A lot may have changed in the last 20 years, but in many ways, few lessons have been learned from how we lived in the late 1990s and early 2000s, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

A High Court judge has said he is minded to approve a personal insolvency arrangement for musician Frank McNamara and his wife, barrister Theresa Lowe to assist them with debts of €3.7m, subject to clarification of certain issues.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by businessman and anti-eviction activist Jerry Beades against €9.6m judgment orders granted against him concerning loans advanced for a development of 48 apartments in north inner city Dublin.

The former publisher of The Dubliner magazine and food critic, Trevor White, has resolved a High Court dispute with a financial fund which will allow him to keep his family home.

Publisher and food critic Trevor White has pulled out of moves to seek a personal insolvency arrangement to deal with his debts, the High Court has heard.

A dispute between a financial fund and partnership comprised of broadcaster Gay Byrne, his wife and their two daughters has been settled.

A High Court judge wants the Court of Appeal to decide significant legal issues “clearly of considerable public importance” and potentially affecting hundreds of repossession cases.

A High Court judge wants the Court of Appeal to decide significant legal issues "clearly of considerable public importance", potentially affecting hundreds of repossession cases.

A couple who discovered an error in Bank of Scotland’s sale of their €170,000 mortgage to US-owned vulture fund Tanager Limited, smiled as they left court yesterday after a judge threw out Tanager’s bid to take back their home.

AIB has now pocketed €1.19m from the sale of properties formerly owned by Mick Wallace TD’s main building firm around Dublin, documents show.

Politicians eager to get their teeth stuck into debates about changing society as well as ways to restore cash-starved services have tabled several motions for the new Dáil.

A top firm of auditors has defended the €66m it was paid to probe Bank of Ireland, saying it was not there to predict future events.

A couple have lost their Supreme Court appeal against a decision Bank of Scotland plc was entitled to recover €4m from them arising from unpaid loans made for property development purposes and to appoint a receiver over certain properties.

A couple who borrowed €1.4m to refinance property investments have lost their High Court action alleging their lender had not validly appointed a receiver over their assets when they went into arrears.

Serious questions have emerged surrounding the robustness of the Central Bank’s investigation into payment protection insurance after it emerged that the banks were allowed to set their own rates of compensatory interest.

A young couple with a new baby and three other children said yesterday they had a lender’s application to repossess their rural home “sprung upon them”.

Former solicitor Thomas Byrne has been jailed for 16 years with four suspended for stealing €52m from banks and defrauding 13 clients out of their houses or money.

Former solicitor Thomas Byrne has been convicted of stealing €52m from the banks and defrauding 13 clients out of their houses or money.

Former solicitor Thomas Byrne has been convicted of stealing €52m from the banks and defrauding 13 clients out of their houses or money.

Farmer groups have raised concerns about the closure of ACC’s retail bank with the loss of 180 jobs.

Bank of Scotland Ireland viewed Thomas Byrne as “an astute and prudent operator” when lending him over €13m, the former solicitor’s trial has heard.

Bank of Scotland Ireland viewed Thomas Byrne as “an astute and prudent operator” when lending him more than €13m, the former solicitor’s trial has heard.