Independent bus tour firm, Paddywagon last year enjoyed another bumper year as pre-tax profits increased by 6% to €1.2m.

Combined revenues at the firms operating the JD Sports and Champions Sports brands topped €110m last year but profits fell.

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.

In one incident, the worker “had misjudged a situation and pressed the emergency stop on the machine which cost four weeks of production”.

Pre-tax profits more than doubled at industrial diamond manufacturer Element Six — in which De Beers has a large stake — to $30.8m (€27m) last year.

The directors of the firm which operates the Aughinish Alumina refinery said as recently as mid-September they expected a solution to be reached with the US Treasury over sanctions imposed on the Limerick company’s parent.

The planned new State-funded injecting centre for chronic heroin and cocaine addicts in Dublin’s inner city is to cater for around 60 addicts each day and is to open at 6.30 each morning.

Gardaí have arrested a 49-year old Co Mayo man concerning the alleged daytime rape of a 75-year-old woman in Ennis last Thursday.

That’s nice…the runaway global success of Brendan O’Carroll’s foul mouthed mammy, Agnes Browne resulted in Brendan O’Carroll and his wife, Jennifer Gibney sharing a dividend windfall of €1.3m last year.

Profits at the company behind the annual Electric Picnic music festival fell 9% last year.

A coach firm sacked one of its drivers after he posted on his personal Facebook page a photo of a wheel on his bus that was in danger of coming off the bus’s axle after most of the wheel’s nuts fell off.

The likes of U2, Hozier and Christy Moore shared in a royalty pay-out bonanza of €28.1m made by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) last year.

Gordon Deegan The 5,000 people working at sites in Cork, Galway, and Clonmel for Boston Scientific helped the US medical device manufacturer post a dividend of $1.8bn (€1.5bn) out of Ireland to its parent last year.

A judge said today “it wasn't a swim job, it was a paddle job” after hearing that a nearby river was only one foot deep where Gardaí apprehended a 25-year-old escapee.

The private firm that is shutting down the largest direct provision centre in the capital received payments totalling €27.5m from the State over an 11 year period for operating the centre, new figures show.

Operating profits at the Odeon cinema group in Ireland fell 30% even as popcorn and sweets buoyed sales.

Shoplifting amid chaotic scenes at an overcrowded shop during ‘Storm Emma’ contributed to the loss of €30,000 worth of stock.

The cost of shutting down the only Irish-based manufacturing plant of pharmaceutical giant Roche, along with the loss of 240 jobs, has contributed to combined pre-tax losses of over €112m at the Irish unit of the business over the past two years.

A judge has told a mother that to deprive a child of education “is child abuse of the worst kind”.

Mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor has withdrawn his application to register his ‘Notorious’ moniker as a trademark for selling whiskey and other alcoholic drinks across Europe.

The company behind The Temple Bar pub in Dublin is again toasting bumper earnings — as profits increased again last year to €3.4m, or €65,575 a week.

According to accounts just filed to the Companies Office, Callan’s Catchy Title Ltd enjoyed a bumper 2017.

The operator of one of Ireland’s most storied pubs, O’Donoghue’s, has become ensnared in a planning row with the next-door neighbour, French restaurant Marcel’s, on Dublin’s Merrion Row.

A fashion retail firm co-owned by entrepreneur and lifestyle guru, Pippa O’Connor recorded profits of over €850,000 in its first 15 months in business.

The two hotels owned by the Lee Hotel Group — the Mespil Hotel in Dublin and the Sligo Park Hotel — both recorded healthy rises in profits and revenue last year.

Pre-tax profits at the Goldman Sachs-backed hotel firm, Tifco Ltd, jumped 36%, to €5.48m, last year.

The Workplace Relations Commission has ruled that Applus, the national car test firm, was right to sack a test centre administrator who is alleged to have told a customer ‘f**k off'.

An IT engineer who left a trail of debt behind him after borrowing a sum of just under €50,000 from six colleagues at his firm has been sacked for violating the company’s expenses policy.

Hotelier and businessman Michael Holland gained €10.47m when he sold his Irish Welcome Tours business last year. The sale of the business in July last year contributed to pre-tax profits at Mr Holland’s Ampleforth Ltd increasing almost three-fold to €14.6m for 2017.

U2’s planned visitor centre for Dublin has been branded "oppressive, intimidating and unattractive" with concerns that it will have “a devastating impact" on the Docklands area and its residents.

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary lost out on almost €1m in bonus pay last year after volunteering to waive all of his performance bonuses as a result of the pilot-rostering failure at the airline.

A circuit court judge has hit out at the ‘absolutely outrageous’ conduct of feuding traveller families in Ennis telling them that it is ordinary workers who are funding their legal aid.

Accumulated profits at the main firm owned by rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll last year almost topped the €6m mark.

Niall Horan has added to his fortune by paying himself almost $3m (€2.58m) from his new solo-music firm over a 17-month period.

The IDA spent almost €17.2m funding its operations overseas last year.

The Tuam firm at the cutting edge of driverless car technology returned to profit in 2016 to record pre-tax profits of €6.6m.

A landlord has been ordered to pay €6,000 in compensation to a rent allowance-approved couple after being found to seriously discriminate against them.

The appointment of a receiver to sell Tony O’Reilly’s stake of 6.8% in the five-star Dromoland Castle will have no impact on the operations on the hotel, its chief financial officer Joe Hughes has pledged.

Nine men today walked free from court for their role in a "ferocious encounter" at a halting site where a number of petrol bombs were thrown and other weapons were used.

The State Examinations Commission (SEC) reprinted hundreds of copies of two Junior Cert exam papers for students in the Ennis area after deleting exam content in its response to the tragic double drowning of two Ennis 15-year-olds.

Pre-tax profits at the main Irish arm of online auction company eBay last year almost doubled to €6.2m, newly-filed accounts show.

Planning permission has been granted for a new €40m hotel at Portobello in Dublin in spite of opposition from comedian, David McSavage and scores of other local residents.

Ambitious new €75m re-development plans for the iconic Central Bank building that includes a new 360-degree 300-seater rooftop restaurant and bar have been given the green light.

The firm that owns Thomond Park posted an operating profit as gate revenue for the Munster stadium doubled to €2.6m in the 2016/17 season.