Thumbs up: Return of the feastIn truth, we didn't even notice it had gone, but now the Mint Feast is back. HB Ice Cream last week relaunched what it has claimed was one of the Republic's favourite ice creams of the last decade after it topped an online poll on its site.

Apparently the Mint Feast was to Irish children of the 1990s what the Loop-the-Loop or the Wibbly Wobbly Wonder were to children of the 1970s, and between 1990 and 1994, when it was dropped presumably because of poor sales.

Thumbs down: Betting on the boxCasinos, betting shops and online gambling sites will soon be able to advertise on British television. The commercials must, however, comply with a code which aims to ensure they are "socially responsible" which means the ads will not be able to imply that gambling can be a solution to financial difficulties.

Thmbs up: Top of the shopsMarks & Spencer was the most popular department store in the EU last year and had sales in excess of 7 billion, according to market analysts Mintel.

The Spanish-based retailing giant El Corte Inglés finished in second place. Debenhams and the House of Fraser, which both have operations in Ireland, also finished in the European top 10.

Thumbs down: Bogus Bond carA TV ad for the Ford Focus has been rapped on the knuckles for wrongly implying it appeared in Casino Royale. The ad for the Ford Focus Zetec Climate included footage from the latest James Bond movie and two viewers with a lot of time on their hands complained that the advertisement therefore implied the car was used in the movie. In fact it was the Ford Mondeo that starred in the film, not the Zetec Climate.

The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld the complaints and found the commercial in breach of the advertising code.