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Seven seek qualifying time for Games
03.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
SWIMMING NEWS: A SEVEN-STRONG Irish squad have been announced by Swim Ireland to compete at the Dutch National championships in Eindhoven, which start tomorrow and end on Sunday.
Ireland
Sports
Plenty on show to please Simmons
03.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
CRICKET COLUMN: IRELAND COACH Phil Simmons must have enjoyed his trip to Rathmines last Saturday. The hottest day of the year to date would have sat well with the Trinidad native, and the balmy conditions were complemented perfectly by a cracking game between Leinster and Clontarf, with close on 650 runs scored.
Ireland
Sports
Support of sporting federations swings it for Mosley
03.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
MOTOR SPORT NEWS: MAX MOSLEY was not spraying champagne from the balcony of the headquarters of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in Paris after winning yesterday's vote of confidence in his presidency of world motoring's governing body. He was, in fact, not saying a word.
Ireland
Sports
SPORTS DIGEST
03.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
A round up of today's other stories in brief...
Ireland
Sports
Consumers and businesses must put up with high fuel prices, says Lenihan
03.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
CONSUMERS AND businesses have to put up with rising fuel prices instead of “whingeing” about them, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan said yesterday.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Permanent TSB raises fixed-rate mortgages
03.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
THE STATE’S largest mortgage lender, Permanent TSB, has raised its fixed rates on its Irish buy-to-let investor mortgages as bank stocks tumbled amid concerns about rising arrears on buy-to-let mortgages in the UK.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Roches to gain €118m in NTR liquidity event
03.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
NTR CHAIRMAN Tom Roche and his family are poised to receive some €118 million from a €275 million liquidity event at the company. Investment firm One51 will receive €70.4 million.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Ryanair profits soar 20% to €480.9m
03.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
SHARES IN Ryanair rose by 5.4 per cent to just under €2.85 in Dublin yesterday in spite of the airline warning that it would probably only break even in the year to the end of March 2009.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
O'Leary's failure to hedge fuel costs hits home
03.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
ANALYSIS: RYANAIR BOSS Michael O'Leary must wish now that he'd hedged the airline's fuel costs when oil started trading at $100 a barrel last year, writes Ciarán Hancock.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Ryanair: results for year to March
03.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
The key figures.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Consumer confidence at lowest level in 12 years
03.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
SOARING OIL prices, increasing mortgage costs and fears over job security have driven Irish consumer confidence to its lowest level in 12 years. The overall IIB/ESRI index of consumer sentiment, published today, dropped to 48.8 in May, down from 56 in March, its lowest reading since the index began in 1996.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Tesco seeks price cuts from UK suppliers
03.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
TESCO IRELAND has told its suppliers in the UK that it expects them to cut their prices to reflect the recent surge in value of the euro against sterling.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
BCI to review radio licences held by Denis O'Brien
03.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
THE BROADCASTING Commission of Ireland (BCI) has initiated a review of the radio licences held by businessman Denis O’Brien in light of his increasing stake in Independent Ne 1381 ws Media (INM), although the parameters of its inquiry remain unclear.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Manufacturing output continues to contract
03.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
FALLING DEMAND and a slowdown in new orders hit the Republic's manufacturers last month, the latest figures show. The NCB Stockbrokers' purchasing managers' index (PMI) for manufacturing shows that production contracted at its second-fastest rate in 10 years last month.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
TV3 wins Champions League rights
03.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
TV3 HAS won exclusive rights to show UEFA Champions League matches on Tuesday nights for three years from September 2009 onwards.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
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