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The prospects are good for a start-up firm that has the technology to provide the media with instant access to brand images.

Investors can take a punt in high-risk, high-reward start-up companies through ‘crowd-funding’, a well-attended conference heard in Croke Park.

One of the Birmingham Six has signed a petition demanding that the investigation into the pub bombings be reopened, and evidence subjected to new forensic tests.

An influential priest accused the Irish ambassador to the US of trying to thwart attempts to raise the case of the Birmingham Six.

As the countdown towards a launch of Atlantis on the first space shuttle flight of the year was set to begin, the threat of a strike by several hundred workers at the US Kennedy Space Centre loomed.

RICHARD McILKENNY, one of the Birmingham Six wrongly imprisoned for bombings in the Midlands city, which killed 21 people, died in hospital yesterday.

Richard McIlkenny, one of the Birmingham Six wrongly imprisoned for the bombings which killed 21 people, died in hospital today.

Formula One is preparing for its last day of tobacco sponsorship in Europe as a continent-wide ban looms.

UP to 200 of the 700 administrative workers employed by Diageo at their Guinness and United Distillers operations in Ireland may be made redundant in the coming days.