The financial problems for a Dublin city centre club and restaurant stemmed from its directors acquiring a company that had extensive debts, of which they were unaware, a judge stated yesterday.

Independent News & Media’s group chief financial officer Donal Buggy is to leave the group on Oct 5, to pursue other interests.

DAIRY spread manufacturers have an opportunity to participate with food research specialists in exploiting new technology which is expected to produce nutritionally superior spreads and oils with an extended shelf-life.

HE HAD a tight grip on all aspects of his nation’s life but Romanian diplomats were anxious that their president Nicolae Ceausescu would not be outdone by rival communist leader Marshall Tito during a 90-minute stopover in Shannon during April, 1978.

A FLOATING pub and restaurant on Dublin’s River Liffey has been granted a seven-day licence in the Circuit Civil Court.

ELDERLY people must be given every opportunity to remain in their own homes, it was argued yesterday after a survey revealed only a tiny number would ever want to move to residential or nursing homes.

THOUSANDS of children in foster care cannot be legally adopted and are denied a chance of enjoying a “second family” because they have no specific rights of their own, it emerged yesterday.

RETIRED Fianna Fáil Minister Michael O’Kennedy yesterday became the first former Government minister to receive an honour from the English monarchy, for his work forging links between Irish and British parliaments.

Many of the three-seater constituencies are expected to provide fierce battles in the upcoming election and many pundits will be closely watching developments in Tipperary north.