Bank of Ireland branches in Mallow and Mitchelstown form part of a small, four-branch sell off of a larger 30-strong property portfolio which was bought in 2007 for €94 million.

A LIMERICK City bank building, on O’Connell Street and Bedford Row, is being sold for as much as €10m — a recent Munster-bank investment sale price record.

A former Irish Nationwide Building Society chief executive has failed to prevent a bank entering a High Court judgment against him for €5.74m.

The change of use of the former Marymount Hospice building at St Patrick’s Hospital on Cork’s northside, to a third-level college, is not exempt from planning requirements, An Bord Pleanála has decided.

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One of the country’s best-known developers, Gerry Gannon, has made a successful return to the house building business.

The son of property developer Gerry Gannon was found dead in his living room, having taken methadone, an inquest heard.

Maple 10 developer Gerry Gannon has told the Anglo trial that he always found people who worked at the bank to be "honest and truthful".

Losses at the main construction firm controlled by one of the country’s best-known developers, Gerry Gannon widened last year to €143m.

The extent to which Michael “Fingers” Fingleton claimed expenses from his former employer to fund a lavish outlay on designer goods, exclusive hotels, and extravagant entertainment of developers was laid bare in court yesterday.

The failure by the K Club to write down the value of its assets has resulted in its auditors issuing an adverse opinion on the company’s latest accounts.

One of the country’s best- known developers Gerry Gannon shared a paypot of €603,071 in 2011 and 2010 with two other directors, as business plummeted and losses continued at his main building firm.

Its fortunes may have waned in recent years but it’s still a case of who you know if you want to get into the K Club.

The “Maple 10” were the most talked about secret club in Ireland.

Two former senior executives of Anglo Irish Bank are to face criminal prosecution later this year after becoming the first individuals to be charged in the long-running investigation into financial irregularities at the zombie bank.

One of the top bankers in the former rogue lender Anglo Irish Bank has been charged in Ireland with a string of fraud offences.

Two off-beat properties have sold this week in Cork — one an island linked to developer Gerry Gannon, which fell €1m in value in a few years, and the other a nine-bed retirement home.

A KINSALE island linked to property developer Gerry Gannon is to be sold by tender next month, likely to make a quarter of the sum it last sold for in the mid-2000s.

British property investment firm Development Securities has formally announced its intention to acquire assets from Nama believed to be developer Gerry Gannon’s property portfolio in Britain.

Tommy Barker says the owners of this former cottage in Sandycove, Kinsale have gone to great heights to make use of its stunning views.

ONE of the golden circle of businessmen purportedly lent a combined €451 million by Anglo Irish Bank to buy Sean Quinn’s shares has been ordered to provide information to a fraud investigation.

One of the golden circle of businessmen lent money by Anglo Irish Bank to buy shares in the rogue lender has been ordered to help a fraud investigation.

FOLLOWING the cancelling of their players’ contracts on Wednesday, Sporting Fingal confirmed the inevitable last night when the club ceased trading and withdrew its licence application to the Airtricity League for the 2011 season.

Following on from the cancelling of their players’ contracts on Wednesday, Sporting Fingal confirmed the inevitable this evening when the club ceased trading and pulled out of the Airtricity League.

SPORTING FINGAL’S short history in the Airtricity League looks over after the club was forced to cancel the contracts of its entire squad yesterday.

SPORTING FINGAL are on the brink of collapse after the club cancelled all of its players’ contracts yesterday afternoon.

THE Cockney Rebel is back at the Cross. Cork City have announced the return of Danny Murphy to the club where he won a league title in 2005.

BAILED-OUT developers are set to receive salaries and expenses from NAMA, it has emerged, but the toxic bank last night insisted it would not be supporting lavish lifestyles.

GANNON Homes, the property development firm owned by K Club co-owner Gerry Gannon recorded losses of €13.6 million in 2007.

DEVELOPER Gerry Gannon failed to complete the purchase of a lease on a building which formerly housed an investment subsidiary of the Friends First financial group, it was claimed in the High Court yesterday.

ONE of Ireland’s wealthiest property developers has been refused planning permission to revamp one of Kinsale’s most noted hostelries.

AIB is set to make well over €100 million from a sell-off of branches in Munster and Leinster.

Tommy Barker looks back at a year when pubs adapted to the smoking ban and the arrival of new competitors.

THE lyrically-named Windspray, at Summercove, Co Cork, is of it’s era, and that’s not the Georgian period in which it was built, but the Laura Ashley/stripped pine phase of it 1990s makeover.

PROFITS at the paper and packaging group Jefferson Smurfit slipped in the three months to the end of June.

Brian O'Mahony, Chief Business Correspondent

WHAT with the sale of the award-winning Bulman bar to multi-multi-millionaire property developer Gerry Gannon in the last month, who’ll now line up to bid on the facing residential property the Anchorage?

TWO schools have had to depend on the generosity of a property developer to provide a suitable site for proper classrooms.