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Sports Direct International has said it will spend £10 million (€14m) increasing workers’ salaries as it seeks to end a dispute over its treatment of employees.

In recent years, there hasn’t been much to like about the EU, with its low growth, high unemployment, political squabbles, xenophobia, stifling bureaucracy, and constant threats of a breakup.

Champagne sales are set for a record year, driven by solid demand from export markets, favourable currencies and stabilising sales in France, the fizzy drink’s home market.

For steam enthusiasts, 2016 promises to be the most exciting year for a decade as the most famous locomotive in the world returns to the railway.

Mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy show partial recovery

Bill Cosby’s lawyer has claimed that the sexual assault case against the comedian was politically motivated, brought by a newly-elected district attorney to make good on a campaign pledge.

A prominent Labour Party legislator known for his work exposing child sex abuse in his district has been suspended by the party for allegedly sending sexually explicit texts to a teenage girl.

New Year’s resolutions? Don’t believe in them, writes Ronan O’Gara

A UN plan to suspend Syria’s nearly five-year-old civil war calls for listing which militant groups may be fought despite an eventual ceasefire, one of the toughest issues vexing diplomats trying to end the conflict.

A man has appeared in court accused of leaving a crude home-made bomb in a shopping centre. David Rutherford, 24, of Barry Avenue, Preston, was remanded into custody for 14 days after a brief appearance at Preston Magistrates’ Court.

Winter storms Desmond, Eva, and Frank have wreaked havoc on golf courses throughout Ireland but nowhere more aggressively than at the famed Killarney Golf & Fishing Club in Kerry.

Microsoft will begin warning users of its consumer services including Outlook.com email when the company suspects that a government has been trying to hack into their accounts.

Greater equality for players — not just silverware — is what drives Cork camogie boss Paudie Murray, who tells Eoghan Cormican why things have got to change

Ian Maguire will make his first senior football appearance for Cork in almost a year in Sunday’s McGrath Cup opener against Limerick in Mallow (2pm).

Odds-on favourite Up For Review romped to an impressive win in the Grade 2 Dorans Pride Novice Hurdle, rescheduled from Limerick on Tuesday, in Punchestown yesterday.

Louis van Gaal believes 2015 should largely be regarded as “a very good year” for Manchester United despite their current woes.

Cristiano Ronaldo believes he was “born to be the best” and accepts his own vanity and arrogance have been the driving force behind his success.

Vincent Kompany will undergo thorough assessment as Manchester City bid to get to the bottom of their captain’s recurring calf problems but manager Manuel Pellegrini says the club will not be entering the transfer market this month.

This weekend, C&S UCC Demons will bid to bounce back from their shock, pre-Christmas defeat to DCU Saints with a double header on the road, against Killester and Moycullen.

Today’s card at Fairyhouse doesn’t look the easiest for punters to get the new year off to a positive start, but Sambremont showed more last time than in previous efforts over fences and hurdles in this country, and can take the beginners’ chase for Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh.

“Don’t let me get any notions,” said Lizzie Lee to her husband Paul on the drive back to Cork the day after the European Cross Country Championships.

Forget the hundreds of homes and businesses across the country which have been ruined because of the recent flooding.

Two leading liberal Fine Gael ministers have committed to addressing abortion in 2016 — with or without the Labour Party in government.

Wesley Burrows, the creator of RTÉ’s long-running series Glenroe, has died.

Wedding bells rang in the new year for two of the GAA’s fiercest sporting rivals — both Seán Óg Ó hAilpín and Paul Galvin will be tackling 2016 as married men.

Sixteen years ago, Glenn Gannon was homeless and alone, sleeping rough on the streets of Dublin, when a kindhearted stranger gave him the inspiration he needed to turn his life around.

The next government will inherit “a crisis of enormous proportions” in the health services, doctors have warned.

Homeowners and businesses across Cork were yesterday recovering from Storm Frank’s fallout — and bracing themselves for further hardship.

Met Éireann last night issued a yellow rainfall warning for Cork and Kerry, saying rain was expected today and overnight, but should turn more showery during Saturday morning.

Gardaí have made a public appeal for help in piecing together the latest fatal gangland attack in Dublin.

The Social Democrats are targeting at least seven seats in the general election and are open to entering government with any rival party — provided it is not simply offered “crumbs from the table”.

Table toppers Clonmel host Clanwilliam in a huge Munster Junior League Division 1 derby on Sunday.

Following a five-day turnaround from their morale-boosting Guinness Pro12 victory over Munster at Thomond Park, head coach Leo Cullen has made wholesale changes to his starting line-up for Leinster’s latest interprovincial clash with Connacht at the RDS this evening (5pm kick-off).

Connacht’s Matt Healy has signed a two-year contract extension that will see him play with the province until at least the summer of 2018.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has issued a come-and-get-me plea to Independent election candidates, saying he would take them “seriously” and is “prepared” to join forces as part of an alternative coalition after the general election.

The only change required under the eighth amendment is to remove the suicidal clause and ‘correct’ the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Act which failed miserably to reflect the overriding view at the Oireachtas Hearings that abortion is never a treatment for suicidal ideation.

To all those big-hearted people in Cork

EUROPEAN courts have been a force for good in this society.

JUST as a person whose glass is premanently half empty can drain the sunshine out of a room, just as they can turn a happy moment into one of doubt and anxiety, an optimistic, sunny person — and few of us have any choice about which we are — can lift those around them and find the silver lining in even the darkest, gloomiest cloud. Optimism and pessimism can be infective.

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For years, Co Clare dweller, Arlene Harris has been tormented by speed limits on the rural roads near where she lives. They don’t make sense, she says

Having lunch with a hologram of your mother, taking a virtual reality trip to your next holiday destination, and driverless cars, are just some the innovations predicted for the near future, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

The Dunnes Stores strike began on July 19, 1984.

The Government was advised 30 years ago that Aids should not be used in the State’s defence of Ireland’s laws which made homosexuality illegal.

The relocation of tonight’s one-off episode to 19th century London was a bold move for the show’s creators, writes Gemma Dunn

RTÉ’s new Easter Rising drama, Rebellion, has three of the most talented actresses of their generation, writes Ed Power

From the high of the marriage referendum to domestic and foreign threats, and more Garda controversies, it’s been an extraordinary year for justice and law, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Nina L Khrushcheva says the Russian president has an unlikely bedfellow in Donald Trump, whose bullying style from the stump is similar to his own

A young man has been rescued from the flooded River Shannon in Castleconnell, Co Limerick.

Even the recent bad spell of weather couldn't dampen spirits in Dublin last night as thousands celebrated 2016 by dancing in the streets.

Latest: Clare County Council says it expects water levels on the Lower River Shannon at Springfield to increase this evening having dropped by 200mm during Thursday.

Celtic manager Ronny Deila has admitted discussing a move for Aiden McGeady but fears that the wages of the Everton man would smash Celtic's salary structure.

Munich train stations have reopened and trains are running on New Year's Day, but a terror warning about extremists from the so-called 'Islamic State' group intending to blow themselves in the city remains in place.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said he is ready for war if provoked by "invasive" outsiders, but avoided past threats centring on the country's nuclear weapons and long-range missile ambitions.

A man in his 20s has been rescued after falling onto railway tracks in Phibsborough in Dublin in the early hours of this morning.

Around 124,000 workers are expected to benefit from the new National Minimum Wage rate which comes into effect today.