Peter Wolstenholme hooked the first salmon of the 2012 season on the Bandon Salmon & Trout Anglers club waters.

BOSSES at Newstalk radio have hit back with a scathing retaliation against departing presenter Eamon Dunphy after he claimed management interference in his editorial freedom forced him to quit his weekly show on the radio station.

RTÉ radio has suffered a major setback in the latest JNLR listenership figures, which show major losses for its programmes to the benefit of Today FM and Newstalk.

A SURE sign that Tony O’Reilly is no longer in control of Independent News & Media was provided by the way the newspaper giant closed down its Sunday Tribune title.

RTÉ maintained its dominance of the national airwaves during 2009 according to the latest Joint National Listenership Research results, although its pop station 2FM continues to lose audiences.

MORNING Ireland continues to dominate the airwaves as the latest radio listenership showed it top of a pile of resurgent RTÉ programmes.

GERRY RYAN has once again seen a slump in his radio audience in the latest Joint National Listenership Research figures while his fellow RTÉ host Marian Finucane enjoyed yet another significant increase.

AN POST has allayed fears that post office services could be lost to one of Ireland’s premier tourist spots.

THOUSANDS of Cork hurling supporters queued throughout the day to snap up all available tickets for Sunday’s Guinness Munster SHC final at Pairc Uí Rinn.

GAA fans may be able to watch video clips from championship matches on their mobile phones within the next two years.

Ireland could face an unsatisfied demand for the estimated 14,000 new IT professional jobs that are forecast in the Irish marketplace in 2005, according to an Irish Computer Society (ICS) backed European survey.

Frank Cronin has been appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer in the 35 year history of the Irish Computer Society (ICS), www.ics.ie.