Sinn Féin TD John Brady and his wife Gayle have been awarded €6,000 over an attempt by a local authority to evict them from their rented council home.

IRELAND breached the rights of a Wicklow company involved in a series of lengthy legal actions against insurance firms which refused to pay out damages following a fire at a factory, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

Some 240 jobs were tonight axed at a pharmaceutical plant as fears grew over the future of a bathroom products maker.

An international computer components maker today confirmed it could not live up to a pledge to employ more than 400 workers at a plant in Waterford.