Dealmakers behind the €14 million purchase of the bulk of the City Quarter investment in Cork city centre from Nama have emerged as the just-re-branded MC2 Accountants, on behalf of private investors.

A larger-than-life personality and true green Irish sporting hero was the last occupant of 5 Menloe Park; now, quite the scrum of viewing interest can be expected on this five-bed Blackrock home’s arrival on the open market.

The death has occurred in Cork of Bertie O’Hanlon, the last surviving member of the Irish team that won the Grand Slam and Triple Crown in the 1948 International Championship. 

Former teammates of Jim McCarthy, the Grand Slam-winning Irish rugby international, have paid tribute to their colleague’s dedication to the game, after his death this week at the age of 90.

Rugby is mourning another of its finest sons as Ireland, Munster and Lions star Jim McCarthy died yesterday, aged 90.

Munster coach Anthony Foley dismissed reports linking Paul O’Connell with Toulon as “nonsense” and claimed the story was a malicious attempt to ‘cause trouble’.

The last time Ireland won back-to-back titles, they sailed home from Liverpool to Dun Laoghaire carrying nothing much more than the clothes they wore. And they travelled third class, with the selectors in first.

Poundland is set to buy rival 99p Stores in a £55 million cash and shares deal 14 years after the family-run chain was founded.

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British fixed-price discount retailer, Poundland — which trades here as Dealz — issues its third-quarter trading update on Wednesday.

The great Jack Kyle passed yesterday, aged 88, but what a full life he lived and he knew it.

There’s shades of banishing the remaining ghosts of the much-reviled Anglo Irish Bank at its building foot-prints in both Dublin and Cork cities: the Central Bank has started to convert Anglo’s vaunting vanity HQ project to new State service, while Cork’s former Anglo Irish Bank building is getting a re-brand and letting pitch after a multi-million euro purchase.

Discount retailer Dealz has announced the opening of 10 additional stores and the creation of 300 new jobs here.

Over 50 years have elapsed since Jack Kyle hung up his boots yet half a century later he remains one of Irish rugby’s most iconic figures.

Poundland, Europe’s biggest single price discount retailer, and parent company of Dealz, has reported a surge in the number of well-heeled shoppers visiting its stores as it notched up a record Christmas performance.

“Tipping is not a town in China — please be generous for good service”

Retention of farm supports will be a key topic in this weekend’s Macra na Feirme annual conference, which takes place in the Tower Hotel, Waterford.

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SIX months ago, John Healy, the maitre D in the RTÉ series, The Restaurant, had two major heart attacks. He was on the list for a transplant but was weakening by the day. On Mar 20, he got the call.

Agri-food leaders will gain insights into sustainable food growth from international guests at next week’s Agricultural Science Association conference.

Forget the tiara, the cash prize, the jet-setting lifestyle, and the year-long high profile.

After six hours of live TV, 32 Roses, and a bizarre mixture of missing cows, rock stars and air hostesses, Cork-born emigrant and Luxembourg Rose Nicola McEvoy has been named 2012 Rose of Tralee.

Discount retailer Dealz has announced plans to open another 10 stores by the end of March next year, creating 300 jobs.

THE Irish-backed agricultural-focused investment vehicle Fondomonte has been sold to a Saudi Arabian firm for about $83 million (€65.3m).

Discount retailer Poundland said today it is serving an additional half a million customers a week as it becomes one of the few retail chains to benefit from the consumer spending squeeze.

Europe's biggest single price discount retailer - Poundland - has opened its first two stores in Ireland.

DINGLE’S food family is a mix of suave restaurateurs, woolly-jumpered young mothers selling pies and chutneys at the market, weathered fishermen hauling from the sea and traditional butchers who swear by west Kerry lamb.

BRITISH discount retailer Poundland has plans to open up to 50 shops in Ireland over the coming years.

UK discount retailer Poundland is to expand into Ireland creating at least 180 new jobs, it was announced today.

THE vast majority of hearts donated for transplants last year were sent abroad to more suitable patients at a time when 20 Irish people where on waiting lists, two of whom died.

A CORONER is to ask Bus Éireann to review its procedures after an inquest heard how a man lay dead on a bus for almost two hours after he choked on raw meat.

IRISH speakers created much impact at the prestigious recent Oxford Farming Conference.

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MICK O’Driscoll was last night named Munster Player of the Year at the annual provincial awards dinner in Thomond Park, sponsored by the Irish Examiner.

WITH 30 cystic fibrosis sufferers on a waiting list for double lung transplant, the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland (CFAI) had called for a state-sponsored programme to raise organ donation awareness.

Finance consortium Quintas said tonight that negotiations with Cork City FC owner Tom Coughlan on the takeover of the club had stalled.

THE takeover of Cork City could go down to the wire, with complications arising out of recent transfer deals apparently posing last-minute problems for the consortium which has made an offer to buy the club.

MAGICAL days for Limerick’s Blackrock GAA club ahead of tomorrow night’s All-Ireland Club JHC final against St Colmcille’s of Tyrone.

DAN MURRAY yesterday claimed he is going through the lowest period of his life as wages owed to him, his fellow players and staff remain unpaid.

TOM COUGHLAN says that the “primary reason” for his stated intention to step down as Chairman of Cork City is to help ensure a viable future for the club.

Cork City chairman Tom Coughlan last night confirmed that he is in talks with a local consortium with a view to relinquishing control of the club.

RUGBY legend Jack Kyle believes there is more to come from Brian O’Driscoll’s Ireland and hasn’t ruled out the possibility of the side capturing a rare back-to-back Six Nations Grand Slam title.