Mr McLoughlin ran Dubai Duty Free from 1983 until he retired earlier this year, a span of more than 40 years.

Friday's front pages

John Fahy described driving home during the worst of the storm, which hit southern Spain on Tuesday.

Focus Ireland is encouraging people who are affected by the housing crisis to register to vote as soon as possible before the election.

His former colleague Bryan Dobson paid tribute to him as ‘a giant of public service broadcasting’.

Pedro Sanchez thanked the people of Ireland for their solidarity and kindness.

Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots has notified the First Minister and deputy First Minister that the democratic consent process has begun.

Gardaí confirmed that the man, who was in his 80s, was taken from the residence at Termon.

That is according to an auditor’s report lodged on behalf of the operator of the luxury resort, Tizzard Holdings Unlimited Company with the Companies Office.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said passing the bill at the end of the Dáil term would ‘send a powerful message’

Skeletons, pirates and a marquee of monsters await those in search of sweets.

A tribunal was wrong in determining that a charity shop building should be subject to commercial property rates, a High Court judge has ruled

A commanding officer of the peacekeeping battalion said that amid the escalating conflict in Lebanon, troops ‘will look after each other’.

Alan Caffrey said a man he did not know phoned him and asked if his brother Dean, the accused man, had "answers to questions" four days after drug dealer Sean McCarthy had last been seen

Taoiseach Simon Harris paid tribute to him as “a trusted name who was welcomed into homes across the country throughout his long career”.

A woman was mistakenly "dragged into" joining a “full-on” attack on a mugging victim after a phone snatch in Dublin, a judge was told

The case against the former managing director of Bank of Ireland Private Bank “boils down to dishonesty”, prosecuting counsel has told the court

The court heard that Armstrong had been released from the custodial portion of that sentence 18 months before this offence, and Judge Patricia Ryan immediately reactivated the suspended sentence.

Giving his decision on Thursday, Mr Justice Holland said the plaintiffs’ legal documents were “awash in meaningless conspiracy theories”.

The Finance Bill will be passed before an election is called.