An Post has warned that its ability to provide a national postal service is under threat because of the company’s worsening financial situation.

Spice manufacturer McCormick has abandoned takeover talks with Premier Foods, saying the UK maker of ‘Mr Kipling’ cakes and ‘Bisto’ gravy demanded too high a price. Premier Foods shares plunged as much as 31%.

Tim taught in India with the VSO after college, then moved to London to study accountancy. Back in Dublin, he joined the National Irish Investment Bank, where he remained until 1990.

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy stormed his way to a second Wells Fargo Championship success, a second victory in three weeks, a third triumph this season and the 18th win of his professional career.

Irish Water is finalising measures to go after tenants who do not pay water charges amid growing confusion among landlords and renters about the new tariff.

AT dawn on June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops began landing in Normandy, the largest seaborne invasion in history, and a turning point in the Second World War.

Bruce Springsteen turned up at the RDS yesterday, but the Boss didn’t sing a word as the focus of the crowds remained on horses at the opening of the five-day Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show.

Cannabis could be used to reduce tumour growth in cancer patients, scientists have said.

Cannabis could be used to reduce tumour growth in cancer patients, scientists have said.

With their fifth win of the Dunlop National Rally Championship, Donegal cousins Declan and Brian Boyle (Subaru WRC) clinched the series with an emphatic victory in the Clonmel-based Sepam Tipperary Stone-throwers Rally.

Rory McIlroy believes returning to his Holywood roots and playing a social round of golf in the company of his best mates could lead to him finally breaking loose from a disappointing first half of the season.

A millionaire businessman is facing jail after being convicted of selling fake bomb detectors.

Hundreds of cheering people held parties to “celebrate” the death of Baroness Thatcher.

The computer games market in Ireland was worth €248m last year according to research by Jamie McCormick, an industry specialist who complied the figures in a report, The Games Industry in Ireland 2012.

Two men have avoided jail after admitting copying thousands of files from Sony Music, including previously unreleased tracks by Michael Jackson.

The Irish gaming industry has mushroomed over the past few years, with four times as many firms involved in developing computer games than three years ago.

The heat is on and the clothes are off in the fourth chapter of the high-energy dance franchise, which propelled Channing Tatum’s star into the ascendancy in 2006.

A tired Mo Farah feels there is a target on his back following his Olympic 10,000m triumph, but vowed to give everything in his bid for an historic long-distance double in London.

A goalkeeper in Britain jailed for killing two young boys in a car crash while drink-driving has been offered the chance to restart his career after he is released from prison.

A provisional liquidator was yesterday appointed by the High Court to logistics company Flancare Clonmel Distribution Ltd, which employs more than 200 people.

England’s James McCormick was the surprise leader after the opening stroke play round of the Radisson Blu-sponsored West of Ireland Amateur Open Championship at a damp and gloomy Rosses Point yesterday.

Forget squatter’s rights — it was squatter’s flight yesterday after it emerged that a man who won his claim to a property he had broken into 30 years ago had left the country.

THE number of young adults who have developed alcoholic liver disease has almost quadrupled in just 14 years, new research has found.

JAMES STEPHENS collected the Kilkenny SHC title at a damp Nowlan Park yesterday, where 8,742 spectators saw an entertaining replay after last week’s draw disputed by two fully committed sides – sometimes too committed, as evidenced by the second-half sendings off of Jackie Tyrrell, captain of the new champions, and Ballyhale’s Colin Fennelly.

Waterford 2-11 Down 1-13

A cautionary tale of misplaced rivalry, based on the real-life story of Dublin brothers Neill (Barnes) and Ivan (Sheehan) McCormick’s attempts to emulate the rise and rise of Bono and U2.

Pete Postlethwaite's involvement in the last film he made - new comedy 'Killing Bono' - was an "amazing honour" for all those who took part, its director said tonight.

ONLY OLD floodlights can make that sudden clunking sound, like an old, rickety lever being pulled down to spark the countless bulbs to life.

A Co Down man who admitted running a network of brothels in Dublin has been sentenced to two and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Co Down man who admitted running a network of brothels in Dublin has had his sentencing adjourned until Friday.

Portstewart's Paul Cutler and Portmarnock’s James Fox fired three-under-par 69s to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the East of Ireland Amateur Open Championship at fast-running Baltray.

A teenage gunman (Sean Mercer, pictured) has been found guilty of the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones, who was gunned down as he made his way home from football training in Liverpool.

Ipswich Town boss Jim Magilton said today that he had come “very close” to leaving midfielder David Norris out of the squad for Saturday’s trip to Doncaster after Norris gestured his support to a jailed friend while celebrating a goal.

An under-fire championship soccer player today changed his explanation of the meaning of a controversial goal celebration.

Ipswich have fined midfielder David Norris after his controversial goal celebration on Saturday.

The Football Association have confirmed that they have written to Ipswich midfielder David Norris to ask for his explanation of a controversial goal celebration at the weekend.

FÁS has predicted employment figures will rise by 24,000 in 2008 — before plummeting by 31,000 next year.

Paul O'Hanlon from The Curragh is the new Irish Close champion after defeating Dara Lernihan from the Castle inyesterday's final, at Belvoir Park in Belfast.