Nine Irish restaurants are to be featured in the Michelin Guide for 2014.

Our pick of this week’s starter homes from around the country

ONE of the country’s largest building groups, PJ Walls, recorded a pre-tax loss of €38.1 million in 2010 following a €44.4m writedown in its assets.

A GREAT meal out often has one best dish, a mouth-watering triumph whose memory outlasts all others.

PRE-TAX profits at one of the country’s largest building firms dropped 85% last year after revenues fell by €100 million.

SPILL THE BEANS, who had hit the bar on a couple of occasions previously, got off the mark when landing the opening maiden hurdle at Tramore yesterday.

IT was a case of midnight blue making an elegant afternoon impact as the Evian Ladies Day brought a sea of glitz and glamour to the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show yesterday.

The man accused of murdering a Portuguese national put on steel toe-capped para-boots before joining others for an assault on the victim, it was claimed today as the trial opened in Cork.

A jury have begun deliberating at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin in the trial of three British men accused of the murder of a 43-year-old Portuguese national on a "new age" campsite last year.

A 43 year-old Portuguese man who was found dead in a field near a New Age traveller’s campsite was the victim of a violent assault and suffered 13 separate blows to the head, a murder trial jury heard today.

A garda told a murder trial jury today that he found a "long bar" in grass during a search of a field following the discovery of the body of Portuguese man nearby.

A THIRD man appeared in court yesterday on a charge relating to the death of 45-year-old Portuguese national Sergio Abreu, whose battered body was found in a field at Whiting Bay near Ardmore, Co Waterford last Saturday.

Gardai are investigating the suspicious death of a Portuguese man in his thirties.