Opel Ireland has announced the creation of 26 new jobs as it expands its network of dealerships.

Aloft and aloof, this polished gem sparkles atop the city with charming features and a cracking location, finds Tommy Barker

Five animal rights activists who intimidated companies linked to Huntingdon Life Sciences in Britain an attempt to close down the animal-testing lab were sentenced to between six years and 15 months in prison today.

KILCROHANE in west Cork is the kind of place that makes you believe in God. With this week’s Mediterranean skies and glorious sunshine, it was somewhere that few would be capable of driving through without giving in to the urge to pull up at the roadside and drink up the view over Dunmanus Bay.

GARDAÍ are searching for a jewel thief who would make the legendary Raffles proud, robbing a haul which is rumoured to be worth several hundred thousand euro.

“ACROSS the Tracks” is the unusual name for a big family home in the Glounthane region of east Cork... close enough to walk in just a few minutes to a commuter rail link back to the city.

SEVEN businesses, including two supermarkets, were shut down last month for poor hygiene that posed a threat to public health, it emerged yesterday.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell recently suggested that because we have ‘the gist’ of the corruption involved, the Mahon tribunal should be wrapped up.

EDDIE HOBBS has been calling on consumers to email Tesco and Dunnes to demand that they reduce their prices now that the Groceries Order has been repealed.

GARDAÍ who exhumed four bodies from a graveyard close to the home of a convicted rapist and murderer say they are satisfied that information they had received about an illegal burial, while incorrect, was reliable and was given in good faith.

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 new-look RT2000 car was unveiled at the Dunlop Night of Champions in Fitzpatrick’s Killiney Castle Hotel over the weekend.