One of Ireland’s best-known restaurants, Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud, is enjoying its best ever year.

The Naughton Foundation, which makes donations to education in engineering, science and technology has received €20.4m from one of the firms in Martin Naughton’s Glen Dimplex group.

Business at Ireland’s most celebrated eatery— Dublin’s Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud — is on the up and up with its eponymous co-owner yesterday confirming it has just enjoyed its best ever year since it opened 35 years ago.

The wealth of Denis O’Brien has fallen by $1.1bn (€1bn), but the telecoms businessman still remains one of the country’s richest people, according to the annual Forbes list of the world’s mega rich.

A number of polling stations for today’s general election are not wheelchair accessible, voters with mobility issues have been warned.

Pre-tax profits at Glen Electric, the Northern Ireland-based division of electric appliance giant, Glen Dimplex last year decreased by 39% to £41.75m (€56.71m).

Disability campaigners who organised a three-day sit-down outside Government Buildings have described as disappointing a meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

It is 40 years this weekend since Galway returned to hurling’s high altar, their 1975 All-Ireland final appearance bringing to an end the county’s 17-year wait for a September sojourn to Jones Road.

Ireland’s most celebrated restaurant had its busiest year in 2014 since opening 34 years ago leading to a profit jump of €88,000.

Pre-tax profits at the hotel group that co-owns the luxury five-star Merrion Hotel, in Dublin, increased 9% last year to £2.19m (€3m).

Sean O’Gorman on the men that defied the odds and the critics to win the All-Ireland senior hurling final in 1990.

A new direct payment scheme for people with disabilities could save the State upwards of €100m, according to campaigners looking to empower those with disabilities and give them more independence and control over their lives.

New HSE guidelines on providing accessible services to patients with disabilities that took more than two years to prepare were launched in Dublin’s Mater Hospital yesterday.

Pre-tax profits at Glen Electric, the Northern Ireland-based division of electric appliance giant Glen Dimplex, last year increased by 13.5% to £68.5m (€87.2m).

The rich just got richer, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List, which indicates that the total wealth of the country’s richest 250 people increased by just under €3bn last year.

Pre-tax profits at Glen Electric, the Northern Ireland-based division of electric appliance giant Glen Dimplex, decreased by 4% to £60.3m (€72.4m) last year.

Eighteen years after they first met in the Munster championship, Clare’s Ollie Baker and Fergal Ryan of Cork came face to face again this week to recount the good, and not so good, days of their inter-county careers.

One of the best known five-star hotels in the country, the Merrion Hotel in Dublin, last year increased pre-tax profits by 7% to €1.6m.

The hotel group that co-owns the luxury 5-star Merrion hotel in Dublin last year increased its pre-tax profits more than threefold to £2.4m (€2.923m).

Pre-tax profits at Glen Electric — the Northern Ireland-based division of electrical appliance giant Glen Dimplex — fell by 15% last year to £62.8m (€76.8m), figures show.

Cork business people have to make a choice — stay in Cork city for the summer and make the city thrive or disappear to their holiday homes in West Cork.

Disability campaigners who forced the Government to roll back on €10m in cuts to services are warning of further protests if demands to protect funding are not met.

A 24-hour picket by wheelchair-bound protesters has forced health chiefs to put in writing commitments to save their services.

Disability campaigners on the street outside Government Buildings have been issued with a letter from the HSE confirming the reversal of cuts to personal care assistants.

They were scared, really scared, but people with disabilities showed their fighting spirit outside Government Buildings yesterday.

Tens of thousands of sailors and Fighting Irish will hit Dublin in the most peaceful way this weekend as the capital prepares to go American Football crazy.

THE five-star hotel the President of the United States Barack Obama checked into but never stayed at, returned to pre-tax profit last year, new figures show.

PRE-TAX profits at Glen Electric, the Northern Ireland-based division of electrical appliance giant Glen Dimplex, increased last year by 13% to £66.3 million (€77.6m) in spite of a decline in revenues.

LOSSES at the Sunday Tribune increased last year when the paper lost just over €158,000 a week.

DEVELOPER Bernard McNamara will provide a sworn statement of his assets and liabilities to investors pursuing him for €62.5 million but it is “impossible” for him to outline the current value of his assets, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.

THE Sunday Tribune increased its losses in 2008 — losing almost €97,000 a week.

AUTHOR Seán Curtin is more acquainted than most with the people, streets and changing face of Limerick for a period spanning more than 100 years.

ONE of the country’s plushest hotels, the five star Merrion in Dublin remained in the red last year although losses eased.

IT is a sad day for people with disabilities in Ireland.

THE Sunday Tribune increased its losses in 2007 — losing more than €54,000 a week.

OVER the past few weeks, considerable media coverage has been provided to a small number of “high profile” business people who are calling for a no vote on the Lisbon Treaty.

LOCHLANN Quinn has been appointed chairman of the ESB.

GLEN Dimplex, the electrical goods company owned by Martin Naughton, has acquired a British firm Applied Energy Products.

HOME appliance firm Glen Dimplex is investing €2.5 million in the development of a global energy centre in Louth.

It's been 15 years since Cork and Galway met in an All-Ireland hurling final, the year of the double and the day Joe Cooney had a first half to dream about. However the second half belonged to Cork and Tomás Mulcahy.