Spouses and partners of customers in one of Ireland’s leading stores will be able to quietly anaesthetise themselves in comfort in anticipation of the shopping bill, a judge was told today.

A GROUP of private pension investors, led by Quintas Wealth Management, has acquired a Bank of Ireland building as an investment, on a return of almost 9% .

THE house market might have been on the floor in 2010 — but, if it was, the commercial end of the business was in the basement by comparison and, unlike the stamp duty break given to the residential market in Budget 2011, it still has a high tax rate on transactions.