The artist Anthony Haughey has taken an interesting tack to commemorate the centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout, as part of a strand at this year’s Cork Film Festival. He’s put together a programme of films that celebrate workers’ rights from around the world.

An application by billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien to be added, as a defendant, to a multi-million-euro legal action against the State, will be heard in the High Court on Oct 9.

Seventeen years after it was awarded, the second mobile phone licence, the most lucrative ever awarded by the State, is still embroiled in controversy, as competitors for the licence get their day in court, writes Michael Clifford

Ireland is eyeing up the next wave of foreign direct investment by signing a bilateral agreement to boost the budding cleantech sector and secure future jobs.

THEY’VE been getting a little bit hot and bothered over a book up in Donegal, if you haven’t heard.

BACK in 1992, when they won the All-Ireland for the first time, the composition of the Donegal team was such that it rewarded players nearing the end of their careers and held out the promise of further glory for those starting out on theirs.

DISGRACED ex-minister, Micheal Lowry, will attempt to defend his actions in the awarding of a state mobile phone licence with a Dáil statement on the Moriarty Tribunal.

ESAT founder Denis O’Brien has launched another stinging criticism of the Moriarty Tribunal.

MOBILE phone retailer 3G Mobile has gone into voluntary liquidation after attempts to secure new investment in the business failed.

THE crushing defeat by Cork was a bitter pill to swallow, but John Joe Doherty says he has no hesitation in nailing his colours to the Donegal mast for 2010.

ALL-IRELAND winner John Joe Doherty has declared his interest in succeeding Brian McIver as Donegal senior football manager.

MILLIONAIRE businessman Denis O’Brien yesterday lost his legal bid in the High Court to restrain the Moriarty Tribunal from calling economist Peter Bacon to give evidence in public about the procedures which led to the award of the State’s second mobile phone licence to Esat Digifone.

FORMER Communications Minister Michael Lowry has admitted he ignored the advice of his senior civil servants in agreeing to meet businessmen involved in bidding for the State’s second mobile phone licence during 1995.

PETER CANAVAN, who revealed yesterday that he had intended to retire at the end of this year’s championship regardless of the outcome, was initially opposed to coming off at half-time in Sunday’s final against Kerry.

Tony Boyle, Chief Executive of the Sigma Wireless Group, has said that Irish manufacturing companies will not be able to compete on a global basis, unless they become more involved in designing new products and services for world markets.

THE consortium beaten to the country's second mobile phone licence will proceed with a multi-million euro civil action against the State irrespective of the Moriarty Tribunal's findings, said Persona chairman Tony Boyle.

THE opening statement of the Moriarty Tribunal’s latest module investigating the awarding of the country's second mobile phone licence has revealed the following information, claims and counterclaims.

FINANCIER Dermot Desmond told one of the failed bidders for the State’s second mobile phone licence he knew who Denis O’Brien would use to get to Michael Lowry, the Moriarty Tribunal was told yesterday.