The biggest property deal in the North's history was "seriously deficient", the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said.

Former British Chancellor George Osborne is to be paid £650,000 a year for working just 48 days a year at asset manager BlackRock, according to the UK parliament’s register of members interests.

The Public Accounts Committee’s report in Project Eagle has found it was not appropriate to give preferential treatment to any organisations engaged in the final stages of a bidding process for the purchase of assets owned by the State, or involved in a tendering process under public procurement.

As the US and Britain consider pushing up barriers to trade, smaller players like Ireland will need to use their brains as never before, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

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

Northern Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has said Northern Ireland’s entire political system has been corrupted by the £1.24bn Project Eagle property sale.

The winner of the controversial multi-billion euro Project Eagle Nama deal paid two firms heavily involved in a previous bid stg£15m for help "accessing" Finance Minister Michael Noonan and "the Northern Ireland executive".

Northern Ireland deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has insisted he had “no involvement” in the appointment of businessman Frank Cushnahan to a Nama advisory group linked to Project Eagle.

Nama has been accused by US investment firm Pimco of “repeatedly mischaracterising” its role in the controversial sale of its Northern Ireland loan book.

Nama has denied that some potential investors were discouraged from participating in the controversial £1.3bn (€1.6bn) sale of its Northern Ireland loan book, known as Project Eagle, writes Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

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.

A senior Nama director has dismissed as "simply wrong" claims that Nama lost up to €210m in its controversial sale of a massive Northern Ireland property portfolio.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has denied “directing” Nama to quickly sell-off its Project Eagle loans in a move which allegedly lost the State €220m, despite admitting to seeking and giving “advice” on the highly controversial 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 has insisted he did not put pressure on NAMA to sell the multi-billion euro Project Eagle property bundle in 2014, writes Fiachra O Cionnaith of the Irish Examiner.

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.

Nama must be held accountable for its handling of the controversial sale of a £1.2bn (€1.39bn) Northern Ireland property portfolio, the Public Accounts Committe has insisted.

“Those Northerners eh? You just couldn’t be up to them” — that seems to be, at least part of, the rationale presented as to why Nama decided to dispose of its Northern Ireland loan book when it did.

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’s decision to sell the Project Eagle loan book as a single bundle and at a reduced price cost the taxpayer at least £190m — the equivalent of €250m — due to a poorly judged and incorrect assessment of the property bundle’s real value.

Political reporter Fiachra Ó'Cionnaith breaksdown the 'Project Eagle' report and gives us an insight into what is to come.

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.

THERE are fewer more experienced campaigners in the Dáil than Finance Minister Michael Noonan, so his reticence on the Project Eagle deal, where US company Cerberus paid just under €1.6bn for Nama’s North of Ireland portfolio, is pretty hard to understand.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has questions to answer after keeping Stormont counterparts in the dark over proposed payments to a former adviser to Nama, a watchdog claimed.

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.

Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister Martin McGuinness was not “kept in the dark” over the highly controversial £1.2bn (€1.6bn) sale of Nama’s largest ever property portfolio, new Department of Finance records show.

Nama is expected to resist attempts to force the bad bank to appear in Belfast and answer questions about the sale of its entire Northern property portfolio.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan said yesterday that Nama has nothing to hide over the sale of the Project Eagle loans in the North.