Worldpay, the UK payment-processing company that listed in London two years ago, said it has received preliminary takeover approaches from Vantiv and JPMorgan Chase.

A teenage fisherman from Valentia Island, accused of an assault, has been ordered by a court to stay “completely out” of neighbouring Kerry town Cahirciveen until the DPP gives a direction in the matter.

St Mary’s 1-15 Skellig Rangers 1-6: St Mary’s claimed their third consecutive South Kerry SFC title with a nine-point win over Skellig Rangers at Con Keating Park, Cahersiveen on Saturday.

A father of five from Co Cork who has saved two people from drowning in separate incidents over the last decade, will be among 47 people from across the country who will today be rewarded for the bravery they showed in water rescues.

IRFU President Martin O’Sullivan has vowed to devote resources and energies to improving the state of the All-Ireland League.

IRFU chief executive Philip Browne confirmed the union has agreed a deal with a new main sponsor which will kick in next summer, but poured cold water on the size and span of the deal which is reportedly with Vodafone.

Patrons in an English pub will be baying for blood tomorrow night as drinks all around are promised if either of Love/Hate’s crime lords, Nidge and Fran, get the bullet.

A 32-year-old local election candidate who was once a pop sensation has a secret canvassing weapon — hordes of children.

We look at the power brokers of Irish rugby and find out how they influence the game.

The leader of the Green Party has said people living in a family home who cannot afford to pay their mortgage should not be evicted from that house.

A man whose family is facing eviction said he hopes their decision to go public will give thousands of other families in mortgage arrears the strength to take a stand.

The Fianna Fáil leader has accused the Taoiseach of "washing his hands" of the case of a family facing eviction in Cork.

Former Test captain Keith Wood was one of the four-man panel interviewing candidates for the vacant Ireland head coach post.

Gavin Twohig returned to competitive bowling with an impressive win over David Hubbard in the Ballinacurra tournament on Saturday.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney (and his daughter Beth) were on hand to congratulate Pat and Derek Frawley, from Croagh, Rathkeale, Co Limerick, and their cow handler Stephen McLoughlin, when they won the prestigious Maverick Golden Vale Cup, presented by Kerry Agri Business at Charleville Agricultural Show last weekend.

A volunteer search and rescue unit from Co Cork has found what experts believe may be a scuttled Second World War U-boat on the bottom of Lough Foyle.

FOR St Anthony’s women’s Gaelic football team, getting 15 players on the pitch is not a problem — it’s cutting people from the panel.

I WRITE to comment on Suzanne Harrington’s article, “The joyless sects”.

YOU can take a winner at Clonakilty Agricultural Show anywhere.

THEY say you can take a white horse anywhere, but it seems Midleton horse trainer Dan Rohan can take his bay mare anywhere and win.

Electronics company Toshiba have taken over from AIG as sponsors of Ireland’s biggest hurdle, to be run at Leopardstown on January 25.

DAIRY farmers enjoyed a pre-recession bash at the World Holstein Friesian Federation Conference and Show in Killarney and Millstreet at the weekend.

SUPERMARKETS have many two-for-one offers to entice buyers. Anything from bacon to biscuits is used to get the tills ringing.

A THREE-YEAR-OLD bay gelding won the young horse championship for a Limerick exhibitor at Cork Summer Show.

AQUILA, a five-year-old mare by Quiletto out of a Mr Lord mare, bred by Paul and Jan Turfery, Caheragh, owned by Brian Mangan, Fermoy, and ridden by Rose Marie Ahern, Carhue, Bandon, dominated the hunter classes at Clonakilty Show.

GARDAÍ were hunting last night for one of two raiders who posed as workmen before attacking an elderly bachelor in his Cork home.

LIVESTOCK exhibitors are back on the roads of Munster, heading across the county lines in search of winners’ red rosettes.

THE National Roads Authority has put the brakes on a second major project in north Cork.

A LIMERICK farmer, who combines cattle breeding and milk production with managing his Glebe Properties house building business, continued a successful year for his dairy cattle at Iverk Show in Co Kilkenny last week.

A RECORD attendance of more than 20,000 flocked to Charleville’s two-day agricultural show last weekend to view some of the finest sport horses and livestock, and a huge range of attractions ranging from modified cars to pets.

THE late Joe Clarke would have been pleased that some of the finest cattle in the country were being shown and judged at Charleville Agricultural Show just as he was being laid to rest in Limerick on Saturday.

WEXFORD-bred horses won the ridden hunter championship and the reserve honours for a Co Down exhibitor at last Sunday’s Cork Summer Show.

THE rivalry between West Cork horse breeders was at its best during the Clonakilty Show, where they vied for most of the top honours in the showing classes.

A RISE in the number of cattle entries at shows so far this season continued at Clonakilty where 200 animals from the main breeds were entered for various classes.

WATERFORD took on a nautical look over the weekend as thousands of people turned out for the Hullabaloo Children’s Festival, in its fifth year.

ANTI-GAY messages from the Catholic Church are fuelling a rise in suicide rates among gay young men, a Cork-based support group said yesterday.