Men are paid 24.2% more than women in Bank of Ireland as the organisation publishes details of its gender pay gap.

Bank of Ireland has announced it suffered €3.4bn in pre-tax losses last year.

Buiding company Heiton, familiar to consumers through its ownership of the Atlantic Homecare chain, has announced pre-tax profits for the year ending April 30, 2004, of €28.8m, up 29.7% on the previous year.