He's tailored for movie stars, sports stars and presidents - now he's measuring up a new Cork store for fit-out.

Senior Sinn Féin TDs have defended an internal review's decision not to personally criticise the party's leadership for its disastrous local and European elections campaign, saying the party only needs to work on how it highlights its policies.

When The Golf Course at Adare Manor opened last year it quickly acquired the mantle of ‘Ireland’s Augusta’. Indeed, many went further and described it as ‘Europe’s Augusta’.

Dublin City Council is to introduce a licensing system for retailers wanting to use sandwich boards on public footpaths to promote their business in a bid to control the growing number of advertising signs on city streets.

Talks are underway in the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s children denying liability for some €415m under guarantees of loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies, the High Court has heard.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his friend has heard he used a chainsaw to cut up his body parts after he shot him in the back of the head.

A murder trial has heard a couple told gardaí ‘I think we found a body’ after they discovered a suitcase in the canal in Co Kildare.

A widow became emotional yesterday as she explained how she would become “a prisoner” in her own home if plans for a €180m Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway were given the green light.

The proposed €180m Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway will have a devastating impact on some properties, especially in the Rochestown area, according to concerned residents.

A Cork man drove aggressively through a red light killing a French man in Cork city, then drove off and fled the country, and today he was jailed for eight years and banned from driving for 40 years.

The HSE has apologised in court to a couple for the shortcomings in care which resulted in the death of their baby son at Cavan General Hosptial over eight years ago.

A senior garda officer has denied ever saying that garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe watched young girls at a school.

DURING his music lesson, a string broke on young Conor Russell’s violin. A minor setback, and a common experience of every student. What happened next set a life-long course for Russell who is now one of Ireland’s most established violinmakers, or luthiers, as they are known in the trade.

People who take part in Special Olympics activities find it improves their social skills and emotional well-being.

The latest inquiry into allegations of planning corruption in Donegal has run aground amid fresh uncertainty over how it should proceed.

eBay is to close its operations in Dundalk in the second quarter of next year.

A young man, understood to be an Irish backpacker, was rescued by Australian emergency services after going for a nap on a roof and becoming stranded.

The commander-in-chief of Myanmar’s armed forces yesterday stressed the need for the military to remain a political force.

I must be hanging around in the wrong circles.

Sony Mobile has announced a partnership with Twitch, which will let you broadcast your gaming action from your Xperia device.

Regular flooding in parts of a south Kerry town is causing residents acute anxiety and lack of sleep, at times, it has been claimed.

Cork has three garda chief superintendents but, under new guidelines issued by the departments of justice and environment, only two will in future be allowed to sit on the county’s Joint Policing Committee (JPC).

It was the summer of 2005, when Cratloe’s footballers first announced themselves on the local scene.

EUROPEAN Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley last night came out strongly in favour of the current status of the Irish Open Championship even though it is still without a title sponsor and its prize fund at Fota Island this week is €2 million, well below what the European Tour and quite a number of leading players would like it to be.

Laws that target sex buyers and pimps can curb human trafficking and prostitution, writes Denise Charlton.

Senior Counsel Sean Guerin, whose report into alleged misconduct by gardaí was released this lunchtime, said he did not receive documentation from GSOC to aid his review, and was not told why until it was too late in the process.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has been asked to clarify if phone calls to gardaí relating to the unsolved murder of Fr Niall Molloy in 1985 were recorded.

A Dubliner who continued to claim his father's pension years after elderly man died has avoided a jail sentence today.

Extending the powers of a new UK crime fighting agency to Northern Ireland would revive decades-old concerns about police unaccountability and corruption, nationalists claimed.

Point to point medical facilities have been identified as requiring immediate improvements according to Michael Hickey, Senior Steward, Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Committee.

David Cameron stepped up clashes with Labour in the UK today by insisting the case of child killer Mick Philpott did raise “wider questions” about the welfare system in the country.

Consumer spending power is set to stabilise this year with an increase in 2014, a leading business body has forecast.

At least two motorists who had penalty point tickets cancelled by gardaí were directly involved in fatal crashes, according to claims by a Garda whistleblower.

The Irish grain and feed industry has been credited with a leading role in opening the way for high-protein feed ingredient imports from North and South America.

The High Court has today imposed a nine-week jail sentence on bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn for contempt of court.

Bankrupt billionaire Sean Quinn stood tall as a leading light of the Celtic Tiger until his dealings with the former Anglo Irish Bank, his lawyer has claimed.

Around 5,000 people took to the streets of Ballyconnell in Co. Cavan last night, to show their support for the bankrupt businessman, Sean Quinn and his family.

Peter Darragh Quinn, the nephew of businessman Sean Quinn, is still wanted by Gardaí.

The whereabouts of the nephew of businessman Sean Quinn are still unknown this morning, after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Zach Johnson won a play-off for the John Deere Classic on the US PGA Tour on Sunday when he drilled a six-iron from a fairway bunker to within 12 inches of the cup.

The High Court has found bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn, his son and nephew to be guilty of contempt of court orders restraining him and his family from moving international assets.