The Fitzgerald family, which controls some of the best-known pubs in the country, has booked a dividend windfall of €66.45m.

New York came to sunny West Cork as Clonakilty got its bite of the Big Apple’s Hurricane Sandy mop-up and 2,500 athletes worked up a pre-Christmas appetite at the town’s third Waterfront Marathon series of races.

LIMERICK city centre retailers have come together to fight the recession with a discount parking initiative launched yesterday.

CAROL HICKEY’S golden goal earned Crescent College Comprehensive a historic victory in the Munster Schoolgirls Senior Hockey Cup final at Garryduff yesterday.