Businessman Jim Kennedy was taken to hospital today after being arrested for questioning about bribery and corruption allegations.

ISLE of Man-based airline Manx2 is planning major investments in the Irish market which will see more routes from Cork airport.

Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister Mary Coughlan will discuss the economy with Irish and British politicians in Co Donegal tomorrow.

A major security operation is moving into place to protect dozens of senior British and Irish politicians meeting at a lakeside hotel in Co Donegal next week.

British savers who stand to lose millions of pounds through the collapse of the offshore arm of an Icelandic bank received a boost today when a liquidation hearing was postponed.

The Belfast-based Northern Bank today sold its off-shore banking business in the Isle of Man to the Isle of Man Bank – part of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group.

Singer Charlotte Church made the most of her star power after nearly missing a flight to the Spanish isle of Ibiza with her boyfriend.

CHRISTIAN brothers College, Cork and Newbridge College, Co Kildare will contest the final of the 2005 Thomas Crosbie Holdings All-Ireland Schools Quiz on April 29 at UCC.

GAA PRESIDENT Sean Kelly has backed novel rule changes for next year’s secondary provincial competitions which could trigger the introduction of the sin-bin into Gaelic games.

Members of the Irish-British Inter-Parliamentary Body will be briefed by Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy on the latest developments in the peace process at their twice-yearly conference in Wales tomorrow.

NECESSITY is the mother of invention, goes the old adage. It held true when Colette Swift arrived in London some years ago and walked straight into he middle of a tube train strike and had no option but to buy a bike to commute across the city to work.

The most powerful hurricane to hit the Caribbean in a decade killed at least 15 people and devastated Grenada, damaging 90% of homes in the ”spice isle” and destroying a 17th-century prison that left criminals on the loose.

Teenage soprano Charlotte Church has been ordered to diet by her mum - who is horrified by her daughter's dramatic weight gain.

An Post denied today that it made a mapping blunder by slicing a new European Union member state from its commemorative stamp run.

THE county championship schedule winds a little closer to conclusion this weekend with a handful of finals and replays to be decided before the provincial campaigns can begin in earnest.

A CONTROVERSIAL tax exile under investigation by the Flood Tribunal is expected to snub the inquiry by failing to turn up to give evidence at Dublin Castle today.