The Hoops in new move on €10m stadium - Shamrock Rovers is locked in advanced talks with a privately-owned financial company in a bid to kick-start its long-stalled ambition to build a €10m stadium in Tallaght, reports the Irish Independent. The League of Ireland football club has already invested €4.2m in constructing a half-built stadium that has not seen any additional construction in two years. It is still €6m short of what it needs to complete the stadium and ancillary facilities such as a car park, bar and dining areas. Who exactly Rovers is in talks with is not known and the club itself was unavailable to comment yesterday. However, it is known that Rovers is currently thrashing out a contract which will allow them eventually buy back over time the completed stadium from their new financial partner.
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Telecoms operators to face new regulations - Telecoms firms will face new regulations in the autumn designed to increase consumer protection and force operators to provide accurate bills to users, writes the Irish Times.
Firms that breach the regulations could be brought to court or lose their authority to operate in Ireland, the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) confirmed yesterday. ComReg said the changes to the regulations governing telecoms firms were being introduced because of several cases of overcharging by some of the biggest mobile and fixed operators.
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C&C unlikely to bid for Glenmorangie - C&C is unlikely to make a play for Scottish whisky maker Glenmorangie which has come on the market with a £220m sterling plus price tag, says the Irish Examiner. Sources close to C&C indicated yesterday the Irish company will not bid for the Scottish distiller despite the potential synergies and distribution expansion for its Irish whisky brand Tullamore Dew such an acquisition would give C&C. Glenmorangie, the world's sixth- biggest whisky maker, is in talks with possible buyers after putting itself up for sale.
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Ahern calls for 3G safeguards - Mobile operators need to come up with ways to protect minors from the inappropriate use of 3G phones, according to the Minister for Communications writes Electricnews.net. Minister Dermot Ahern has asked mobile operators to send him their proposals on the safeguards they will be imposing to protect children from accessing offensive content via 3G phones. Third-generation phones are due to be launched in the Irish market by the end of 2004.
