OPERATING profits at the family-owned Sam McCauley Chemists chain rose by more than a third in 2004 to just over €2 million.

THE Sam McCauley Chemists Group investment in expansion this year will hit €12.5 million as the company targets a doubling of turnover to €100m by 2008.

THE final bill from the storms that lashed the country over the last two days could run into tens of millions of euros.

Gardaí are searching for two armed raiders who held up staff at a post office in Wexford town.