Michael Healy has been appointed as general manager in the Republic of Ireland for Deliveroo, the food delivery app service.

Several members of staff at University Hospital Kerry have been assaulted over the past year.

So Cork, what’s it to be? Incremental improvement or radical new thinking?

Frits Potgieter has been appointed as general manager of the 5-star Muckross Park Hotel & Spa in Killarney, part of the iNua Collection.

The Labour Court has recommended that the Brennan brothers’ five-star Park Hotel in Kenmare, Co Kerry, pay €90,000 to a general manager sacked in April.

New Zealand’s Canterbury Crusaders are targeting Ronan O’Gara for a sensational move to Super Rugby next season.

New Zealand’s Canterbury Crusaders are targeting Ronan O’Gara for a sensational move to Super Rugby next season.

V Stiviano, the woman whom Donald Sterling was talking to when he made racist remarks, is "very saddened" by his lifetime NBA ban, and she didn’t release the recording of their conversation, her lawyer said.

Waterford cut-glass light fixture among top lots at Woodwards sale, says Des O’Sullivan.

General Motors yesterday announced three more recalls, related to airbag deployment and other issues, and said it would take a $300m (€215m) charge primarily to cover the costs related to these actions as well as the previous recall for faulty ignition switches.

Australian Rules outfit Carlton Blues have officially announced the signing of Cork's Ciaran Sheehan, boosting the Irish ranks at the Melbourne club to three players.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who has emerged as Mr Romney’s leading challenger in the Republican presidential race, clashed over the US federal government’s power in a high-stakes debate that might have been the last in the roller-coaster campaign to challenge President Barack Obama.

A SOUTHERN California man was sentenced to six years in prison for infiltrating computers belonging to women and teenage girls where he found sexually explicit photos and threatened to put them online unless they provided him with more.

THE weather continues to paralyse the Irish racing scene with Cork and Clonmel the only southern tracks able to race last night and already as many as six of tonight’s meetings cancelled.

The weather continues to dominate the greyhound headlines and it was a blank countrywide last night with both Shelbourne and Kilkenny called off due to safety reasons.

IRELAND’s north west region is celebrating its status as Europe’s leading golf destination for next season.

GENERAL manager of Cork’s Clarion Hotel, Charlie Sheil, is taking the top post as GM of the new Gibson Hotel at the Point Village in Dublin this month, ahead of its scheduled June opening.

The Saab car brand is to disappear after owner General Motors announced today it had failed to find a buyer.

TWO bombs ripped through crowded Indian markets yesterday in the troubled north-east state of Assam, killing at least seven people and wounding 60.

The chief executive of General Motors apologised for asking for US taxpayers' money today as the Big Three of the American auto industry prepared to plead with the US Congress for more than $34bn (€26bn) in loans.

The $25bn (€20bn) rescue plan for the car industry, desperately sought by Detroit’s beleaguered Big Three American carmakers, collapsed as Congress drew the line at one more bailout.

IT WAS most interesting to hear Minister of State for Food and Horticulture Trevor Sargent say on RTÉ that more abattoirs were needed so that farmers could have their cattle slaughtered closer to home.

Wales head coach Gareth Jenkins has dropped Brent Cockbain from his World Cup plans - and given a surprise call-up to uncapped Gloucester lock Will James.

Stocks surged higher today after new data soothed inflation concerns and the price of oil tumbled to its lowest level in five months. The advance carried the Nasdaq composite index to a new 52-week high.

THE international kings and queens of chess arrived in Cork yesterday ahead of the largest chess competition ever held in Ireland.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has agreed to acquire control of Hughes Electronics Corp and its DirecTV service, America’s largest satellite television provider, in a $6.6bn (€6bn) cash and stock deal.