Mary Hopkins reminisces on 30+ years attending the Cork Chamber Annual Dinner which takes place tonight in City Hall, Cork

Tributes have been paid on the retirement of a respected academic administrator who helped deliver two of the State’s most critical pieces of educational infrastructure.

The political landscape changed dramatically after last month’s elections, but it is more than likely it will change even more fundamentally after the next general election.

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BSkyB saw over £1.5bn (€1.8bn) wiped off its stock market value yesterday after Rupert Murdoch’s pay-TV group was beaten at its own game with the loss of Champions League soccer rights in the UK.

STEPPING across the threshold of PJ Mara’s home in leafy Ballsbridge, Dublin, you feel a certain dread that you’re about to be ripped apart as a journalist.

EVEN his opposition to the Church, his statement that the constitution is “my book”, is less about social radicalism than pursuing by different means the constant interests of changing politics.

Mobile phone apps have created a massive market opportunity and with comparatively low establishment costs, many start-ups are entering the industry, writes Brian O'Grady

WHAT a historic weekend.

A FORMER US government space scientist pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted espionage for trying to sell classified information to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli spy.

A BUSINESS incubation hub, which opened a major extension yesterday, was hailed by the Taoiseach as one of the most successful of its kind in Europe.

IT’S AN indication of what an instant hit Federico ‘Kiko’ Macheda has been with Reds that we are already scrambling about trying to knock up a song or two for him.

Everton have called for all fans to end the acrimony in Merseyside derbies and help return the friendly atmosphere of previous encounters.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan bailed out Fianna Fáil councillor Colm McGrath — a major supporter of his Quarryvale project in west Dublin — when he couldn’t pay a debt, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

A PLANNING application has been submitted to Meath County Council for a construction and demolition waste recycling plant to be built at the base of the Hill of Tara.

Billionaire New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner is coming to the Kentucky Derby with more than another World Series title on his mind. But he has plenty of competition to contend with, reports Simon Lewis

SINN FÉIN and the Provisional IRA have crossed the Rubicon into democratic politics.

Garvan and Clancy? Much like the Laois footballers, you mightn’t have heard much about them before this summer odyssey. But that’s all changed. Mark Gallagher reports.