Health Minister Simon Harris has attempted to avoid a repeat of the national maternity hospital fiasco by insisting a new national children’s hospital will be “secular” and completely devoid of any religious control.

Printing company D.C Kavanagh has gone into receivership.

SPECIALIST pork rib processor Ribworld has been purchased out of receivership by M&M Walshe — part of the Callan Bacon Group — in a deal that secures the 65 jobs at the processing plant in Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

ANOTHER of Cork’s electronics manufacturers is to close, bringing to three the number of electronics firms that have gone out of business in the city in little more than a year.

MORE THAN 100 workers at Dublin-based CD manufacturer Saturn Fulfilment Services Ltd were told yesterday their employer could no longer meet its debts, the High Court has heard.