Angie and Azzedine Benhaffaf, parents of Irish born conjoined twins, are besieged by the amount of support public has extended.

An offer of $110,000 to pose in a British tabloid was refused by the parents of the twins.

The support was more after people came to know that the conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein are not going to pose for money. They have received a far greater level of aid from the Irish public.

As has been shared by the owner Associated British Foods, popular clothing chain Primark has continued to perform strongly, recording a sales growth of 8% over the past six months.

Like-for-like sales, which excluded the impact of new stores, were mainly boosted by "exceptionally strong performance" across the company's 14 Spanish outlets. Overall, total sales were also quite strong, after the opening of as many as 5 new stores across UK, Germany, Portugal and Belgium.

Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams has declared that his wife is being treated for cancer.

The couple was taken back when she was diagnosed with cancer a month ago.

The announcement was made at a party meeting where he was chosen as the representative to stand in the approaching Westminster elections.

He was thankful to the medical staff that looked after his wife Colette during, and post, her surgery.

"Now she is fine and recuperating after her operation last Thursday", he said.

£8m (€9m) investment was confirmed by Ryanair for a new aircraft maintenance facility at Glasgow Prestwick Airport. A major expansion is planned following the announcement made yesterday regarding new routes and the base that is the biggest maintenance base.

A planned four-hour strike by air traffic controllers in Ireland on Wednesday is all set to disrupt the travel plans of more than 20,000 airline passengers as they will face delays and cancellations.

A walk out by air traffic controllers between 2pm and 6pm will result into the cancellation of around 150 flights at Cork, Shannon and Dublin airports.

As has been recently announced by the company, Wolseley has agreed to divest 100% of its stake in Wolseley Ireland Holdings Limited to WIBHM, which is a private investor backed firm, for a total of 23.8 Million Pounds. WIHL is inclusive of the largest plumbers' merchant in the entire Republic of Ireland, Heatmerchants, which is also designated as the largest distributor of oil heating equipment across the country.

During the month of December, Irish budget carrier Ryanair witnessed a 12% growth in Traffic as travelers continued to make the most of the firm's low fares over the Holiday season.

As many as 4.9 million passengers were flown by the company over the month, as compared to the figure of 4.37 million passengers recorded for December 2008. Load factor, which is the measure of how full the airplanes are, jumped by 2 percentage points to 82%.

Reports have confirmed that its portfolio of GSM base station and switching products have been sold by ADC Telecommunications Inc. to the Irish mobile network operator, Altobridge.

The deal was announced on Thursday, and apart from the fact that about 70 of ADC's employees will be taken in by Altobridge, no other terms have been disclosed.

A website for sex education has been launched by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA).

The web address "b4udecide. ie" provides education and gives tips to ados to deal with their queries related to underage sex. It is a website containing all the information regarding sex and relationships.

An Post last night announced that it is looking to axe cut as many as 1,375 jobs between 2010 and 2012, which would substantially cut down its current workforce of nearly 10,000 people.

As confirmed by the company, the cut will be applicable to all levels across all departments, including headquarters, collection, retail and processing, and although the terms have not been shard yet, the cuts will be on voluntary basis.

TalkTalk, UK's giant telecommunication and broadband service provider, has announced that it will be hiring as many as 60 new employees for its customer service and sales center placed in Waterford. The center already boasts an employee base of 700 people.

As has been confirmed by the company, 50 of the total jobs will be full-time and the remaining 10 would be part-time. Set up in 1998, the company's Waterford center offers customer support for customers of TalkTak and AOL across UK.

National Irish Bank yesterday shared plans of cutting almost a quarter of its current workforce of 634 and shutting down as many as 25 branches, over the coming 18 months. Most of the branches to be closed will be in the rural towns.

The parent bank, Danske Bank, however, will remain "committed to the Irish market", as has been confirmed by NIB. NIB and Northern Bank were acquired by Danske in 2005 in a 1.4 Billion Euros deal.

In a deal which has reportedly cost Bord Gais over a whopping 500 Million Euros, the firm has confirmed that it has purchased the county's second largest windfarm operator, SWS Natural Resources. The deal has been designated as the third largest merger and acquisition for the year.

The development has been welcomed by the Anglo Irish Bank, a nationalized bank which owned 17% of the business, as well as a group of investors who had a 35% stake in it.

Monthly report for October submitted by the Irish Life & Permanent revealed that for the month, house prices across Ireland fell most in about 6 months, taking the property slump even further. The nation's current fall in property prices has been the worst in over 6 years.

Compared to the previous month, house prices fell by 1.8% in October to 228,347 Euros, the most since April. Compared to last year as well, the prices recorded a 13.9% drop.

Irish third generation mobile phone operator, 3, has become the market leader when it comes to mobile broadband after it announced that it had signed up a huge number, which exceeds 175,000, of mobile broadband users in Ireland and this announcement has brought the company to the second place right behind the topper in the broadband market, Eircom.