Virgin Media Ireland increased revenue by 2% to €100m in the three months to the end of June despite declining customer numbers. The company said revenue edged higher in the second quarter of the year as more customers availed of its “high value offerings”.

The constant jangling of wind chimes in a neighbour’s back garden was described by 83-year-old pensioner Mary McBride as a deliberate act of cruelty against her and her husband Eddie.

TONY HANWAY has been appointed chief executive of Telefonica/O2 Ireland. He replaces Stephen Shurrock, who only took up the role late last year.

A woman gave birth today just hours after her husband was murdered in a machete attack as he lay in bed beside her.

BRITAIN’S leading interactive services company, AOL UK, which opened its call centre in Waterford four years ago with twenty five employees, is to create an additional 125 full-time jobs in the coming months, bringing its total workforce in Waterford to 650.