Tony O’Reilly, now Sir Anthony O’Reilly, was a legendary rugby player (six tries in ten test matches for the British Lions) and businessman, making his name as boss of Kerrygold butter company the Irish Dairy Board and going on to …
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French president Nicolas Sarkozy, currently gadding around the Middle East trying to broker a cease fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, has banned prime time advertising on state-owned French TV channels France 2 and France 3 from tonight, a move …
Pepsi has terminated its 10-year sponsorship deal with footballer David Beckham, following on the heels of Gillette’s decision to end its relationship with the most over-hyped footballer on the planet.
It’s increasingly looking as though Becks’ decision to move to America and …
Those Russians are at it again, cutting off gas supplies to its neighbour the Ukraine and jeopardising supplies to Western Europe, including the UK.
Ukraine says it’s paid the £2bn it owes Gazprom, the state-controlled Russian gas producer, Gazprom’s Alexei Miller, in …
Well let’s get it over with, this was the big one of 2008, bigger even than Barack Obama’s victory.
The crisis began with American sub-prime mortgages (mortgages offered to people who couldn’t keep up the payments) but that was a consequence …
