Ahead of Father’s Day on June 19, Vicki Notaro catches up with fathers, and the sons who have taken the same career path.

Unspecified legal matters are delaying the winding up of the collapsed firm behind Irish Psychics Live.

Up to 1,500 new jobs were confirmed in a series of investments in the technology and environmental service sectors.

New figures show that the collapsed firm behind Irish Psychics Live, founded by space buff Tom Higgins, has left debts of over €2m to unsecured creditors.

A liquidator has been appointed to the firm behind Irish Psychics Live.

It was in the stars... the firm behind Irish Psychics Live, founded by space buff Tom Higgins, has crashed back to earth and gone out of business.

FOUNDING managing director of Irish Psychics Live and space buff Tom Higgins shared a dividend payout of €9.6 million before selling the company that operates the premium rate phone line, new figures show.

Fine Gael's John Deasy leads the way after the first count in Waterford with 10,718 votes.

SNOW and ice in the south caused some panic buying of milk, bread and fuel in supermarkets but many people just decided to stay at home on what is normally the busiest shopping weekend of the year.

THE company that operates the Irish Psychics Live premium phone lines increased its operating profits last year to €1.5 million.

TICKLING the taste buds of visitors with top-quality Irish food can give tourism a nourishing boost, it was suggested last night.

WATERFORD County Council has commenced enforcement proceedings against a TK Maxx outlet in Waterford after An Bord Pleanála found it had contravened planning laws.

MORE Irish people are taking holidays outside the eurozone because of the strengthening euro, the Irish Travel Agents Association (ITAA) revealed yesterday.

THE mayor of Co Waterford has extended his sympathies to the family of a man feared drowned after slipping into the River Tiber in Rome.

A CORONER and a jury yesterday recommended that hospitals should “liaise better” when patients were moved from one hospital to another.

AN inventors’ village, environmental visitors centre, sustainable housing, and an eco-lodge are all features of an innovative project in rural Co Waterford.

US stocks ended another tumultuous day with a big gain, partly recovering from its worst sell-off in years after the Federal Reserve said it was keeping interest rates unchanged at 2%.

Wall Street retrenched today, closing sharply lower as investors showed their cautious side and cashed in profits from the market's best week in nearly five years.

Some of Mayo's less-known footballers will have a chance to impress manager John O'Mahony when the county's FBD Connacht League campaign begins against NUI Galway on Sunday.

Wall Street suffered one of its worst losses of 2007 today, leading a global stock market plunge as investors succumbed to months of worry about the mortgage and corporate lending markets.

A COMMON drug used in Ireland to ease arthritis pain was linked yesterday to acute liver failure in an elderly widow who died last year.

THE Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has launched a crackdown on companies involved in sending people unsolicited premium text messages.

THEY didn’t see it coming.

TV ads offering fortune-telling services face an unpredictable future after the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) found they are in breach of legislation.

THE threat by a member of Fianna Fáil to split ranks with his six party colleagues on Waterford County Council petered out at the conclusion of an extraordinary reconvened annual estimates meeting last night.

A company is to be sentenced today for electronic spamming in the first case of its kind in Ireland.

A WATERFORD TD who urged those mourning the loss of 485 jobs at crystal plants to shrug off the losses and “start living in the real world” just days after the cuts were announced has been criticised by union officials for his remarks.

AS union leaders prepare to meet senior management at the troubled Waterford Crystal plant this morning, local councillors have been voicing their dissatisfaction with the way the 480 job cuts were announced last week.

PRESSURE is mounting on the Government to hold an investigation into the collapse of the Media Lab Europe (MLE) research venture.

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Noel Dempsey has announced the first stage in finding a new research entity to take over the failed MediaLab Europe venture at Dublin’s Digital Hub.

IT was arguably the world’s greatest race as the Russian and American superpowers locked in combat in a bid to conquer the final frontier: the very heavens themselves.

Mr John Casey, president and chief operating officer of reinsurance company nSpire Re Limited, has been elected chairman of the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants (LSCA).

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A CHARTERED accountant, who qualified in 1997, earns an average of just under €73,000, according to the annual salary survey of the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants (LSCA).

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By Tom Higgins VANILLA MAN can overcome a rise in class to take the Elan Midlands National Handicap at Kilbeggan tonight.

Kabel Hessen GMbH & Co KG [Iesy], one of the largest broadband cable operators in Germany has entered into a multi-year agreement to deploy Interactive Enterprise's Conexion platform as its high speed data, voice and interactive TV services provisioning and service activation platform.

On the opening day fo the 2001 interpros, holders Leinster were held to a draw by Ulster who finished last at Thurles 12 months ago.