Just over 35 years since Galway’s notorious Magdalene laundry closed its doors, a new refuge for women and children is nearing completion in convent grounds next door.

Tipperary's Shane Breen has today made history at the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS, after he claimed victory in the €350,000 Longines Grand Prix of Ireland.

Contract catering company Fitzers Catering last year recorded a pre-tax loss of €633,537, newly filed accounts show.

Feeding Nidge and the other screen gangsters of RTÉ’s Love/Hate proved to be a lucrative business for Fitzers Catering in 2013.

Ger O’Neill has a couple of reasons for believing he might win the championship for five-year-old horses at Millstreet International Horse Show.