High street clothing stores Brown Thomas, Arnotts, and Zara are the latest retailers to be hit by the spread of Covid-19.

As Ireland’s most successful sportsperson celebrates a landmark birthday tomorrow. Darren Norris counts down Aidan O’Brien’s 50 greatest moments.

For the most part, it is a game that only the very few can play.

Anthony Van Dyck provided Aidan O'Brien with a record-equalling seventh victory in the Investec Derby at Epsom.

Shares in the UK pub and restaurant group co-owned by Irish financiers JP McManus and John Magnier surged by almost 11% as it shrugged off Brexit-related pressures with a 9% jump in first half profits.

Aidan O’Brien believes Sir Dragonet is more likely to head for the Investec Derby than the French equivalent.

Irish-backed UK pub group Mitchells and Butlers has reported a drop in annual profit and has warned Brexit could impact on staff costs and its ability to increase employee numbers.

At the curragh last weekend Aidan O’Brien added some real live candidates to his already considerable Royal Ascot portfolio later this month, none more so than the Australian horse, Merchant Navy.

The New York sale of a 1917 nude painting by Amadeo Modigliani is believed to have earned horse stud owner John Magnier close to €120m.

Four of Ireland’s most distinguished professional golfers lined up at Adare Manor, Co Limerick, yesterday in tribute to the contribution five JP McManus pro-am events have made to charitable interests throughout the mid-west.

Kevin Markham chats with Noel Cronin, one of Irish golf’s great gentlemen.

The West’s Awake was a poignant winner of the two-and-a-half-mile novice chase at Punchestown yesterday.

Shares in the British pub group in which Irish financiers John Magnier and JP McManus hold a 23% stake fell by as much as 12% on the back of falling profits and a decision not to award shareholders an interim dividend next year, writes Geoff Percival.

An Irish-owned racehorse has sold for a record price at auction in the UK.

The rich are getting richer, according to the Sunday Independent's Irish rich list.

The world-renowned Coolmore Stud has been ordered by an Employment Appeals Tribunal to pay €18,000 to a former stable hand who was dismissed after he took €220.

Classic-winning trainer David Wachman is to retire at the end of the season.

The going in Thurles is very good and conditions are favourable for a special fundraiser in aid of a local school’s autism unit.

Divide and Conquer is a well recognised method of negotiation, during which one vested party attempts to influence key sympathetic members of the opposition in order to gain control of a bargaining position or of the collective proceedings.

A leading figure in Irish horseracing, Annemarie O’Brien, has backed a report on converting Ireland’s largest electricity station from coal to biomass.

A new company has been established to own and run Curragh racecourse and training grounds, and oversee the €65m redevelopment of the track.

No sooner had the Leger at Doncaster on Saturday finished than a pal of mine rang to ask what I thought would happen at the subsequent stewards’ inquiry.

So, the rumours that were rife for weeks, regarding Aidan O’Brien’s future at Ballydoyle, finally found their way into the media over the last seven days or so.

Could the unthinkable actually happen?

Aidan O’Brien hailed Gleneagles as the “best miler we’ve had” after he completed a Classic double in the Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday.

The racehorse training and bloodstock firm operated by horse trainer Aidan O’Brien last year enjoyed a bumper year recording profits of €366,685.

Another record was broken at Book One of the Tattersalls October Sales in Newmarket as the number of seven-figure purchases continued to rise.