The Food Safety Authority said there was no justification for businesses to be in breach of the food safety legislation, after 11 enforcement orders were served last month on hotels, restaurants, takeaway and wholesale providers.

The rejection of a couple’s complaint that a bank breached a loan contract by increasing the variable rate on their mortgages was a correct decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

GARDAÍ are searching for two bungling thieves whose van — laden with a large amount of stolen property — got bogged down in a field.

VIRTUALLY a new house, in an old shell, is the Strand Road, Monkstown, house at 1 Ard na Ri.

SEEN from sea, it could be the Cote d’Azur or the Miami shoreline but the location is Bray, Co Wicklow, on the Irish Sea.