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Fine Gael junior minister Dara Murphy has defended his controversial €85-a-head fundraising breakfast with the justice minister, and insisted he has “nothing to hide”.

Councillors in a Co Cork town are hoping broadband will be introduced in tandem with major work on its flood prevention and sewerage systems, to avoid having to re-dig at a later stage.

Ervia has launched an investigation into allegations of financial misappropriation, made by a former employee. The allegation concerns a senior figure in the state gas company.

SIPTU says it wont accept any unilateral changes to the terms of employment of their members at Irish Water.

Tragic pensioner Peggy Mangan died from hypothermia having walked for 23 kilometres, an inquest has heard.

Party politics as practised in Ireland is no longer fit for purpose.

Irish Water workers who underperform will be rewarded with bonuses, it has emerged.

Rebecca Storm is back in Blood Brothers, the show which made her famous, says Jo Kerrigan.

In Opposition, Pat Rabbitte, facing Ireland’s most reckless, incompetent, and corrupt government, performed with vigour and style. He was articulate, robust, and incisive, making them shift uneasily in their Dáil seats.

Exit pay costs for its departing CEO and finance director pushed total directors’ remuneration at Dublin-based utility group, NTR up by over 60% last year to more than €4m.

CORK harbour and port amenity with a deep water jetty at Marino Point is to be sold after a ‘Best Bids’ process in October, with a price expectation of up to €7m indicated.

Cape Town Opera’s production of Show Boat is a powerful commentary on race and rights — and you will feel its meaning anywhere in the world, writes Jo Kerrigan

As the latest figures show more than 706 homes had their electricity cut off in May and more than 500 lost their gas supply, Fianna Fáil demanded the Government address a €450 per-year increase in energy prices.

It is time people stopped illegally tampering with gas meters and putting pilots’ lives at risk. Both are lunatic-fringe offences.

Terry Prone’s article (Opinion, July 7) on ageism is right on the mark. There is no substitute for experience and knowledge which, very often, comes with age.

Bord Gáis is checking out of several of its office spaces on Cork city’s Lapps Quay — just as Cork City Council prepares a €2m quay upgrade, to include the €800,000 purchase of the old Cork Savings Bank at 1 Lapps Quay.

Consumers could be in line for a cash break, with experts predicting that the electricity price war will result in savings for hard-pressed households.

Killester will be crowned men’s Premier League champions if they beat UL Eagles tomorrow and Bord Gáis Neptune on Sunday.

Electricity prices at Bord Gais are going up by around 51 cent a week from March 1.

AROUND 20 staff look after the Lee Road waterworks facility in Cork which supplies most of the drinking water to homes and businesses across the city. The old waterworks have been there since the 1700s.

IF Irish Water is to be more than a balance sheet exercise to lower the national debt, the organisation needs to be freed of the legacy inefficiencies inherited from local authorities.

The Taoiseach said he does not know if former local authority staff with “generous” pensions and lump sums have taken up new senior management positions in Irish Water.

Former Waterford county manager Ray O’Dwyer, who retired with a package totalling €334,000, has been appointed to a senior management position at Irish Water.

Irish Water has defended the payment of bonuses to its staff.

Ministers were left red-faced after it was revealed 299 staff at Irish Water are in line for bonuses of up to €7,000 on average — despite Cabinet outrage at the move.

Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte has said he does not yet know the cost of deferring the sale of the energy business of Bord Gáis.

A decision to refrain from selling the retail arm of Bord Gáis will not affect budget plans for 2014, which will instead be supplemented by the sale of assets belonging to the ESB, the Department of Finance has said.

The Government has refused to comment on the effect that the withdrawal of Tenaga Nasional will have on the bidding process for the sale of Bord Gáis.

Bord Gáis was prosecuted yesterday by the Data Protection Commission for sending an email promoting a charitable fundraiser which ended up netting €150,000 for St Vincent de Paul.

Following the withdrawal of one of the three bidders from the sales process, it now looks unlikely that Bord Gáis’s retail and power generation division will be sold before 2014.

International crises, no matter where they occur, drive the price of oil up and down like a yo-yo, thereby affecting the cost of living in Ireland and every country which has to buy its oil and gas on the international markets, not to mention wheelers and dealers at all levels in between.

The Lotto sell-off will unlock €200m in ring-fenced funding for the long-delayed National Children’s Hospital, the Government has pledged.

A man who was caught covered with red dye minutes after he stole a cash box from a security van has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail, with the final 18 months suspended.

More than 20,000 homes had their electricity or gas cut off last year for failing to pay their bills, figures reveal.

This terrace has the city on its doorstep, plus plenty of room and loads of character, writes Tommy Barker

No doubt you’ve heard by now that Wicked, the musical which tells the story of Oz from the witches’ perspective and one that has taken Broadway and the West End like a Kansas storm for the last 10 years, is coming to Dublin.

We apologize in advance.

The rock musical Starlight Express is leaving audiences in a spin at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin with a brand new production from original choreographer Arlene Phillips.

The former Bord Gáis chief John Mullins has been appointed the chairman of the Port of Cork.

A magnificent exhibition of shooting from Bord Gáis Neptune point guard Gary Walsh helped his side qualify for the final of the Mens SuperLeague national cup final.