The Government has announced the establishment of a special group to examine the supports afforded to asylum seekers, including direct provision, which will be chaired by a former secretary general of the European Commission.

All-Ireland champions Corofin extended their unbeaten run in the Galway SFC to 42 games.

NAMA is seeking bidders for an 80% stake in Dublin's Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone project which, it says, has the potential for 3,500 homes and 1m sq ft of commercial space.

A review by the Department of Finance has found that NAMA has made "exceptional progress" towards achieving its overall objectives.

NAMA has funded or facilitated the delivery of over 14,000 new homes since the start of 2014, according to the National Asset Management Agency's Annual Report and Financial Statements which were released today.

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At least 23 developers put into Nama because of their part in the economic crash are still receiving salaries of €100,000 a year.

As Nama looks to the end of its original projected lifespan and its legacy will be examined, it must start being honest with itself and the public about the basic facts of its existence, writes Daniel McConnell

Two bonded warehouse companies have won High Court cases over excise demands for €2m and €1m respectively which arose after they said they were the innocent victims of fraud committed when consignments of alcohol did not arrive at their mainland Europe destinations.

The so-called bad bank set up to clear toxic property loans from five banks is to wipe out its €30 billion debt three years ahead of schedule.

Developers will be charged as low as 4% interest on state loans to construct houses under the new Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI) scheme.

London is no stranger to massive construction projects, but the Battersea Power Station venture must surely rank as the most ambitious of recent times.

The Government must allow an “open and transparent” debate on how Ireland will spend Nama’s €3bn predicted surplus before it becomes available at the end of the decade.

John McGuinness said it is not credible for Nama to claim it will deliver a profit when it has written off almost €40bn of the original €72bn value of the loans it took over from banks in 2010.

Fifty Nama staff members have been placed on “gardening leave” for more than three months, with two on paid leave for six months, the Oireachtas Finance Committee was told.

The successful fight against feuding gangs has prepared Limerick well to deal with the threat of Islamic State (IS) terrorism, community leaders have been told.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has pledged that delayed legislation for a vacant site levy will force developers who hoard land to build houses or sell on the sites.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan said there was a lot of confidence in the investigation to be conducted by a judge into the auction of the Project Eagle loans by Nama.

Developers “hoarding” land are delaying building badly needed houses to benefit from rapidly rising house prices, the chief executive of Nama has said.

The Dáil public accounts committee chair has claimed Nama officials warned him they had a “dossier” on his previous comments about the group at the same time they issued a clear legal threat over the findings of the PAC’s Project Eagle report.

Nama chairman Frank Daly has told Sean Fitzpatrick’s trial about a number of board meetings he attended with him before his resignation.

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The bosses of Nama have insisted there was no boardroom row over the controversial €1.6bn Project Eagle deal.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has insisted there was no political pressure from Stormont over the controversial sale of Project Eagle.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan will issue a staunch defence of any actions he took relating to the controversial Project Eagle deal when he attends a cross-party grilling today.

Nama chose not to “terminate” Frank Cushnahan’s role with the group when serious conflict of interest allegations surrounding Project Eagle first emerged because to do so would have damaged a recession-hit Ireland’s reputation even further.

The State’s financial watchdog will stand over his investigation into Nama’s highly criticised €1.3bn Project Eagle today and defend the expertise used to probe the agency’s actions.

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Finance Minister Michael Noonan faces questions about why he let a firesale of Nama’s £1.6bn Northern loans proceed and did not stop it after the emergency of success fee payments in bids.

Nama has insisted it got the best price possible for its controversial Northern Ireland property portfolio.

Nama’s resistance to public scrutiny over its handling of the sale of a distressed loans in the North could result in harmful political fallout, writes Eamon Quinn

Finance Minister Michael Noonan and the National Asset Management Agency have strongly endorsed the auction process behind the sale of the so-called Project Eagle loans.

The State’s bad bank, Nama, has claimed that it cannot solely solve the housing crisis, despite stiff criticism of its policies.

Nama was the €72bn missing elephant of the election campaign, writes Political Editor

Nama bosses have warned Finance Minister Michael Noonan they must have flexibility in deciding pay levels for key staff, if the agency is to deliver its €4.5bn house building programme.

Controversial US fund Cerberus has won a final shoot-out in the latest Nama auction of debtors’ loans — known as the Project Arrow portfolio — which were worth €6.25 billion at face value.

Nama chairman Frank Daly has denied that the Irish taxpayer was “robbed” or that the agency’s €1.6bn Northern portfolio sale — called Project Eagle — was a “corrupt” process.

The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, rather appropriately, is sometimes referred to as the ‘toxic bank’.

I was talking to the assistant manager from my local bank the other day. Very bright lad, sharp as a tack, the sort who could accurately count your lodgement just by having a quick glance at the size of it out of the corner of his eye.

Commercial property prices across a large chunk of the Project Eagle loans in Belfast have soared by up to 20% since Nama signed off on the transaction for €1.6bn just over 12 months ago, the Irish Examiner has confirmed.

Nama paid international investment house Lazard more than €5m to oversee the sale of the controversial Project Eagle loan portfolio which has been dogged by allegations of wrongdoing over the past fortnight.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan will deliver the keynote address this morning at the biennial Global Intelligence Forum taking place in Dungarvan.