Carphone Warehouse Ireland has staged a remarkable turnaround in the past 12 months, turning a near €10m loss in 2013 into a €2.1m profit last year.

Munster Schools Senior Cup: Castletroy 15 PBC 22

Munster Senior Cup: Rockwell 16 PBC Cork 14

Carphone Warehouse has today announced an €6m investment in a new data centre to power its own mobile operator, which will launch in July 2015.

Carphone Warehouse is targeting a 6% share of Ireland’s mobile phone operator market by 2020.

Carphone Warehouse is teaming up with Three, following Three's buyout of O2 Ireland, and its new network will initially employ 50 new staff.

ON one of the few calm days we’ve had recently, I was out contemplating my sodden vegetable garden and when I’d be able to prepare the beds for planting. I heard an unmistakable sound. The call of wild geese, which is like a distant pack of hounds in the sky.

A two-minute road penalty cost Waterford’s Craig Breen (Peugeot 207 S2000) the overnight lead in the Rallye International du Valais in Switzerland, the final round of the European Rally Championship.

A new joint venture between two companies- Carphone Warehouse and Harvey Norman -will see up to 80 new jobs being created.

St Munchin’s College celebrated a thoroughly deserved Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final victory over Presentation Brothers College Cork with gusto at Temple Hill yesterday to clinch a place in the March 19 decider against Rockwell College.

Carphone Warehouse Ireland general manager Peter Scott talks to Conor Keane about his busy working day

AS dramatic denouements go, it was right up there. Needing a converted try to win, PBC Cork battered the Rockwell line through seven minutes of injury time and eventually worked Will Foley over the line with a kickable conversion seemingly to come.

DIFFERENT motivations but the same end goal sums up today’s Avonmore Milk Munster Senior Schools Cup clash between PBC Cork and Rockwell College at Musgrave Park (3pm).

SCHOOLS rugby stereotypes? Alongside a colourful terrace culture and visible agony and ecstasy at the final whistle, you’ll find cagey, no-risk, win-at-all-costs rugby.

PRESENTATION Brothers College, Cork made a positive start to the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup campaign with a resounding triumph against Glenstal Abbey at the Cork Institute of Technology grounds yesterday.

PETER SCOTT, a man associated with several PBC triumphs, was elated by his team’s latest title success in the first Munster Schools Senior Cup final to be played at the redeveloped Thomond Park stadium.

PRESENTATION BROTHERS COLLEGE, Cork, were crowned Avonmore Munster Schools’ Senior Cup champions for the 28th time at Thomond Park yesterday when they turned in a highly impressive performance in defeating Rockwell.

PBC CORK coach Peter Scott admitted he has plenty of food for thought ahead of his side’s Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final clash with St Munchin’s, after seeing his side rigorously tested by a game Bandon Grammar outfit at Temple Hill yesterday.

FAVOURITES Presentation Brothers College overcame the dogged resistance of Ard Scoil Rís to confidently move into the quarter finals of the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup at Rosbrien yesterday.

DAVE O’MAHONY has stepped down as Dolphin head coach, describing his time in charge of the AIB League Division One club as “a magnificent journey”.

PRESENTATION College cruised to their 27th Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Junior Cup title with this comprehensive victory at Thomond Park yesterday.

PRESENTATION Brothers College go in search of their 27th Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Junior Cup at Thomond Park today (3pm) when they take on St Munchin’s College in the 76th final.

A pupil at the centre of a teachers’ strike which has forced the closure of a school is to face a criminal prosecution, it was disclosed today.

Fresh proposals to end a teaching strike were not expected until Wednesday, teachers’ representatives claimed today.

REVENGE should be high on the agenda for Presentation Brothers College, Cork who take on Castletroy College in the Avonmore Munster Schools Junior Cup decider at Musgrave Park today (3.00).

THERE was a huge sigh of relief at Dooradoyle yesterday as holders Presentation Brothers College, Cork, edged into the Avonmore Munster Schools Junior Cup final with a one point win over Crescent Comprehensive.

FILM fans are hoping to curry favour with India’s movie bosses in a bid to bring the Bollywood Oscars to Ireland.

CASTLETROY College compete in their first Munster Schools Junior Cup final, sponsored by Avonmore Milk, against traditional heavyweights Presentation Brothers College at Dooradoyle today (kick off 3:45pm).

SUNDAY’S Leinster Schools Junior Cup final between St Michael’s College and Blackrock College at Donnybrook has been moved forward to 1pm.

Munster 16 Australia 24

FOR the first time, Schools and Youths have combined to form a Munster U19 panel from which a Munster Selection will be chosen to play Australia on Wednesday in Clifford Park, Greenfields, Limerick at 2pm.

AS the world waits for a verdict in Michael Jackson’s child sex abuse trial the atmosphere outside the courthouse swings between the calm and the surreal.

As the world waits for a verdict in Michael Jackson’s child sex abuse trial the atmosphere outside the courthouse swings between the calm and the surreal.

Details of the 2004 Killarney Historic Stages Rally were revealed at a launch last night at the Dromhall Hotel in Co Kerry.

A community campaign was highly successful in cutting down on costly vandalism on Dublin Bus routes, a transport conference heard today.