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A 51-year-old businessman who pleaded guilty to causing an obstruction by climbing on top of an oil tanker at Whitegate Refinery in Co Cork during the fuel protests has received a two-month suspended prison sentence and a €1,500 fine. Midleton District Court heard that Ivor Sweeney spent one hour and 15 minutes on top of

Some 3,534 people were fined for possessing and using vapes under the enhanced enforcement framework between September and December 2025. 366 of these offenders were caught with etomidate e-vaporisers, known as Kpods, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Health Sciences Authority (HSA) on Thursday (Jan 29). Since last September, 211 Kpod users and 57

Nine contractors have been issued a total of £950,000 in penalties for employing illegal workers, according to the latest government quarterly update. The firms were named in a Home Office list of companies penalised for employing people with no right to work in the UK… The post Nine firms fined almost £1m for employing illegal

Three major retailers have paid penalties for allegedly making false and misleading representations about their Black Friday sales. Each retailer paid a penalty of $19,800 after the ACCC issued them with one infringement notice each. This follows an ACCC sweep of dozens of sales advertisements for last year's Black Friday and post-Christmas sales events which

The death of a 47-year-old worker on a bridge project in North Carolina was a “preventable fatality,” and the construction company that employed him faces proposed penalties of $40,000, according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The diver was part of a four-man dive team employed by Maryland-based Coastal Gunite Construction Company to