DUBLIN based aircraft leasing companies RBS Aviation Capital and AWAS could be merged in a €4.5 billion deal.

Investment bank Citigroup has seized control of record label EMI from beleaguered financier Guy Hands, it was announced today.

A US jury began deliberating whether Citigroup tricked a British private equity firm into buying music company EMI in 2007 at an inflated price.

EMI owner Guy Hands is demanding that £2bn is cut from the music group’s debt pile as the price for calling off his court case against the investment bank Citigroup, it was reported today.

A woman in Britain told how she accidentally left her grandson in her burning house as she rescued her beloved dogs.

THREE goals in the opening 21 minutes paved the way for UCC to get their Fitzgibbon Cup ambitions back on track at a bitterly cold Ardrahan in south Co Galway yesterday.

RESPECTED rugby pundit, Stuart Barnes, expects the Lions Test team to be based around the Munster model, describing the European Cup holders as a team of winners.

An industry outsider was named as the new boss of private equity-owned EMI’s recorded music division today.

Thousands of EMI workers were facing the prospect of redundancy tonight after the music giant’s private equity owners announced a “revolutionary” overhaul to the business.

Staff at music giant EMI are today expected to discover how many jobs will be lost as part of a restructuring by the label’s new private equity owner.

Tyrone's grip on the Gaelic Life Dr McKenna Cup was loosened somewhat at Omagh this afternoon as a hungry UUJ side handed the Red Hands their first defeat in the competition in five years.

Lily Allen, Coldplay, Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue are among a number of acts under threat because of radical plans by British music label EMI to drop recording artists who are "not working hard enough" for their label.

The UK’s biggest off-licence business changed hands today after being sold to a team of private equity investors.

QUMAS, the Cork-based compliance-related software manufacturer is to change its management structure as it aims to increase its business presence in key international markets.

Conservative MP Greg Hands today called on British prime minister Tony Blair to use his “long standing friendship” with Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson to “lobby for (Wayne) Rooney’s inclusion”.

CORK software company Qumas took a major step towards a listing on New York’s NASDAQ yesterday as it announced a ground-breaking deal with one of the world’s biggest financial services heavyweights.