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Munster to avoid big guns in pool stage
16.06.2008 23:23
ireland.com
RUGBY NEWSMUNSTER WILL hope to avoid another so-called "pool of death" when they discover their opponents for next season's Heineken Cup this morning. Under the new seeding system, based on rankings for the first time, the two-time winners are unlikely to have to navigate a group containing three European heavyweights as they were forced to do this year.
Ireland
Sports
O'Brien eyes bumper week
16.06.2008 23:22
ireland.com
ASCOT PREVIEWTHE AIDAN O'Brien-John Murtagh team have a bumper Group One week in their sights at Royal Ascot although the view will get a lot cloudier if Henrythenavigator can't follow in some illustrious Ballydoyle hoofprints and land the first-day feature.
Ireland
Sports
Beijing spot entices as lightweight four sweep straight into Poznan final
16.06.2008 23:22
ireland.com
ROWING 2008 FINAL OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION REGATTAIRELAND'S LIGHTWEIGHT four won their heat yesterday and swept straight into tomorrow's final at the Olympic Qualification regatta in Poznan.
Ireland
Sports
'Racing Post' on track for £1.51m profit after tax
16.06.2008 23:22
ireland.com
THE IRISH private equity company that bought out the Racing Post newspaper for £170 million (€215.5 million) last October expects the title and its sister operations to make post-tax profits of £1.51 million in the year to September and increase its annual net profit to more than £5 million by 2012.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Eircom owner to review share buyback scheme
16.06.2008 23:22
ireland.com
AUSTRALIAN INVESTMENT fund Babcock Brown Capital (BCM), Eircom's immediate owner, will review its share buyback programme this week in light of an abrupt loss of investor confidence in its manager, investment bank Babcock Brown.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Nagle wants a Payzone egm to sack three directors
16.06.2008 23:22
ireland.com
OUSTED PAYZONE chief executive John Nagle is set to seek the sacking of three of the company's independent directors.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
IBM to invest €7m in water management think-tank
16.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
IBM IS to invest €7 million through the opening of a new centre of excellence for water management at its Dublin campus.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Oil prices soar to almost $140 despite Saudi indications of output boost
16.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
CRUDE OIL prices yesterday jumped to a fresh high of almost $140 a barrel despite indications from Saudi Arabia that it would boost production to its highest level for more than 25 years.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
AirAppz offers wi-fi deal to Irish Rail
16.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
OFFALY-BASED AirAppz has offered to install and manage high-speed wireless internet access on inter-city trains at no cost to Iarnród Éireann.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Primark move on child labour
16.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
THE PRIMARK budget clothing chain, which operates as Penneys in the Republic, has said it will stop buying clothes from three factories in India because they used child labour.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Warning of new wave of world food inflation
16.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
THE WORLD economy faces a fresh wave of food inflation as the price of meat surges on the back of record prices for corn and soyabean, the main fodder crops for farm animals.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
US delays giving licences to two Chinese banks
16.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
THE US has held back approval of banking licences for China's two biggest banks because of concerns over the role of China's sovereign wealth fund as their largest shareholder, according to US and Chinese officials.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Euro-zone inflation hits 3.7%
16.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
EURO-ZONE inflation has been revised up to the highest level for 16 years and a European Central Bank official has warned that rising wage costs could add increasingly to the pressures created by soaring oil prices.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Barclays' shares up as stockholders' worries are eased
16.06.2008 23:21
ireland.com
BARCLAYS' SHARES jumped in London trading yesterday after the bank eased concerns that selling more stock will hurt current shareholders and said earnings last month were better than a year earlier.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
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