Employees of Shannon-based engineering equipment maker Mincon are set to be awarded around €1,000 per year of service as part of a €1.2m employee recognition payment plan.

Glenswilly and Ballinderry Shamrocks booked their places in the AIB Ulster Senior Club Football Final following today's Senior club football action.

Shannon-based engineering services firm Mincon is due to float in both Dublin and London, later this month, in a €50m fundraising move aimed at aggressively growing the firm through acquisition inside the next two years.

Bord Gáis Neptune had to come from behind to deny Belfast Star 75-72 in a pulsating Men’s Premier League game yesterday.

A former garda, who claimed he had to take early retirement after he was “viciously” assaulted, was yesterday awarded €45,000 compensation in the High Court.

Researchers need to be given greater freedom to develop new and creative solutions and avoid the danger of group think, a leading academic has said.

ACTION aplenty in Ballingeary on Saturday, some superb football too, with Macroom finishing strongly to end Bantry Blues’ ambitions for another season.

PRE-TAX losses at Dublin-based investment group, Prime Active Capital (PAC) more than halved last year, to €1.4m; down from a loss of €3.9m in 2009.

THE collapse of the Irish property market has resulted in fee and commission income at Ireland’s largest auctioneers, Sherry FitzGerald Holdings, plummeting by €25 million as losses surged by 310% to €15.55m.

DUBLIN-based investment group Prime Active Capital (PAC) has reported an operating loss of €1.84 million for the first six months of this year, a decent improvement from the €2.65m loss it made for the same period last year.

The Government today pledged more than €11m for 68 research projects across the country.

INVESTMENT group, Prime Active Capital (PAC), which grew out of last year’s overhaul of Dublin-based printing firm Oakhill, has sold part of that original business for nearly €14 million.

AFTER the shock exit of holders PBC, Christian Brothers College find themselves as hot favourites to add another Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup title to an impressive haul of trophies won over the decades.

A Cork man who stabbed his brother to death during a row at their family home has told Mr Justice Barry White he will have to live with his actions for the rest of his life.

A Cork man pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his brother after stabbing him six times in the chest and leg during a row at their family home.

The father of a Cork man accused of stabbing his brother said the accused had a mad glare in his eye at the time of the killing and it seemed like he was on "something heavy".

A MAN will stand trial next month accused of murdering his brother at the family home in Cork last year, an inquest was told yesterday.

EIRCOM directors stand to make €7.8 million from the sale to Babcock & Brown.

FOLLOWERS of Munster Colleges games are spoiled for choice this afternoon with three Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-finals and a Harty Cup replay down for decision.

Nemo Rangers 0-12 Macroom 0-6

EIRCOM chief executive Philip Nolan was paid €5.6 million in the past year, the company’s annual report reveals.

THE printing firm and book publisher Adare posted a net loss of just over €2 million last year, according to accounts just filed at the Companies Registration Office.

THE two private equity firms, who are the largest shareholders in Eircom, will net close to €470 million when the telecoms company floats on the stock market later this month.

EIRCOM is being asked by some of its bondholders for more time to consider a plan by the company to sell shares.