INTEL Corp has agreed to buy McAfee for $7.68 billion (€5.96bn), its largest acquisition, adding security software to its chipmaking arsenal.

IN a major jobs boost for Cork city, 210 jobs are to be created over the next six weeks in the construction of the new Cork Medical Centre.

A printing company tried to change the way it imposed charges on the Thomas Crosbie newspaper group in breach of an agreement between the parties, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.

A middle-aged man who threw a lit tissue through the letterbox of the southern headquarters of the Health Service Executive, causing more than €2m in damage, was today jailed for two years for arson.

A MIDDLE-AGED man confessed yesterday to carrying out an arson attack on the southern headquarters of the Health Service Executive in June 2007. The fire is estimated to have cost the HSE €2 million.

Eighty people are to be made redundant at Bourns Electronics in Mahon, Co Cork, it emerged this afternoon.

A DEVELOPMENT company gave assurances last night that unfinished apartments on a building sites picketed by workers will be completed.

TRAVELLERS were honoured last night for completing an EU-funded college course on horse care that is set to be rolled out nationwide.