His name may be best known for fish and chips, but Leo Burdock was trying to batter Black & Tans in the War of Independence.

An organisation formed specifically to improve pay and conditions for members of the Defence Forces is planning a major protest march on the Dáil.

The Labour Court has recommended that consumer healthcare giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) pay a ‘loyalty’ windfall to its Nenagh-based workforce.

SOME time ago, well before this year’s election, when the leadership of Fianna Fáil was questioned in a way it might not be today, party venerable Willie O’Dea admitted that when he looked around the table at a Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting he did not see a messiah. 

The author of a report on Fine Gael’s general election campaign will be grilled on her findings during a behind-closed-doors meeting with party TDs on Monday.

Gardaí have appealed for witnesses following an alleged false imprisonment and attack on two women who claim they were held hostage by men they met on Facebook.

A married couple from Kildare who allowed their rented home to be used as a brothel have been spared jail after a judge suspended their sentences.

ICONS of Irish music don’t come much bigger than Christy Moore. The 68-year-old singer has just released a new album, Where I Come From.

Qatari-based technology retailer iConnect is set to make an €8m investment in the Irish retail market to become the Apple retail outlet of choice in Ireland.

IT was a time of huge change.

There was rare good news on the jobs front yesterday as three companies confirmed they were creating almost 200 positions.

Pfizer is to let 180 workers go at its two Cork plants in Little Island and Ringaskiddy, with staff to be briefed on the job losses later this week.

Pharmaceutical process development roles have doubled in Ireland thanks to shifts in US tax policies and other external drivers, according to NUI Maynooth economic geographer Chris van Egeraat.

TEAGASC food researcher Eimear Gallagher will discuss ways of adding value to grain at the Teagasc National Tillage Crops Forum will take place in the Keadeen Hotel, Newbridge, Co Kildare, on Wednesday next, September 7.

BREAK out the sun cream. It’s going to be another scorcher today with temperatures likely to be the best in Munster, Leinster and the Midlands, where they will reach highs of 22C.

AN increase in savage biting attacks in Cork city and county has left victims with whole ears, lips and even cheeks ripped off.

Irish efforts to evacuate citizens from Libya have been fiercely criticised for a second day after a teacher escaped a frightening 26-hour wait at Tripoli airport.

A pharmaceutical company and one of its contractors have been fined €40,000 each at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges relating to their waste management practices.

A pharmaceutical company and one of its contractors are to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in October in relation to waste management practices.

A 46-year-old man arrested in connection with the death of a man in Newbridge, Co Kildare in the early hours of Monday morning has been released without charge.

A pharmaceutical company and one of its contractors are to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in relation to waste management practices.

THE new minister for drugs has said both he and the Government were determined to stop head shops operating.

A MOTHER-OF-THREE who credits her optometrist with saving her life is living proof of the value in the advice: “Should have gone to Specsavers.”

THE country’s female-dominated primary teaching profession will have a woman as its most senior union official next year.

Gardaí say they have recovered a body which they believe to be that of a man who had been missing from his home in Newbridge, Co Kildare since Tuesday.

How was Ultimate Fighting converted from ‘human cockfighting’ to a multi-million dollar brand? The only way to find out was by getting into the famed Octagon, suggested a brave Adrian Russell.

The future of the Progressive Democrats is expected to be known later today.

A FRESH appeal will be launched today by detectives probing the whereabouts of a teenager who vanished 10 years ago.

Over 17,000 students from 160 nationalities are represented in the post-primary education sector in the Ireland, a Government minister revealed today.

TOP trainer Jim Bolger told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday a thoroughbred filly he sold to lobbyist Frank Dunlop for nearly £64,000 in 1992, broke her neck in collision with another horse on his stud farm the following year.

ALL the inmates at the most costly secure unit in the State were at large for a time over the weekend following two separate break-outs.

PHARMACEUTICAL giants Wyeth will invest more than €24 million in a development centre creating 20 jobs.

A 19-year-old cyclist has died after the bicycle was in collision with a van.

Quinn Group has announced its intention to close the Quinn Packaging Plant at Newbridge, Co Kildare with the loss of 41 jobs.

TWO men were charged last night in connection with a heroin seizure worth €1 million after a tip-off from Dutch police.

GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy has placed unsolved crimes as a major priority in his last year in charge of the force.

Millionaire property developer Sean Dunne today began a High Court action over the alleged sale of his 50% stake in the Whitewater Shopping Centre in Co Kildare for €37.5m.