JESSICA Harrington’s Quartino followed his narrow win in a novice race at Bellewstown, with a more clear-cut success in the featured Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

DREAMY Gent made an impressive chasing debut in the Martin Tyrrell Auctioneers Beginners Chase at Ballinrobe last night.

DREAMY GENT is napped to make a winning debut over fences in the Martin Tyrrell Actioneers’ Beginners Chase at Ballinrobe this evening.

Liam Burke, better known for selling successful point-to-pointers, landed the feature event of the Galway Festival when Sir Frederick won the valuable William Hill-sponsored Plate.

THE frustrating Irish Invader can finally enjoy a victory over flights by landing the Hilary Murphy Travel Novice Hurdle at Wexford this evening.

Chris Gent resigned yesterday as Vodafone's life president following reports of a rift among the management of the British mobile phone group.

Former Vodafone boss Christopher Gent was yesterday named by GlaxoSmithKline as successor to chairman Christopher Hogg.

Vodafone’s former chief executive testified today that his company’s takeover in 2000 of mobile phone firm Mannesmann was determined purely by market pressures, and was not influenced by executive payments under scrutiny at the trial of the German mobile operator’s former head.

The Ohio power company under the spotlight following the biggest blackout in America’s history has said there were problems, including strange voltage fluctuations, in the Midwest power grid hours before its transmission lines failed.

THE probe into what triggered a blackout that left 50 million people in the dark zeroed in on an area just south of Cleveland in the US state of Ohio.

Chief executive of Vodafone, Chris Gent is step down after 18 years of service with the world's largest mobile phone operator.

Vodafone boss Christopher Gent today unveiled underlying profits of £8.43bn (€11.66bn) in his final full year at the helm of the mobile phone giant.

Sir Chris Gent, chief executive of telecoms giant Vodafone, is to step down in July, it was announced today.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone smashed expectations today by posting a 41% jump in underlying pre-tax profits for the first half of the year.

Vodafone Group PLC is aiming to sell about one milion camera phones across Europe by March next year, the Guardian reported quoting the company's chief executive Chris Gent.

GlaxoSmithKline boss Jean-Pierre Garnier is reported to have become the highest paid FTSE 100 executive.

The future of Vizzavi - the £1bn (€1.56bn) internet joint venture between Vivendi Universal and Vodafone Group PLC - was uncertain this weekend as the cash crisis at Vivendi worsened and the online group was forced to appoint an emergency chairman, it was claimed today.

Vodafone's UK chief executive Christopher Gent has been awarded the second half of his controversial bonus £1.5m (€2.4m) share package, it was disclosed today.

Vodafone bosses have awarded themselves a massive pay boost, with the group's chief executive winning a 407% pay rise.