THE examiner to the Thomas Read Group, operators of 18 of Dublin’s best known bars and restaurants, wants the High Court to approve his scheme of survival for the hostelries rather than that proposed by the group’s largest creditor, ACC Bank.

The High Court has granted orders for the winding up of four companies in the Thomas Read group on grounds they have no reasonable prospect of survival.

THE HIGH Court will be asked on Monday to make orders for the winding up of four of the 14 companies in the Thomas Read group on the grounds they have no reasonable prospect of survival.

HE may have been described as having a voice like a bullfrog with a hangover, but it was considered the voice of Dublin and made him a cultural icon.

A bright orange and red flash, a crack and then a huge blast shattered the heart of the country on a warm summer’s evening.

A fire-fighter has been injured while battling a blaze at Trinity College in Dublin last night.

PECCADILLO has an excellent record on his rare visits to Huntingdon and can make it three wins from four starts at the track today.

A man in his seventies is in a critical condition in St James hospital after inhaling smoke from a blaze in a house in central Dublin.

Richard Johnson faces up to three months on the sidelines after breaking his right leg in a horror fall from Lincoln Place at Newton Abbot.