Banners Broker says it is not a pyramid scheme. So what is it, Investigative correspondent Conor Ryan asks

THESE are busy times for hotelier Conor Fitzgerald, the last few weeks in the run-up to Christmas, office parties by the dozen to be arranged in the two Fitzgerald family hotels, one in his native Adare – the Woodlands – the other in Cork, the Vienna Woods Hotel in Glanmire.

LIMERICK Lions are aiming for a hat-trick of away victories tomorrow night as they travel to Cork to play UCC Demons in the first round of the SuperLeague Men’s National Cup.

VIENNA WOODS Glanmire basketball player Adriana Spears has received a two-year ban after testing positive for cocaine.

Fouling traffic and tempers, heavy snow fell today on much of Europe that had been deprived of anything more than a dusting for weeks, giving Rome a rare winter blanket and shutting down the main airport in Montenegro.

Helping businesses adjust to the large increase in insurance costs is the aim of a series of free seminars starting today.