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Flutter described approval by the UK mergers regulator as a ‘significant milestone’ in the deal’s progress. File photograph: PA
Regulators yet to clear Paddy Power owner Flutter’s €12bn merger

Regulators in the Republic have yet to clear Paddy Power owner Flutter Entertainment’s €12 billion merger with The Stars Group while the UK’s competit(...)

Man who spent 16 years in jail for son’s murder sent to Central Mental Hospital

The wife of a man, who spent 16 years in jail for the murder of his infant son, has told a court that she always believed her husband could not have k(...)

Allied Irish Banks: “AIB has a long history of being bailed out by taxpayers, of poor corporate culture, of excessive remuneration, and of overcharging customers.” Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Selling AIB: Who should own it, and where should the sale profits go?

The Government strategy for privatising AIB has focused solely on the art of the deal – the price, how much to sell, and when to sell our 99 per cent.(...)

A frame grab from a surveillance video released by the New York Police Department shows an undercover New York City police officer arresting former professional tennis payer James Blake in New York. Blake, who was in front of a hotel waiting to attend the US Open, was misidentified by police as a suspect in a credit card fraud scheme. Photograph: EPA/NYPD
History of complaints against officer in James Blake arrest
  • US
  • September 12, 2015, 15:08

In 2012, a Queens man said officer James Frascatore pulled him over for a broken tail light, opened his car door and punched him three times in the mo(...)

Setanta Sports Australia was founded in 2005 as a pub-only service, migrating to a consumer platform two years later.
Setanta Sports Australia set to be sold to Al Jazeera

The Irish company that owns Setanta Sports Australia has reached an agreement to sell it to the beIN Media Group, a subsidiary of the Qatari state-(...)

Minister for Health James Reilly with Dr Eilish Hardiman, chief executive of the Children’s Hospital Group Board. Photograph: Caroline Quinn/PA Wire
Children’s hospital management confident of planning permission
  • Health
  • February 13, 2014, 17:07

Six “world class” architectural firms competing to design the new national children’s hospital in Dublin will be named next week. The wi(...)

Wommera in South Australia has been closed to the public since 1947, when it was used for Cold War rocket and nuclear tests by Britain, Australia and the US. Image: Google Maps
Australia eases access to world’s biggest weapon range to allow mining

Australia will ease access restrictions on the world’s largest weapons test range in the remote outback - an area larger than England - to unlock an e(...)