A Tallaght bar and nightclub owner will be sentenced next year for health and safety breaches that resulted in an employee being crushed to death in a lift shaft.

A nightclub, one of its directors and a manager are being prosecuted for breaking health and safety regulations following the death of a barman who was crushed in a goods lift at work.

FIVE years after an EU sugar industry reform closed the Irish Sugar factories at Mallow and Carlow, Brussels is ready to shake-up the industry again.

The organisers of the EPS Bison/Red Mills 2002 Killarney Historic Stages Rally, the Killarney & District Motor Club, have attracted entries from the leading exponents of Historic and Classic rallying from Ireland and further afield for the event which will take place on Sunday, December 1.