The main arm of Waterford-based pharmaceutical company EirGen swung back into pre-tax profit last year, as revenues climbed 28% to €12.2m.

Andrzej Jezierski was Ireland’s best performer at day three of the European Games in Baku yesterday.

Greg Broderick hopes to raise the temperature on Sunday in Thermal, California, where there will be a cool $1m (€940,000) on offer in the AIG Grand Prix.

Pre-tax profits at the consultancy firm that carried out a report into the pay at Irish banks last year increased by 54% to €9.57m.

Met Éireann is expected to issue a red alert as gale force winds of up to 130km/h, high tides, rain, sleet, hail, and thunder hit the country this weekend.

The latest tax defaulters list from the Revenue Commissioners bears a resemblance to the witness list of the tribunals of yesteryear.

Three houses in Co Cork have been made available to industrial school survivors who were homeless in Britain.

SOMETIMES, the circus gets out of hand. Last Sunday, a Government minister decried the slow rate of progress in criminal investigations into the banking collapse and the results from tribunal reports.

Several early revelations about suspected planning corruption were ignored and recommendations quietly buried before the Mahon Tribunal began its work, Michael Clifford reports

Buyers from the UK and from Donegal to Waterford were bidding for the many five star bulls on offer at Tullamore in the Hereford Society’s Premier Bull Sale.

THE Kilkenny football board reaffirmed their commitment to fielding a team in the Allianz League at an emergency meeting on Wednesday night.

THERE are clear signs that Fianna Fáil is in trouble in the Cork East constituency and that some of its voters are defecting to Sinn Féin, leaving that party’s candidate well in the hunt for the last of the four seats on offer.

A CONTROVERSIAL government-funded charity for survivors of institutional abuse is set to open offices in Galway, Waterford, Limerick and Cork, according to a newsletter published by its new board of directors.

THE cold period has concentrated minds on the whole area of energy, especially that which heats homes, offices, factories and places that people frequent.

THERE is no “record or evidence” of how anyone except a select inner circle benefited over a 10-year period in which the State was funding an organisation for survivors of institutional abuse, it has been claimed.

JUST a few months ago a new board of directors was appointed to Right of Place, a charity for survivors of institutional abuse.

ARAGLIN survived a storming finish to edge out Kilbrin in a superb Evening Echo Cork ‘B’ JFC semi-final at Doneraile yesterday.

KILKENNY footballers know their place in the scheme of things.

George Redmond's trial for accepting a bribe from Fianna Fáil Councillor Patrick Dunne has heard his tax return for 1990 stated he received Ir£10,000 in "gratuitous receipts" from someone with the initials "PD".

George Redmond told gardaí he regularly received large sums of money from people representing development companies his corruption trial has been told.

ON THE first St Patrick’s Day while at university in Texas in 1964, I was interviewed by the local daily newspaper as I was the only person from Ireland among more than 15,000 students.

BOTH are wing forwards and both play for Kilkenny at senior level but there the similarities begin and end for Eddie Brennan the hurler and Eddie Brennan the footballer.

POLITICAL and business leaders joined members of Charles Haughey’s family yesterday in a requiem Mass for the former Taoiseach at Our Lady of Consolation Church in Donnycarney.

OVER 33 sometimes tedious, and more often entertaining, days in the witness box at Dublin Castle in 1999, James Gogarty achieved a fame that few octogenarians experience.

THE director of the construction company which built the controversial home of former minister Ray Burke in Swords has been refused the vast majority of his legal costs by the Planning Tribunal.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) is to set up a special investigation unit to target wealthy property developers who bribed politicians and public officials.

WHILE it's some consolation to the public that Ray Burke won't be admiring the north Dublin trees for a few months, the fact remains that he'll make more money than most of us during his sojourn in Arbour Hill prison for tax offences.

KARAKATTA HILL won the Premier Cup at Templetuohy yesterday, flooring by two lengths the odds laid on the Kevin Barry trained Musical Hill.

TWO THIRDS of the clubs in Kerry are in favour of the GAA's Central Council being given the right to decide whether to allow rugby or soccer to be played in Croke Park.

I TRUST your columnist Noel Whelan didn’t receive any remuneration for his column (Irish Examiner, Sept 9) as he quite clearly ought to be back on the Fianna Fáil payroll.

RAY BURKE and NASA’s capsule, Genesis, have a few things in common. They were both in orbit and both came crashing down to earth in spectacular fashion.

THE tribunal into planning corruption was itself accused of questionable practices yesterday after a barrister claimed he was offered a deal of leniency for his client if he helped dig the dirt on key witness, Ray Burke.

BUILDERS Tom Brennan and Joseph McGowan must pay their own legal costs of over €2.6 million after the Planning Tribunal ruled the State was not obliged to foot their bill.

The Planning Tribunal has rejected an application by builders Joe McGowan and Tom Brennan to have their legal costs paid by the State.

The Planning Tribunal is due to issue its ruling today in an application for costs from builders Tom Brennan and Joe McGowan.

RAY BURKE will probably welcome the fact that neither he nor his legal team were required to attend Dublin Castle yesterday to hear the Planning Tribunal chairman, Judge Alan Mahon, issue a ruling that will see him out of pocket for some considerable time.

Former government minister Ray Burke was today hit with a massive legal bill for more than €10m after he was found to have hindered the Planning Tribunal.

FORMER minister, Ray Burke will learn today if taxpayers will be forced to pick up the €10.5m legal bill from his long-running involvement with the Planning Tribunal.

Builders Tom Brennan and Joseph McGowan are challenging the Mahon Tribunal’s decision to make them pay their own legal costs arising from the tribunal’s investigations.

Cork boats were to the fore at the first Irish Cruiser Racing National Championships which finished at Howth Yacht Club yesterday with 100 entries in four divisions.

FORMER Fianna Fáil minister Ray Burke has advised the chairman of the Planning Tribunal, Judge Alan Mahon, to look “close to home” for the source of leaks of confidential papers from the inquiry.

THERE is something ignominious about a frail 79-year-old man being hauled off to prison, shuffling along and trying to support himself with the aid of an umbrella.

IF George Redmond felt the world ceased to exist upon his arrest by the Criminal Assets Bureau at Dublin Airport four years ago, he must surely believe the heavens collapsed entirely on his life yesterday.