TWO prime Waterford City investments worth €13.5m — one next to where Wetherspoons have acquired a 4,000 sq ft city footprint for a new bar — are new to market for a local family of investor/owners.

THE chief executive of the Irish Greyhound Board has assured taxpayers his organisation got value for money from building a stadium and headquarters at Greenpark in Limerick.

THE harbour views from 1, Woodside are pretty special — but effectively they were a trade-down/retirement compromise for the house’s current owner, Mrs Mary Porteous.

With Irish exports to Britain poised to grow in the wake of Queen Elizabeth’s visit, from businessman Gerry Robinson to TV and radio presenter Terry Wogan, the Irish are making their presence felt there, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

JOHN SISK & SON, the construction arm of the Sisk Group, has begun work on high profile contracts worth in excess of €300 million in Britain in the past nine months.

THE head of the Department of Enterprise has denied burying a critical report into an alleged €167 million Fás “slush” fund for employers.

IRISH companies have so far clinched more than €200 million worth of contracts for the 2012 Olympic Games.

CONSTRUCTION giant John Sisk & Son paid out a dividend of more than €90 million last year as pre-tax profits fell by €2.5m.

HIBERNIAN and John Sisk and Son have won the Irish leg of the national Good Practice Awards held in association with the Health and Safety Authority yesterday.

Walling and ventilation specialists Williaam Cox has been awarded the contract for the design, manufacture and installation of the Lansdowne Road stadium roof, façade and internal screens.

THE Sisk family, owners of the country’s top construction company, are about to pass the baton on to the next generation.

AIB will bank a profit of €160 million on the sale of its headquarters in south Dublin that it had valued at just €1.2m.

JUST where is Tom Costello, managing director, John Sisk & Son, coming from when he takes a swipe at the Building and Allied Trades Union (Irish Examiner, Oct 4).