Charlie Swan is already looking forward to next year’s John Smith’s Grand National, when he could have two runners in Offshore Account and Oodachee.

Revenue investigations into tax dodging netted €147m for the Exchequer in the first three months of the year with the name-and-shame list topped by a publican.

PROPOSALS to stop the country’s highest earners using tax schemes and incentives to slash their tax bills were thrown out before last year’s Budget because the Government feared the move would cost more than it saved.

IRISH Life & Permanent plc expects lending to increase by 30% this year to just short of E6 billion for the full year, the company said in a trading statement yesterday.