Pfizer turned up the pressure on AstraZeneca today as the US drugs giant prepares to face a grilling from MPs over its £63bn (€77bn) takeover plan.

JURISDICTION to hear a case in the Dublin Children’s Court involving a boy arrested for attacking a youth with a glass bottle leaving him scarred and needing plastic surgery was refused today.

Dairy business Dale Farm in the North has expanded its business into the Republic, it was announced today.

Controversial American film maker and author Michael Moore today repeated his solution to the problems of Northern Ireland – all Protestants should immediately convert to Catholicism.