Retailer Screwfix is coming to Ireland and said it plans to open up to 40 stores here in the future.

I was a good student always. I studied like mad. Every night of my life I would study for four hours at home, says Francis Brennan

The best dramas always have a plot twist at the end.

A lab firm being sued in the High Court by a number of women concerning alleged failings in the HSE’s CervicalCheck programme last year increased its revenues here by 12% to €9.238m.

Plans for more than 1,300 homes have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

A new report by An Bord Pleanála has illustrated the regional imbalance of large housing, apartment and student accommodation development proposals, with the vast majority located in the Dublin and commuter region.

Fiona Kirwan, Director of Nursing, Beacon Hospital, Sandyford

Expansion costs contributed to pre-tax profits at the Irish arm of French catering and food services firm Sodexo declining by 25% to €2.76m last year.

When infrastructure requires the sacrifice of communities it seems only better-off areas with political connections can stand up to projects, writes Michael Clifford.

UCC’s acquisition of the Irish Management Institute (IMI) was a major driver of a 7.7% increase in the university’s income to €371.7m in 2017, according to its latest accounts.

The Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB) has defended its decision to retrospectively accredit a laboratory that it did not even know existed was operational for an extended period of time.

Gerard Taylor is missing from Sandyford since May 25.

A father-of-one who was caught with over 4,000 images and videos of child pornography almost seven years ago has walked free from court with a fully suspended sentence.

Have you seen Gerard Taylor?

Gerard Taylor was last seen when he left his home in Sandyford at approximately 9am yesterday morning.

The health authority's national director of screening services, Damien McCallion, said there is currently a backlog of 79,500 slides, with some samples taking up to 33 weeks to be reviewed.

The Central Bank paid €1.5m on travel, hotels, and in fees to a travel agent for its staff last year.

The Central Bank last year paid hotels.com more than €540,000 in fees for its travelling staff.

It has emerged a medical lab that takes up to seven months to process smear tests for the HSE has been fast-tracking the results for private patients.

A woman now terminally ill with cervical cancer, who claims she had a 95% chance of being successfully treated if a smear test taken almost nine years ago was read and reported correctly, has told the High Court she feels "lost in the system" and "of no significance".

The National Transport Authority (NTA) and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) have confirmed that the preferred route for Dublin’s Metro will only extend southbound as far as Charlemont.

The cost of the long-awaited MetroLink project could be substantially higher than the original €3bn figure.

It is believed the southside section of the line will be scrapped.

Two people who screened the now terminally ill Ruth Morrissey’s smear test for the MedLab laboratory in 2012 which came back as negative have been withdrawn from the witness list in the long-running case.

A privately-funded rapid transport network is being proposed for Dublin. Jed van de Poll, Dublin Metro CEO, explains an alternative to the Government-supported project Metrolink Metro Dublin has a grand vision for the capital city’s public transport.

Frits Potgieter has been appointed as general manager of the 5-star Muckross Park Hotel & Spa in Killarney, part of the iNua Collection.

Water Babies from across the country have been honoured at Little Hero awards in Dublin this week.

Privately owned insurer Chill Insurance is expecting further strong earnings growth in its current financial year, after posting a near-40% jump in pre-tax profits for last year.

Irish-owned IT consultancy Arkphire is likely to seek further acquisition opportunities this year, including potential overseas expansion.

A free-roam virtual reality experience said to be the first of its kind in Ireland, is to open in March offering players the opportunity to fend off zombie hordes, among other games.

Pat Keogh’s father was obviously a very persistent man.

I get by on about five hours’ sleep so I’m awake at the dawn, enough time to squeeze in a read, a few yoga stretches and coffee, before hitting the road at 7am.

I thought it was all over for trains and GAA supporters, and I thought I had the exact moment the romance had ended: when Cork decided to go by bus to Dublin.

The planned new Metro line in south Dublin will create a “Berlin Wall” severing communities, forcing people to use cars and creating urban blight, residents have warned.

A man with a learning disability who contracted Hepatitis B from a dirty needle while gardening died due to the virus twenty years later.

A Tallaght-based crafts blogger and a 99-year-old former Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot who now takes to the virtual skies in flight simulators were among those honoured at this year’s Silver Surfer Awards.

There's also one more exciting announcement coming soon!

Shane O’Donnell will miss most, if not all, of Clare’s 2019 Allianz Hurling League Division 1A campaign after he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the prestigious Harvard University.

The Central Bank could stop printing euro banknotes here as part of a strategic review.

This involved the staff, including Principal and Deputy Principal, (safely) jumping into the biggest pile of snow they could find.

Heavy snow and treacherous driving conditions have already caused travel chaos nationwide — with the worst of the weather yet to hit the country.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for the public’s help to find 16-year-old Ned Cash Connors.

The traditional practice of evening removal services in churches as part of Irish funerals is dying out.

For entrepreneurs and freelancers, a rise in co-working spaces gives workers more choice, says Emma Kennedy.