Profits at the main Irish-based entertainment firm owned by singer-songwriter phenomenon Hozier rose more than three-fold to €1.77m last year.

An accounts assistant who was dismissed from her job days after informing a company she was pregnant, has been awarded €52,000 after the Equality Tribunal found that her dismissal amounted to discrimination on the grounds of gender.

A HEARTBROKEN father wept yesterday as he told mourners at his daughter’s funeral that he will never get the chance to give her away on her wedding day.