The firm behind bookseller Hughes & Hughes incurred losses totalling €1.35m in the two years prior to the Hughes & Hughes brand disappearing last year.

THE Government should move future budgets to February to promote consumer confidence prior to Christmas, the most valuable retail window of the year, says one prominent business owner.

The Curragh is to get a new world-class grandstand as part of a planned €100m makeover of the Co Kildare racecourse.