Eventual stage winner Sam Bennett of  An Post Chain Reaction lies behind team-mate Shane Archbold as they enter Adare, Co Limerick,  during stage three of the  An Post Rás yesterday. Photograph: Inpho

Twenty four hours after he sacrificed his stage-winning chances for his Kiwi team-mate Shane Archbold, Sam Bennett seized the chance to take a (...)

Almost one million people have now paid or made arrangements to pay their local property tax, with one week to go to the deadline for filing th(...)

I moved to the Middle East for work a year ago. I would like to invest in a structured product (90 or 10(...)

New overall leader  Peter Hawkins  (Team IG Sigma Sport), celebrates after Stage Two of  An Post Rás, from  Longford to Nenagh. Photograph: Paul Mohan/Sportsfile

Taking over from stage one winner Conor Dunne at the top, Peter Hawkins (IG Sigma Sport) became the second Ir(...)

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin: move would represent   a change to his stated position of keeping the good cause fund at 30.5 per cent of total annual turnover

Good causes could receive less from the National Lottery in the future due to planned changes to the rules governing the schem(...)

Declan Harkin of Gtech: the Italian-owned company, which employs 70 staff at its Dublin office, already supplies An Post with the network of ticket terminals in shops

Gtech, the world’s largest lottery and gaming business, has confirmed it will bid for the State’s next lottery licence. (...)

Gtech has won three of the US lottery contracts: Indiana, Illinois and, last month, New Jersey. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty

Where better to launch a bid for the State’s lottery business than from inside its Dublin headquarters? Italian-owned gaming giant Gtech (...)

An Post’s chairman designate, Christoph
e
 Mueller, said that the ¤2.6 million earned by the company for operating the lottery last year was “very important” to it.

An Post’s incoming chairman indicated yesterday that he believes the State company should work with a partner if it bids to ke(...)

Chairman designate of An Post Christophe Mueller told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications  that the most unprofitable element of the business was the “last mile”  –  the final leg of its postal delivery service. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times

An Post’s most unprofitable business is its postal delivery service, the State company’s incoming chairman told an Oireachtas committee today. (...)

Wicklow postman Tom Gethings  delivering mail. Staffing numbers at An Post were paired back by 349 last year, bringing the reduction to 1,284 since 2009. Photograph: Eric Luke

An Post has recorded an after-tax loss of €39.4 million in 2012, due mainly to its sizeable pension deficit. A group op(...)

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