Ireland, home of the euro region’s worst banking crisis four years ago, is relaxed about the latest examination of its financial companies.

As Ireland edges back into bond markets, the banks that tipped the country into bankruptcy remain reliant on aid while bad mortgages mount.

BANK of Ireland Plc and Irish Life & Permanent Plc had their credit ratings affirmed by Standard & Poor’s, along with two other banks, and were given negative outlooks.

FORMER Barclays Bank executive, Jeremy Masding has been appointed chief executive of the enlarged banking division of Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P).

THE Government will own more than 99% of Irish Life & Permanent Plc, the country’s third-biggest lender, after providing a €3.4 billion bailout.

The Minister for Finance has secured a court order directing Irish Life & Permanent plc to take steps to achieve the speedy and orderly sale of Irish Life Ltd as part of efforts to achieve the proposed €4 billion recapitalisation of the group.

PERCHED on a chair overlooking a wood panel-lined room in Dublin’s High Court, a bespectacled Judge Elizabeth Dunne has become all-too-used to hearing from the victims of Ireland’s economic meltdown.

Irish Nationwide Building Society has transferred selected assets and liabilities into Irish Life & Permanent plc which comprise €3.6bn of INBS deposits and the shares in INBS' Isle of Man subsidiary.

THE Government has injected a further €525 million to bail out EBS Building Society, effectively bringing it under state control.

EBS Building Society, the country’s biggest customer-owned lender, set an August 9 deadline for a second round of takeover bids, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.

BANK of Ireland, the country’s biggest lender by market value, has raised €1.73 billion in a share sale, boosting capital after losses surged.

Irish Life & Permanent plc has announced plans to phase down its Irish Permanent [Isle of Man] subsidiary.

Irish Life & Permanent group treasurer Michael Torpey is to resign and take up a position as head of banking with the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), it was announced today.

Irish Life & Permanent has confirmed that it has raised €2bn through the issue of a new public fixed rate bond.

Dublin: House prices fell the most in six months in October, extending a real-estate slump that has pushed prices to their lowest in six years.

AIB’s top three directors, chairman Dermot Gleeson, chief executive Eugene Sheehy and finance director John O’Donnell, have resigned in the face of intense pressure to go from the Government and institutional investors.

Irish Life & Permanent plc has announced a fall of 42% in its operating profits for 2008.

ANGLO Irish Bank’s annual report confirms the fact that it had well over €7 billion on deposit from an Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) subsidiary at the 30 September, 2008, its financial year end.

INVESTIGATIONS into the scandal-racked Anglo Irish Bank intensified yesterday over new revelations the bank got billions of euro of deposits from Irish Life & Permanent just before its year end on September 30, 2008.

Irish Life & Permanent plc has announced today that it has completed the final stage in the acquisition of Cornmarket Group Financial Services Ltd in accordance with the terms of a shareholders agreement dated June 1999.

Nell McCafferty, journalist and writer, has said of today's Budget: “If you leave aside the elderly, the women and the children, no-one else feels any pain. That makes Brian Lenihan a bully.

David Byrne has advised Irish Life & Permanent plc that he intends to retire as a non-executive director of the company from the conclusion of the AGM to be held Friday May 23, 2008.

The Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland will host the ACOI Fifth Anniversary Conference on Monday, November 26, 2007 at the Westin Hotel in Dublin.

Irish Life & Permanent plc has today reported a rise of 33% in operating profit for the first six months of the year.

Irish Life & Permanent plc issued an upbeat trading statement at its Annual General Meeting in Jurys Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin today.

The chief executive of Irish Life & Permanent plc has called on the Irish business community to increase the level of financial support it provides to Universities in Ireland in order to support the future success of the economy and the broader society.

Irish Life & Permanent plc have announced the appointment of Denis Casey as group chief executive designate of the group.

Irish Life & Permanent plc has announced financial results for the first half of 2006.

Irish Life & Permanent plc today held its 2006 annual general meeting (AGM) in Jury’s Hotel in Ballsbridge in Dublin.

CRH plc, Jurys Doyle Hotel Group plc and Concern have been cited for the excellence of their annual reports and financial accounts in this year's Published Accounts Awards, announced today.

The chief executive of Irish Life & Permanent plc, David Went, has announced a number of changes to the group’s senior management team.

Irish Life & Permanent has reached agreement with Chesnara on the sale of its closed UK life business, City of Westminster Assurance, for €70m (£47.5m).

Irish Life & Permanent plc has announced that it will donate €100,000 to support relief efforts in Asia following the devastation caused in the region by this week’s earthquake and tsunami.

Irish Life & Permanent plc chairperson Gillian Bowler has announced the appointment of David Byrne as a non-executive director of the group.

Gillian Bowler, Chairman of Irish Life & Permanent plc, has reiterated the group’s focus on growing the number of permanent tsb current account customers significantly in 2005.

THE Irish banking sector is in a lot bigger trouble than people thought.

The chairman of Irish Life & Permanent plc, Gillian Bowler, has announced the appointment of Danuta Gray as a non-executive Director of the Group.

The Chairman of Irish Life & Permanent plc (IL&P), Gillian Bowler, has announced the appointment of Breffni Byrne as a non-executive director of the group.

The ISEQ reacted negatively to yesterday’s Budget

THE ISEQ closed in positive territory yesterday, rising 43.16 points from Thursday's tally to 4419.56 points.

The ISEQ closed in positive territory yesterday, rising 28.91 points from Tuesday's tally to 4341.37 points.

THE ISEQ closed in positive territory yesterday, rising 29.02 points from Friday's tally to 4334.09 points.

THE ISEQ closed higher yesterday, gaining 54.71 to 4346.10.

Brian McConnell has been appointed the new chief executive of permanent tsb, it was confirmed today.