The chairman of Hiqa has confirmed he was asked by a nursing home operator to stop an inspection report from appearing on the health watchdog’s website.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has confirmed that it is examining information it received about potential anti-competitive conduct in the private nursing home sector.

The Government is under-funding vital road repairs by as much as €100m every year, putting lives at risk and undermining the safety of road surfaces across the country.

Three senior Nama board members have rejected claims the State property group made any attempts to help a US investment firm stay in the Project Eagle bidding process after fixers’ fee concerns were raised.

Serious shortcomings in foster care services were found by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) last year.

There were around 30 reported instances every day last year where residents in nursing homes and those in centres for people with disabilities were deemed to be possibly at risk.

Private nursing homes in Cork and Kerry recorded the highest occupancy rate in the country last year, new figures show.

The Health Information and Quality Authority’s director of regulation, Phelim Quinn, has been appointed the Authority’s acting chief executive from today.

An insolvent concrete and quarrying company is to continue to receive High Court protection so it can come up with a survival plan, a judge has ruled.

The liquidator to building firm Tom Hayes Ltd said yesterday that it is “a little bit unlikely” that unsecured creditors owed over €2.7m will see any of their monies.

Tensions developed between the Limerick City of Culture board and former artistic director, Karl Wallace over a proposal to stage a major international weekend event costing €1.8m, it emerged yesterday.

A Co Galway couple have been restrained by the High Court from interfering with a receiver appointed by a bank to take over their five-store retail development.

PREFERENTIAL and unsecured creditors owed over €9 million by collapsed architectural firm, Murray O’Laoire Architects are unlikely to receive any of their money.

The hoopla emerging from Friday’s distressed property auction in the Shelbourne Hotel obscures huge headaches for the new Government.

Limerick President of Limerick Chamber Kieran Mac Sweeney announced that five new directors will serve on the Chamber Board in 2011.

Limerick: Ely Property Group, the Dublin-based student accommodation group, has taken over the management of the 180-bed Troy Student Village serving the University of Limerick.

A High Court challenge has been brought to Anglo Irish Banks' decision to appoint a member of Nama's board of directors as Receiver to a number of properties in Co Clare.

FORMER taoiseach John Bruton has called for a wide-reaching new development model to be drawn up for Ireland’s future stability, warning that a return to so-called normality cannot be expected once the recession runs its full course.

FORMER Revenue chairman Frank Daly and outgoing IMF consultant Stephen Seelig have been appointed to the board of NAMA by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

The Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has announced the make up of the board of the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney warned yesterday it could become “impossible” to set up nursing homes in Dublin with the high price being demanded for land.

BEDS in nursing homes around the country remain empty while hospital consultants struggle to admit patients whose beds are taken up by elderly people well enough to be discharged.