AIB has revealed that 2019 pre-tax profits fell by 60% to €499m. Though more or less €10m a week, the figure is down from 2018’s €20m-plus a week. Though all banks pay an annual levy the fact that they can, like all banks, write off losses against tax, meaning it will pay no corporation tax on profits for years to come, must soften the blow.

The sale of Irish and International art by Whyte’s goes on view at the RDS in Dublin today.

Enda Patrick Whelan of College Grove, Ennis, Co Clare will make a payment of approximately €50,000 to his creditors.

What a difference a decade makes: On this exact date 10 years ago, I dropped a friend to Shannon Airport — another statistic in the gathering gloom of Ireland’s great recession.

Des O’Sullivan reports on stellar prices and previews upcoming sales

Once upon a time, Greg Coughlan was on top of the world with successful businesses and millions to his name. Then the recession hit, writes Dan Buckley

Take a peek at some of the slate here.

A couple have lost their appeals against a decision that Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is entitled to an order for possession of their family home arising from failure to repay a loan advanced in the 1990s.

A legal action against former Anglo Irish Bank executive Thomas Browne has been listed for hearing in the Commercial Court for April next year.

The reassurances on Nama made by the late Brian Lenihan a decade ago were a puff of smoke, writes Political Editor, Daniel McConnell.

The High Court has ruled that developer Garrett Kelleher is not entitled to certain categories of discovery in his action against a Nama company over the alleged leaking and dissemination of his and his business's confidential financial information to third parties.

Former La Stampa restaurant owner, Louis Murray has instructed his lawyer to apologise for and withdraw comments about a bank-appointed receiver, including calling him "a thug" the High Court has heard.

The owner of two prestigious Georgian office buildings in Dublin's Stephen's Green faces receivership of the properties after he failed to pursue High Court injunction proceedings blocking efforts to prevent the takeover due to a €13m debt.

The event, at Lahinch Golf Club, the venue for the forthcoming Irish Open, is attended by members of the Oireachtas past and present, as well as staff and the media.

In April 2007, at the height of the madness, I felt the wrath of one of the most powerful figures in the country at the time.

Two further judgments, for a total $133m and for a total 72m Russian roubles (about €1m), have been obtained on consent against some members of businessman Sean Quinn's family and some of their spouses.

A conditional judgment for €445m is part of the settlement of the long and bitter litigation between the Quinn family and State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.

A settlement could be reached next week of the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s five adult children challenging the validity of securities provided by them for hundreds of millions of euro in loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies.

The marathon case by Sean Quinn’s five adult children has been further adjourned by the High Court to tomorrow as settlement talks continue.

Settlement talks are underway in the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s five adult children denying liability for some €410m under guarantees of loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies.

Talks are underway in the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s children denying liability for some €415m under guarantees of loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies, the High Court has heard.

The case, initiated in 2011, is currently being heard by Mr Justice Garrett Simons and may last months.

A High Court judge will rule next week whether Sean Quinn’s children can pursue a key claim their father unduly influenced them to sign securities for loans of hundreds of millions by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn group companies.

Two former senior executives with the Quinn group are "very reluctant" witnesses in the action by Sean Quinn's adult children disputing any liability under guarantees for loans of more than €415m, the High Court has been told.

A High Court Judge today warned a couple they face being imprisoned if they do not vacate a house in Limerick currently in receivership within two weeks.

Sean Quinn’s family used the Quinn group as their “personal bank” from which they extracted some €1.95bn to fund their personal lifestyles, property acquisition and significant losses, the High Court has been told.

Denis O’Brien can feel the pain of the Isle of Man 19. Both he and the 19 individuals had their privacy breached.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

The response to the announcement that the Government is expected to strengthen and rename the agency entrusted with overseeing company law and investigating white-collar crime must be mixed; once bitten, twice shy, as it were.

The State’s white collar crime watchdog is set to be given sweeping new powers to help it investigate complex cases in the wake of the collapse last year of the Sean FitzPatrick IBRC trial.

The sale of a portfolio of properties by Nama for €26 million was “illegal” and in breach of its own statutory act, the Dáil has heard.

It is ten years to the day since the bank guarantee.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime...

Multi-billion euro fraudster David Drumm is working as a cleaner in the basement of Mountjoy Prison, the Irish Examiner understands.

Multi-billion euro fraudster David Drumm is working as a cleaner in the basement of Mountjoy Prison, the Irish Examiner understands.

Calls for an Irish boycott of next year’s Eurovision being held in Israel have been dismissed by the Tánaiste.

David Drumm’s meteoric rise through the world of Irish banking was attributed to a large degree to his capacity to get things done, writes Michael Clifford.

Accountability for grave errors is rare but don’t expect things to change any time soon, says Political Editor Daniel McConnell.