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Brendan O’Regan, who was catering comptroller at Shannon Airport and a onetime chairman of Bord Fáilte
The Irish ‘father of duty free’ and saviour of Shannon

It may now be a global $70 billion business, but it has its origins in the mind of one Clare man. And like many innovations, the concept of duty free,(...)

Lewis Hamilton: set to earn close to £2 million a race until the end of 2020. Photograph: Charles Coates/Getty Images
Formula One: Lewis Hamilton signs £40m deal with Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton refused to rule out that championship rivals Ferrari attempted to lure him away from Mercedes. Hamilton put an end to more than seven (...)

Brian Heffernan receives his award as best individual volunteer from the award sponsor Conor Foley of IIBN, with nominator Guy Bolongaro (left)
Man who upcycles furniture for Irish in London wins award

A man who upcycles furniture for Irish people in London, a care in the community group that visits vulnerable and housebound members of the Irish comm(...)

Former football coach Barry Bennell (62) has served three prison sentences totalling 15 years in England and the United States since 1994. Photograph: PA/PA Wire
Child sex abuse scandal: Bennell charged with eight counts of assault

The former football coach Barry Bennell has been charged with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy under the age of 14, the British Crown P(...)

File photograph of soccer coach Barry Bennell. Bennell has been taken to hospital in England after police responded to a ‘fear for welfare incident’. File photograph: PA Wire
Manchester police launch soccer child abuse inquiry
  • UK
  • November 28, 2016

England’s third largest police force has launched an inquiry into allegations of historical child sex abuse in youth soccer, after recent media report(...)