Senior AIB officials expressed concerns in 2006 that Central Bank stress tests were "not stressful enough" — two years before the collapse of the Irish banking system.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny expects taoisigh will appear before the long-awaited Oireachtas banking inquiry, which is expected to begin hearings in advance of next year’s European and local elections.

An investigation was ordered after a protester burst into the Leveson Inquiry as Tony Blair was giving evidence and yelled “this man should be arrested for war crimes”.

Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan once told Jeremy Paxman how to access voicemail messages, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

A LEADING child support group is calling for dedicated support for sexually-abused children after demand by young people for its therapy services increased by a quarter.

One of Tony Blair's closest advisers will be grilled by the Iraq Inquiry today as it starts a week of evidence sessions dominated by key political figures.

SENIOR bankers should be hauled before a televised Oireachtas inquiry to explain how they made such “a mess” that they required a State bailout, said the chairman of An Bord Snip.

Nineteen serving and retired police officers in the North will be able to give their evidence to the Robert Hamill Inquiry from behind screens, it was announced tonight.

IT is obscene the head of Dunne Inquiry into Organ Retention and her senior legal team were each paid €1,902 a day for a job that they never completed, campaign group Parents for Justice (PFJ) said yesterday.

A GOVERNMENT party senator Ann Ormonde admitted to the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday she failed to tell a Fianna Fáil party probe she got political donations of nearly £3,000 from Monarch development company.

SINN FÉIN chief Martin McGuinness was accused yesterday of lying to the Saville Inquiry when he claimed he sought permission from a family to give the whereabouts of an IRA safe house on Bloody Sunday.

A Real IRA prisoner serving 18 years for possession of arms was released from jail today to give evidence to the Saville Inquiry in Derry.

Mohammed Al Fayed today insisted there was evidence that his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales were murdered by “the British intelligence”.

A document compiled by the British army’s most senior officer detailing shots fired by soldiers on Bloody Sunday did not explain how 13 unarmed civilians were killed, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL wanted to expose Government weapons expert David Kelly as the BBC’s source on the Iraq weapons dossier as he thought it would “f***” reporter Andrew’s Gilligan’s story, the Hutton Inquiry was told yesterday.

Beleaguered BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan was returning to the Hutton Inquiry today knowing he is already at the centre of an investigation by his bosses.

The Saville Inquiry into the killing of 13 unarmed Catholic civilians by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday is due to resume later today.

David Kelly was “taken aback” by the way BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan grilled him for information, the Hutton Inquiry was told today.

DISGRACED former MI5 officer David Shayler claimed yesterday that he was told an IRA informer who alleged Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness told him he fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday was a “bullshitter”.

The officer in command of paratroopers in Derry on Bloody Sunday today said he did not hear any army shooting before he sent his men into the nationalist Bogside area.

Health Minister Micheál Martin has been accused of becoming increasingly isolated because of his stance in maintaining the Dunne Inquiry into organ retention.

ALL families involved in the organ retention scandal are being urged to pull out of the State inquiry into the affair.

A number of parents of deceased children whose organs were removed without the parents’ knowledge or consent have turned to the gardaí in the hope criminal prosecutions will ensue.

The British army’s wall of snipers on Bloody Sunday did not spot a single gunman during the main shootings, the Saville Inquiry was told today.

The most senior surviving British military officer on Bloody Sunday was today giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry.

Soldier 027, who is giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry in London, recalled that on Bloody Sunday his platoon moved in south down Rossville Street in armoured vans after getting the go-ahead from Major Ted Loden, Commander of the Support unit.

The Saville Inquiry in Derry has heard that British soldiers set out to ambush the leaders of the IRA in Derry on Bloody Sunday 30 years ago.

A man who was seriously injured on Bloody Sunday, when a canister of CS gas blasted into his face, was later smuggled south of the border for treatment, the Saville Inquiry heard today.