The Dunnes Stores retail empire last year received a £250m (€284m) dividend from its main Northern Ireland based company.

Just weeks after giving birth to her fourth child, Joanne Hynes launched her new line for Dunnes Stores. Annmarie O’Connor meets the unstoppable designer.

At Your Service star Francis Brennan talks to Deirdre Reynolds about his new product range for Dunnes Stores that has been a long time coming

Prominent Cork businessman Richard Neville has died.

Businessman Harry Crosbie has lost an appeal over Nama’s efforts to recover a €77m debt under which his personal assets, including his family home, are at risk.

A 71-year-old grandmother is one of some 2,700 students celebrating Junior Certificate results in Limerick yesterday.

THE protections offered to workers, especially those in low-paid, vulnerable sectors, is one of the ways a society can be judged.

Pre-tax profits at the UK arm of Irish-owned retail giant, Dunnes Stores last year decreased by 13% to £13.8m (€17.6m) after a slump in revenues.

Dunnes Stores head Margaret Heffernan ignored complaints by rival supermarket giant Aldi alleging her company was carrying on a misleading comparative advertising campaign in "flagrant" breach of the relevant laws, the Commercial Court has been told.

Pre-tax profits at the UK arm of Irish-owned retail giant Dunnes Stores last year increased by 29% to £15.9m (€18.5m).

A student whose body was found in a barrel on a Clare farm was the victim of a violent and sustained assault and died of severe, extensive trauma to his head, a court has heard.

A petition to wind up retail giant Dunnes Stores has been withdrawn at the Commercial Court after the company paid €21.6m owed for a shopping centre development in Kilkenny.

Dunnes Stores chief Margaret Heffernan has told Nama it will be held responsible for the “very significant losses” her company will “inevitably” experience if a petition to wind up the retail giant over non-payment of €21.6m for a Kilkenny shopping centre development is pursued.

Pre-tax profits at theUK business of Irish-owned retail giant Dunnes Stores last year more than halved to £12.3m (€15.4m), figures show.

Despite almost four years of recession, Ireland’s richest are getting even richer.

A deep recession has reshaped the retail landscape and will continue to do so over the coming years. Casualties are anticipated, and the big-name stores have as much to fear as anyone, reports Kyran FitzGerald

WHEN, as children, my pals and I roamed the bogs, river banks and lake shores of Tipperary, Mayo and Donegal, we regularly came upon curlews’ nests and I’m afraid we may have sometimes filched an egg or two for our collections.

Dunnes Stores, confident in its future, reopens the outlet where it all began 65 years ago, write Sean O’Riordan and Eoin English

IN one of the more positive responses to the recession, Dunnes Stores opened a new flagship store in Cork’s St Patrick’s Street yesterday.

A DISPUTE over the alleged failure of Dunnes Stores to complete an agreement to become anchor tenant at the Point Village development in Dublin’s docklands has been settled.

SPECULATION grew yesterday that Dunnes Stores may be taken over by British retail giant Asda.

More than €7.5m was raised by the Irish public during the RTE People in Need Telethon, it was announced today.

FRANK FAHEY will come under growing pressure later this month to resign from his junior ministry if an inquiry into a controversial compensation scheme for fishermen is critical of his role.

DUNNES STORES bosses Margaret Heffernan and Frank Dunne have agreed to fund the restoration of their derelict former home, historic Ringmahon House in Cork.

The son of Dunnes Stores executive Margaret Heffernan has been given a 1.5% stake, worth around €30m, in the retail chain.

OUSTED Dunnes Stores boss Ben Dunne said the changes in the structure of the family trust disclosed yesterday “opens up a lot of possibilities, good and bad” for the group.