O'Brien and Desmond to challenge role of McDowellLEGAL CHALLENGE: TWO BILLIONAIRE businessmen have told the Moriarty tribunal they are to take judicial review proceedings in…Wed Oct 27 2010 - 01:00
Lowry says he cannot afford lawyersLEGAL FEES: INDEPENDENT TD Michael Lowry said he could no longer afford to pay for legal and professional assistance in his …Wed Oct 27 2010 - 01:00
State warns tribunal of legal action on findingsTHE STATE will seek to overturn in the courts any negative preliminary findings against it by the Moriarty tribunal, lawyers …Wed Oct 27 2010 - 01:00
Witness denies meeting officialsA Danish consultant has told the Moriarty tribunal today he believes a meeting described in earlier evidence by senior Irish …Wed Oct 27 2010 - 01:00
Esat submitted best application for licence competition, says consultantEXPERT'S TESTIMONY: A DANISH expert who was lead consultant to the 1995 mobile phone licence competition has told the Moriarty…Wed Oct 27 2010 - 01:00
Moriarty engages McDowellLawyers for Denis O'Brien and Dermot Desmond are to seek a judicial review of the decision by the Moriarty tribunal to hire former…Tue Oct 26 2010 - 01:00
Creditors meeting: Drumm to hold gathering in USFORMER CHIEF executive of Anglo Irish Bank David Drumm has called a creditors meeting in Boston as part of his US bankruptcy …Fri Oct 22 2010 - 01:00
Journalist wants to meet application for apology 'head on'JOURNALIST SAM Smyth is to meet “head on” an application from politician Michael Lowry that the court order him to apologise, …Fri Oct 22 2010 - 01:00
Smyth to fight Lowry applicationJournalist Sam Smyth has pledged to meet ‘head-on’ an application from Independent TD Michael Lowry that he be ordered apologise…Thu Oct 21 2010 - 01:00
Telecoms consultant to give evidence at tribunalTHE MORIARTY tribunal is to sit next week to hear evidence that will be crucial to its findings on the 1995 mobile phone licence…Wed Oct 20 2010 - 01:00
Extend time to reduce deficitDAVID BEGG: REDUCING THE deficit to 3 per cent by 2014 cannot be achieved without permanent damage to the fabric of society, …Tue Oct 19 2010 - 01:00
Income tax rates look set to riseFEARGAL O'ROURKE: THE HOLLOWING out of the income tax system in the years after 2001 is now coming back to bite us, said Feargal…Tue Oct 19 2010 - 01:00
Cuts in spending are only optionWILLIAM SLATTERY: CUTBACKS IN expenditure were the only option for dealing with the deficit, said the managing director of State…Tue Oct 19 2010 - 01:00
Anglo takes action against former bank directorANGLO IRISH Bank has instituted proceedings against its former head of Irish operations, Tom Browne.Sat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00
Glass bottle site 'should not go cheap'THE IRISH Glass Bottle site in Ringsend, Dublin, should not be sold to “some asset stripper” who would buy it on the cheap, the…Sat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00
Revenue told of One51 patent useTHE USE of a patent on paint tin lids by Phillip Lynch’s One51 has been brought to the attention of the Revenue Commissioners…Fri Oct 15 2010 - 01:00
We built our businesses and we will do so again, insists ShovlinANALYSIS: Developer says low thresholds on unpaid loans revealed banks’ desire to attain business, writes COLM KEENAFri Oct 15 2010 - 01:00
Prospect of IMF role described as 'scary'ESRI CONFERENCE: THE IDEA of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) imposing its will on Ireland was “scary”, a UCD economist…Wed Oct 13 2010 - 01:00
Public money controlled by Siptu officials funded 31 tripsOVERSEAS TRAVEL: PUBLIC MONEY controlled by two senior Siptu officials was used to pay for at least 31 foreign trips over the…Fri Oct 08 2010 - 01:00
Fás review plan to be consideredA draft plan for the reconfiguration of the State training agency Fás, will be considered by its board at an all-day meeting …Mon Oct 04 2010 - 01:00
Beacon creditors to hold meetingTHE MANAGEMENT company charged with servicing the Beacon South Quarter in Sandyford, Co Dublin, is deeply insolvent and having…Mon Oct 04 2010 - 01:00
Credit union loan arrears rise to 14.9% by end of JuneCREDIT UNION loans in arrears increased to 14Thu Sept 30 2010 - 01:00
Loan arrears at credit unions riseLoans in arrears for credit unions in the Irish League of Credit Unions increased to 14.9 per cent from 9Wed Sept 29 2010 - 01:00
Banks take another hit on bleak day for Irish marketDUBLIN REPORT: Iseq: 2,661.16 (–21Wed Sept 29 2010 - 01:00
Partnership that owns Fás office includes tax inspectorONE OF the members of the partnership that owns the development in Birr Co Offaly where Fás rents office space is a senior tax…Fri Sept 24 2010 - 01:00
FitzPatrick registered loan two years after purchaseFORMER CHAIRMAN of Anglo Irish Bank Seán FitzPatrick and his wife Catriona registered a mortgage against an apartment in Dublin…Fri Sept 24 2010 - 01:00
FitzPatrick's monthly income just €188, High Court toldTHE FORMER chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, Seán FitzPatrick, whose debts exceed his assets by more than €95 million, has a monthly…Thu Sept 23 2010 - 01:00
Not enough creditors for bank trustee to disburse assetsTHERE WAS nothing about Seán FitzPatrick yesterday indicating he was a broken man or one who was too deflated to try to save …Thu Sept 23 2010 - 01:00
Parlon had role in purchase of Fás siteTHE FORMER Minister of State at the Department of Finance Tom Parlon was involved in the background to the purchase of a €1.5…Sat Sept 18 2010 - 01:00
30% not complying with RevenueTAX: THE RESULTS of Revenue audits from recent years indicate the underlying level of non-compliance is approximately 30 per…Thu Sept 16 2010 - 01:00
Fallon & Byrne in €734,000 settlement with RevenueTHE DUBLIN food hall and restaurant business, Fallon & Byrne, has made a €733,719 settlement after an extensive audit by …Wed Sept 15 2010 - 01:00
Translation company pays €1.67m to RevenueA COMPANY founded by a former Ernst & Young emerging ethnic entrepreneur of the year has made a €1Wed Sept 15 2010 - 01:00
Fallon & Byrne in €733,719 tax billThe Revenue Commissioners yielded over €120 million in tax, interest and penalties from its audit and investigation programmes…Tue Sept 14 2010 - 01:00
Government moves to calm markets with Anglo planTHE GOVERNMENT has unveiled plans to split Anglo Irish Bank into two entities and wind them down or sell themThu Sept 09 2010 - 01:00
Ulster Bank to open on SaturdaysULSTER BANK has said it is to open many of its branches on Saturday as part of a programme aimed at improving customer services…Mon Sept 06 2010 - 01:00
Fás seemed to focus more on spending than achieving valueANALYSIS: The rapid expansion of in-service training created enormous pressures for FásSat Sept 04 2010 - 01:00
Bourke in call to landlordsTHE RESTAURATEUR and publican Jay Bourke has said landlords have to adjust their expectations when the businesses they are depending…Sat Sept 04 2010 - 01:00
Nama must decide over funding for Anglo HQTHE NATIONAL Asset Management Agency (Nama) will have to decide whether it should fund the completion of developer Liam Carroll…Fri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
D2 losses exceed €17m for 2008COMPANIES IN the D2 Private property investment group, owned by David Arnold and Deirdre Foley, recorded losses of more than €…Fri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
EC withdraws fund over Fás auditsThe director of the European Commission in Dublin has said European funding for jobs training has de facto been withdrawn for…Fri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Judge wrote to Cowen about inquiryTHE CHAIRMAN of the Moriarty tribunal wrote to the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, in May assuring him that information he had given …Mon Aug 09 2010 - 01:00
Hanging up his briefcaseTHE FRIDAY INTERVIEW/Tony O'Brien, former chairman of C&C: IT WAS A warm and humid on the day Tony O’Brien (73) agreed to…Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Glass Bottle site loans transferred to NamaTHE BANK loans associated with the disastrous €411 million acquisition of the Irish Glass Bottle site in Ringsend, Dublin, in…Wed Jul 28 2010 - 01:00
Construction firm grew from modest beginnings in 1980sTHE LATE Liam Maye was one of the founders of the Castlethorn Construction group, which was one of the State’s largest and most…Tue Jul 27 2010 - 01:00
Losses at healthcare group Aras Sláinte rise to €2.42mTHE HEALTHCARE group Aras Sláinte saw its turnover double in the year to June 30th, 2009, but group losses increased to €2.42…Mon Jul 26 2010 - 01:00
Advisers approved payments, says YatesMANAGEMENT AT investment group One51 has said its lawyers and auditors approved controversial payments that are to be queried…Mon Jul 26 2010 - 01:00
€4.6bn project for Tralee 'in infancy'AN IRISH pharmaceutical company is the lead promoter of a plan to locate a multibillion euro “centre of global pharmaceutical…Tue Jul 20 2010 - 01:00
Timeline of a crisis laid bare in documentsANALYSIS: THE ACCELERATING development of the international banking crisis and its arrival on these shores just as a bank-financed…Sat Jul 17 2010 - 01:00
Writedown of £5.6m at O'Brien coffee firmBB’S COFFEE Muffins Holdings, a UK company ultimately owned by billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien and others, has written …Tue Jul 13 2010 - 01:00
Plucky David or pirate of the Caribbean?BIOGRAPHY: A Mobile Fortune: The Life and Times of Denis O’Brien By Siobhán Creaton Aurum Press, pp320. £14. 99Sat Jul 10 2010 - 01:00
