Newly merged betting services giant Paddy Power-Betfair is expected to increase revenues by 16% this year, with growth of 10% and 8% anticipated in each of the following two years.

Wireless Group — the newly named radio business recently spun out from UTV Media — is anticipating growth in Irish radio advertising spend this year and a strong ries in profitability.

Paddy Power and Betfair hope to complete their planned merger during the first quarter of 2016, with shareholders likely to vote on the matter in December.

The growing sense of reality surrounding a merger between Paddy Power and Betfair will mean different things to different people.

Fledgling station UTV Ireland has increased its estimates for losses for a third time in less than a year, and now predicts it will post losses of £11.5m (€16.2m) in 2015 — its maiden year of operation.

A “pity-seeking” couple fulfilled a suicide pact by taking a lethal poison at a Swiss euthanasia clinic after suffering decades of ill-health, an inquest was told yesterday.