Divers bravely challenged the elements day after day to recover the body of Barry Davis Ryan.

Junior Rugby Focus

Junior Rugby Focus: Newcastle West are the new leaders in Division 1 of the Munster Junior League after their bonus point 30-10 home win over Old Christians.

It is unclear yet whether network equipment maker Cisco Systems’ decision to sack 4,000 people, or 5% of its global workforce, will affect its Irish operations.

Argo *****

Fiction couldn’t be any stranger than the truth in Argo, based on real-life events following the 1979 storming of the US Embassy in Tehran.

John Goodman says 'Argo' was made "so much easier" thanks to Ben Affleck's decisive directing.

A TOP US economist has told firms that they are “stupid” if they are not in Ireland.

THE cost of building the more than €70 million National Aquatic Centre was underestimated by €10m because the state agency responsible wrongly believed the Revenue Commissioners would return VAT payments.

TAXPAYERS have been landed with a multimillion euro legal bill after a state agency ignored the advice of the Attorney General and subsequently lost its Supreme Court case.

Wall Street closed mixed today, recuperating from a sharp plunge as investors snapped up bargain stocks on rumours that a bond insurer rescue plan is progressing and upbeat comments from Cisco Systems and Amazon.

Apple’s much-hyped iPhone was unveiled this week after 30 months and millions of dollars in top-secret development.

BASEBALL is a game tied closely to heritage and tradition, the markers of a glorious past. But in California, the Oakland Athletics and Cisco Systems are working on the stadium of the future. Michael Moynihan reports.

John Chambers

Cisco Systems has announced that net income for the company has risen 35% but revenue has fallen by 42%.

Telecom network equipment company Cisco Systems reported increased profits for its second quarter as the company kept a tight check on its spending.

Cisco Systems has posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profits.

Cisco Systems has reported higher-than-expected profits and sales for its fiscal second quarter, suggesting the networking giant may be rebounding from the economic downturn.

Analysts expect Cisco's quarterly results to offer hope of stability after a traumatic year.

Cisco Systems has posted a first-quarter net loss of $268m.

The Dow Jones industrials have scored their second straight triple-digit gain, rising 182.75 to close at 9,687.53.