One of the country’s most exclusive gyms and fitness centres, which is often used by Irish rugby players, must pay the man credited with making it a success almost €300,000 for unfair dismissal.

IT is not clear why Cork city councillor Joe O’Callaghan has chosen to lob a political grenade into the public domain at this point.

GARDAÍ are investigating a graffiti attack on the Taoiseach’s constituency office in which the words “Blood on your hands” were daubed.

Philips has announced that it is to cut 1,600 jobs in its semiconductor unit in an effort to make it profitable.

THE bull-run on world stock markets this week may be more of a trot than a stampede, according to economists who believe the good figures driving the market are not all that they seem.

Four 20-year-old students have been charged with manslaughter following an incident outside a Dublin hotel last summer in which a teenager died.