Ex-ESB chief Padraig McManus gets €800,000 package
FORMER ESB boss Padraig McManus is getting a retirement package worth up to an estimated €800,000 this year -- and he will also be entitled to cut-price electricity.
Saturday, January 28 2012
FORMER ESB boss Padraig McManus is getting a retirement package worth up to an estimated €800,000 this year -- and he will also be entitled to cut-price electricity.
HOPES were fading last night for a father of one who went missing on a lake yesterday morning.
Derry has been chosen to host Ireland's national traditional music festival - bringing the event north of the Irish border for the first time.
A STUDENT falsely accused of not paying a taxi fare in an internet video is trying to have the chief executive of YouTube jailed for contempt of court after the clip was put up again on the web.
A DRIVER sacked after pulling his lorry into a motorway hard shoulder to take a call from the 'Gerry Ryan Show' has prayed to the late broadcaster to get reinstated.
THE High Court has been asked to rule on a dispute over a €212,000 instruction fee approved for a firm of solicitors representing a young boy who secured a €800,000 settlement over serious injuries suffered in a road accident.
JOHN Curran has attended many going away parties in the last year but never dreamed he'd be holding one himself.
A MAN accused of a lewd act in front of a 12-year-old boy at a swimming pool said yesterday he was "over the moon" after a jury found him not guilty.
The police ombudsman is investigating how a man fell from a moving police vehicle leaving him in a critical condition.
TAOISEACH Enda Kenny last night claimed his controversial comments that "mad borrowing" by Irish people caused the economic crash were taken out of context -- as a string of cabinet ministers rushed to defend him.
DEMI Moore had "smoked something" before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night, according to a recording of an emergency phone call made public yesterday.
HE was once a high-flying businessman with a multi-million euro empire.
Dirk Kuyt hit the late winner as Liverpool gained revenge for their FA Cup exit at the hands of Manchester United a year ago.
THE takeover activity in the stockbroking sector continued apace yesterday after South African firm Investec agreed to buy NCB Stockbrokers.
Everyone from Cavalli to Etro and Marc Jacobs to Ralph Lauren embraced the 1920s trend for Spring/Summer. But no one has nailed it better and given it more of a contemporary feel than Gucci.
Three topless Ukrainian protesters have been detained after trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of political leaders.
Cillian Murphy has said he knew things were going well in his acting career when people started to pronounce his name correctly.
OLIVER Morgan, who was born with practically no blood, was rescued following a lifesaving transfusion.
WELL-INTENTIONED parents can keep their children so busy on organised activities it damages their school performance.
THE National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) says house prices here have further to fall as disposable incomes also decline.
APPLE has launched an investigation into practices its factories in China that include child labour, 24 hour working days and unsafe conditions at the plants which manufacture its iPhones, iPads and computers.
The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an "invented people" -- courtesy of Newt Gingrich -- but the only Arabs on the Mediterranean not to enjoy a Spring or an Awakening or even a Winter.
EARLY signs of autism can be detected in babies as young as six months by measuring their brain activity, a study has found for the first time.
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