The directors of a top hotel which has been a landmark in Irish tourism for more than a century and a half, yesterday moved to ease concerns among customers arising from its forthcoming sale.

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It’s been a bruising few years for the agency and it’s not over yet, writes Business Correspondent John Walsh.

DEFENCE Minister Alan Shatter has announced a shock independent investigation into the deaths of three Irish peacekeeping troops killed in a controversial circumstances in 1989.

TWENTY-THREE children with special needs were welcomed into their new school in Dublin this week and then told an hour later that there was no place for them.

IT has been a tough few years for the Irish hotel industry.

PLANS for 38-metre high observation wheel for Killarney are being welcomed enthusiastically by the local tourism industry – but some local traders are claiming it could cost them business because of lost parking space.

EDUCATION Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s plans to cut hundreds of special needs assistant places could force a vital special needs school to axe a series of courses on the curriculum, its principal has claimed.

IT looks increasingly likely that an unseemly row about horse dung in tourist haven Killarney – which likes to be known as the more lyrical Heaven’s Reflex – will be resolved in the courts.

IRISH and foreign-owned companies added less than 4,000 net jobs in the international tradable goods and services sectors in the 10 years 1999-2008, as overall employment grew by more than half a million.

GARDAÍ suspect that romantic jealousy may have sparked a tragic murder-suicide among of group of young people in Co Wicklow.

TULLOW Oil, the Irish oil and gas company now headquartered in London, has been boosted by a strong endorsement of the group by a London-based analyst.

Cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of America’s largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, apologised to the hundreds of people who will get a share of a €488m settlement over allegations of clergy sex abuse.

VICTIMS of clerical sex abuse in the United States have claimed that a€478 million settlement by the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will not make the pain end for victims.

For decades, the Los Angeles Archdiocese ignored parishioners' sex abuse complaints and shipped accused priests between therapy and new assignments, according to newly released personnel records involving 126 clergymen.

AFTER a half-century reporting the news, one of Ireland’s most respected journalists is finally making headlines himself.

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THE Irish Management Institute has pulled out of Killarney for this year’s annual conference.

A SCHOOL principal fighting to give severely disabled students a summer camp appealed to Education Minister Noel Dempsey directly yesterday to give him €5,000 for the project.

TULLOW OIL had good news for shareholders yesterday when it announced the discovery of gas at a well in Bangladesh.

THE shift to a high-wage high-cost economy raises doubts about the continuing presence of some hi-techcompanies in Ireland.