One of Dublin's best known cinemas, the Odeon Stillorgan, is up for sale for a price of €3.5m.

IT BEGAN with a four-hour car ride, a ferry full of merry priests, nuns, bishops and hairy babies, and it got stranger from there.

THE smell of popcorn mingled with the scent of flowers from well-wishers yesterday as one of the country’s oldest cinemas closed down.

Alphyra, Europe’s largest independent payment network, has acquired the Irish mobile payments software firm Itsmobile, it was announced today.