Brian Cowen: no intention to mislead the Irish public‘We were simply trying to get as full a picture as we could’Wed Jul 08 2015 - 22:13
Five things we learned from Cowen’s time as taoiseach‘There were elements within the EU institutions who were providing inspired leak ’Wed Jul 08 2015 - 13:27
Banking Inquiry: Cowen evidence details sleepwalk into crisisFormer minister for finance’s failure to respond earlier to Anglo worries proved costlyWed Jul 08 2015 - 12:32
Banking Inquiry: Ex-regulator urges action over white-collar crimeMatthew Elderfield suggests review might be done by former attorney general or judgeWed Jul 08 2015 - 01:02
Denis O’Brien’s Algarve resort reported for saleLocal publication says two bids have been made for €220m Quinta do Lago propertyWed Jul 08 2015 - 01:00
€500,000 plan eases concerns of Clerys concession holdersGroup had sought to block appointment of KPMG liquidators due to conflict of interestSat Jul 04 2015 - 01:00
Cowen comes out swinging to defend time as minister for financeUnlike Charlie McCreevy, ex-taoiseach accepts mistakes were made on his watchFri Jul 03 2015 - 01:03
FF did ‘right thing’, Brian Cowen tells inquiryParty paid ‘heavy price’ for crash, former taoiseach tells Oireachtas banking inquiryFri Jul 03 2015 - 01:00
Brian Cowen told NTMA to deposit money with Irish banksOfficial told Cowen NTMA needed ‘written instruction’ as its policy was not to lodge with AngloFri Jul 03 2015 - 01:00
Banking inquiry summons two more former Anglo executivesWillie McAteer and Peter Fitzgerald had sought to be excused from questioningThu Jul 02 2015 - 17:59
Brian Cowen at the banking inquiry: five things we learnedTake-home points from the former taoiseach’s first appearance before the committeeThu Jul 02 2015 - 15:29
Banking Inquiry warns McCreevy for not answering questionEx-minister threatened with criminal sanction over stance on property bubble queryThu Jul 02 2015 - 01:00
Digicel flotation depends on O’Brien selling growth storyDebt is held in dollars but Digital’s revenues are collected in local currencies, most of which have dropped against the dollar in recent yearsWed Jul 01 2015 - 02:00
Banking inquiry summons three ex-Anglo executivesCommittee tells former chairman Seán FitzPatrick he must appear before itTue Jun 30 2015 - 21:12
Court bid to block KPMG role in ClerysConcession holders considering High Court move to oppose appointment of liquidatorsTue Jun 30 2015 - 01:00
Markets world wide wobble at potential GrexitIseq index falls by 2.5 per cent but full effect of debt crisis likely to come laterTue Jun 30 2015 - 01:00
VHI given extra time to comply with EU rulingThe State-owned insurer must make switch to regulated non-life insurer by July 31stTue Jun 30 2015 - 01:00
Losses at Clerys down €2m in year before liquidationAccounts show company loss of €1.1m in the year to end of January 2015Mon Jun 29 2015 - 02:00
Fitzpatrick New York hotels set for $2m upgradeIrish hotelier plans refurbishment programme for the two US premisesMon Jun 29 2015 - 01:00
Some €1bn in lost tax due to reliefs, Noonan reportsMinister says €574m in 2012 and €450m in 2013 lost through property reliefsMon Jun 29 2015 - 00:00
Denis O’Brien received $1.1bn in Digicel dividends over three yearsBusinessman had quarterly payout of $10m plus $950m in special dividendsSat Jun 27 2015 - 01:00
Digicel’s risks include taxes, earthquakes and ‘customer churn’Near-300-page IPO registration document includes 29 pages of potential problemsSat Jun 27 2015 - 01:00
Digicel flotation to raise hundreds of millions of dollarsDenis O’Brien received $1.1bn in dividends from mobile phone business over three yearsSat Jun 27 2015 - 01:00
Denis O’Brien’s Digicel plans IPO in New YorkCompany has just filed documents with US markets regulatorFri Jun 26 2015 - 18:06
Honohan announced bailout talks over ‘bank run’ fearInquiry told Central Bank chief was speaking to ‘middle Ireland’ on radioFri Jun 26 2015 - 01:00
Patrick Honohan: Cost of bust ‘well over €100bn and growing’Figures relating to Irish banking and economic crash still have power to shockFri Jun 26 2015 - 01:00
Honohan defends announcing bailout on Morning Ireland‘I knew the government wouldn’t be happy but I didn’t realise they’d be so unhappy’Thu Jun 25 2015 - 17:10
The NTMA, the bondholders and the Johnny Logan working groupAnalysis: ‘Discreet’ inquiries made in September 2008 about IMF bailoutThu Jun 25 2015 - 09:28
Cardiff would have liked ‘more notice’ over Honohan interviewPatrick Honohan said Ireland was in talks with the EU/IMF as Government denied itWed Jun 24 2015 - 16:56
Seven lenders in breach of mortgage arrears codeCentral Bank thought to be particularly concerned about breaches of fair process, which it views as essence of code of conductWed Jun 24 2015 - 16:25
Employment tribunal valuable for exposing corporate worldPhilip Smith case shone uncomfortable light on workings of Ireland’s biggest insurerWed Jun 24 2015 - 02:00
Michael Fingleton directed to appear at banking inquiryFormer INBS chief to appear on September 2ndTue Jun 23 2015 - 12:46
Cantillon: Ireland Funds passes $500m markAmbitious target set for next 10 years of fundraisingTue Jun 23 2015 - 01:00
Analysis: RSA taken aback at record €1.25m tribunal awardEAT decision to award €1.25m leaves RSA Insurance reelingTue Jun 23 2015 - 01:00
Bars and restaurants on menu as Danu investors expand interestsPartnership that began with Setanta and Italia ’90 has a varied portfolioMon Jun 22 2015 - 01:00
Setanta Sports founders open Smith & Wollensky in LondonIrish trio invest €10 million in first European franchise of famed New York steakhouseSat Jun 20 2015 - 02:00
Owner of Clerys building made near €5m profit in 18 monthsLiquidated OCS Operations Ltd which ran store made loss of just over €2m in same periodSat Jun 20 2015 - 01:00
Evidence on guarantee terms conflicts with that of banksAnalysis: Cowen settled on guarantee before meeting - CardiffFri Jun 19 2015 - 09:44
Service station operator Applegreen raises €91.7m in IPOCompany began trading in Dublin and London on FridayFri Jun 19 2015 - 08:54
Denis O’Brien seeking to sell his Gulfstream jet for €60mState-of-the-art jet, which has a small tricolour on its tail fin, can sleep up to six ‘comfortably’Fri Jun 19 2015 - 06:00
Brian Cowen decision on guarantee already made, inquiry hearsKevin Cardiff says he is still not sure his position on the night was the ‘right’ oneFri Jun 19 2015 - 01:00
Ireland was pushed into €67.5 billion bailout, says Kevin CardiffFormer secretary general at Department of Finance tells banking inquiry of leaksFri Jun 19 2015 - 01:00
Kevin Cardiff: leading figures pushed for guaranteeFormer finance minister Charlie McCreevey said a political statement was needed, Cardiff saidThu Jun 18 2015 - 14:27
Ireland was ‘pushed quite hard’ into bailout, says Cardiff‘It was too dangerous to contemplate liquidating Anglo,’ former finance official saysThu Jun 18 2015 - 09:39
‘Something very wrong’ about transactions at ClerysGordon Brothers had split the Clerys business into two parts – a property company which owns the building and an operating entity which ran the storeWed Jun 17 2015 - 14:26
Clerys staff to get statutory redundancy, liquidators sayProtest in support of workers held outside Dublin store as KPMG meets union officialsTue Jun 16 2015 - 15:05
Clerys concession holders owed up to €3mAbout 50 companies seek May takings and release of stockTue Jun 16 2015 - 01:00
Concessionaires tell of shock at closure as they try to get their stock released‘It was our impression that it would be sold as a going concern, there was no indication the store was going to close’Tue Jun 16 2015 - 01:00
UK can’t have its EU ‘cake and eat it’Commissioner Jonathan Hill says there has yet to be a debate about the alternative to EU membershipMon Jun 15 2015 - 17:22
