If you’re thinking of starting a business, the south midlands region of north Munster and south Leinster is the safest place to do so.

THE combined value of Irish-related merger and acquisition & activity fell by just over €8 billion, on a year-on-year basis, in the first nine months of this year.

A pensioner who kept his wife’s body at their home for months after she died may have been too grief-stricken to report her death, neighbours said today.

More than a third of owners of small businesses in the UK see fraud as the single biggest threat to their company, research claimed today.