Ben Dunne said: “I wouldn’t have it on my conscience to pay someone €203 a week and ask them to try to live on it.”

He's tailored for movie stars, sports stars and presidents - now he's measuring up a new Cork store for fit-out.

Businessman Ben Dunne says he wants to stop selling high-sugar soft drinks from the vending machines at his gyms.

Many of the great stars of the 1980s are disappearing. Last week alone, we bade goodbye to businessman Feargal Quinn and to actor Ken Kercheval, the man who played the long suffering rival of JR Ewing, Cliff Barnes, on the TV soap, Dallas.

Ireland has just lost one of its more unique public figures with the passing of Feargal Quinn at the age of 82.

The business world is paying tributes to Superquinn founder Feargal Quinn, who has died aged 82.

Mr Quinn served as a Senator from 1993 to 2016.

Last Sunday morning, I boarded an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to New York’s JFK airport.

We had a back-to-the-future event last Tuesday when Michael Lowry emerged from a building claiming vindication and victimhood. He had just been convicted of tax offences, escaped jail and declared that he had been hounded and vilified.

One of the most promising ministers in 1994, Michael Lowry was Fine Gael’s great hope. A series of findings against him over the years continued with yesterday’s conviction. So how is he one of the richest TDs and still topping polls in Tipp, asks Michael Clifford

This morning's headlines:

An Taisce has said that there are already too many hotels in Dublin in a submission opposing planning permission for an eight-storey hotel.

The protest against South Africa’s apartheid regime was one of the most compelling stories of 1985. Workers were arrested during the strike outside Dunnes on Henry St, Dublin, says Michael Clifford.

Businessman Ben Dunne expects his expanding gym business to generate revenues of over €10.3m in its current financial year.

Prominent Cork businessman Richard Neville has died.

Retail giant Dunnes Stores has been accused of “giving two fingers to the people of Cork”, after apparently ignoring the Lord Mayor’s request for a meeting to discuss the closure of one of its largest city stores.

Gym owner Ben Dunne yesterday announced a major expansion of his gyms business outside Dublin as he aims to double revenue and boost operating profits in the next four years.

From laying down the roots for dairy groups to establishing credit unions, it’s time to also honour the pioneers who helped this island to flourish, writes Kyran Fitzgerald. 

Hundreds of people queued to pay their respects as Christy O’Connor Jnr left his beloved Knocknacarra for the final time yesterday evening.

Twenty years after it hit national headlines, set political and business shock waves and repercussions that saw Ministerial resignations, tribunals and indirectly the demise of a serving Taoiseach, Cork City’s Horgan’s Quay site is back up for grab, openly this time, by tender.

Charles J Haughey was born 90 years ago tomorrow. Biographer Ryle Dwyer examines his political legacy and the scandal that followed him

The gym business operated by Ben Dunne generated operating profits of €1.5m last year. In an interview, Mr Dunne said yesterday that his gym business had its two best months of growth in March and April in the past five years.

When Ben Dunne opened his first store on St. Patrick Street Cork, he ensured many items, in particular children’s clothing was brought within affordable reach of many people.

RTÉ drama, Charlie, about the political career of Charles Haughey, has rewritten history with dramatic licence by showing the former taoiseach resigning not so much because of revelations over the phone-tapping scandal of a decade earlier but because of a threat that the full truth of his involvement in the 1970 arms crisis would be made public, suggests Caroline O'Doherty.

SATURDAY

Irish Water’s booklet dropped into my letterbox this week. While I accept that water charges are necessary, I, like many others, have serious misgivings about certain important aspects of Irish Water’s plans. Because it is a State-owned company, this letter is also addressed to our public representatives.

"The street is devastated, a legend has passed on."

The rich just got richer, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List, which indicates that the total wealth of the country’s richest 250 people increased by just under €3bn last year.

Ben Dunne is expecting a "hot shower" dividend for his gym business as a result of the Government’s pending household water charge.

The ransom paid to release Ben Dunne from IRA kidnappers in 1981 had nothing to do with then taoiseach Charles Haughey, the businessman has claimed.

In the last 30 years we’ve had a plethora of tribunals, commissions, investigations and reports, so many in fact it is hard to understand why we do not live in a perfect society.

I CAN remember when transparency was a political cliché.

I am becoming tired of the well-worn cliché: “To get the top talent, we have to offer top salaries”.

Despite all the talk of and unity, there is still one piece of rapprochement outstanding from the Mandela era.

LAST November on this page I compared independent TD (and former Fine Gael minister) Michael Lowry to Mario Balotelli, the petulant bad-boy of European football who once pulled up his shirt to reveal a t-shirt bearing the legend “why always me?”

Former Government minister Michael Lowry has accused tax collectors of being heavy-handed and intimidating during a raid on his home.

The leaking of details about a raid on the home of tax cheat Michael Lowry has been criticised by his solicitor, who said it is part of a 20-year campaign to damage the politician.

For the second time in two years, disgraced former minister Michael Lowry is facing a legal battle with his key financial adviser.

Looking for somewhere novel to bring your dad this father’s day? Pól Ó Conghaile has 10 great suggestions to suit all budgets.

IF he was so minded, Lance Armstrong could have looked to these shores for the model confession.

The Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo), the current ethics watchdog, has no teeth, so it is not able to bite.