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.

Pre-tax profits at the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Co Kilkenny last year increased by 67% to €834,979. Newly-filed accounts for Lyrath Demesne Ltd show revenues increased by 8.5% to €12.7m.

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

Noel Baker The director and assistant director of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) have apologised for the mishandling of a case in which a bank is seeking to repossess a house but where the householders lodged an appeal and money was taken from their account, only for the RTB to rule that the bank could proceed.

A judge has said he may summons the chief executive of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) to appear in his court after expressing his "surprise, disappointment and astonishment" at its apparent lack of communication with regard to a live case.

A builder described by a judge as "a poor and self-serving historian with little consideration for the effects on others of his story telling" has been ordered by the High Court to complete the sale of his family home.

Former Miss Ireland and TV star Pamela Flood and husband Ronan Ryan will not have to pay any of the €1.2m debt they owe against the plush North Dublin home they have lived in rent free for the past nine years.

AN ENTIRE holiday home complex under the Caha mountains, on 10 waterfronting acres next door to movie maker and writer Neil Jordan’s West Cork hideaway, has come for sale, trading exceptionally well thanks to new management and the boost of the Wild Atlantic Way.

The Munster headquarters of the Bank of Ireland, at 32 South Mall in Cork city centre has been put up for sale, as a banking blue-blood, blue-chip investment. The guide is €16 million.

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 company has secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing a ‘vulture fund’-appointed receiver from carrying out any of his functions in respect of a south Dublin property consisting of several apartments and a car park.

The building bust provided a bonanza for accountancy firms with new figures showing that Nama has paid receivers €115.39m over the past seven years.

Three banks have now retrieved almost €5.7m after appointing receivers to the assets formerly owned by TD Mick Wallace’s main building firm.

A shopkeeper claims a fund which took over her mortgage is using "extraordinarily aggressive tactics" to force her to refinance or else sell the shop through a receiver, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

WHEN Fianna Fáil set up Nama in 2009, it was a painful but necessary response to Ireland’s financial crisis, notwithstanding the fact that the party bore major responsibility for the economic meltdown in the first place.

AIB has set aside €190m to compensate customers wrongly moved off tracker mortgage loans. The bank also admitted 14 people had lost their home as a result of the error.

Auditing firm KPMG was paid fees and expenses of over €770,000 concerning the administration of the five-star Lough Erne resort, new documents show.

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.

Three banks have recouped nearly €5m, between them, from the receivership of assets formerly owned by M&J Wallace; main building arm of independent TD Mick Wallace.

Profits at the company that operates Griffith College trebled last year to €2.5m.

I am confused about how our ‘new politics’ is meant to work. I am less and less convinced that it will deliver the optimal outcome for the country.

Adele King, better known as Twink, hopes to be able to resume full monthly mortgage repayments on her home which is under threat of repossession by a bank, a judge was told yesterday.

GOOD profit levels are now recorded at Kilkenny’s Lyrath Estate hotel and spa on 170 pastoral acres, up for sale a decade after it opened at a development cost of €50m.

The receiver to the €50m five-star Lyrath resort hotel in Co Kilkenny has received €1.35m in fees to date, new figures show

A CORK city office investment comes for sale this week for €2.5 million, just as a law firm in Ireland’s Top 20 prepares to move into it.

The State is to contest a Supreme Court challenge taken by businessman and anti-eviction activist Jerry Beades to the appointment of Justice Peter Kelly as president of the High Court.

A bid by Bank of Scotland to substitute Start Mortgages as the applicant in re-possession proceedings for the home of Adele Condron-King, otherwise known as Twink, was struck out by a judge yesterday.

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

Jim Nugent, who famously gave a “dig-out” to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has had the €1.3m D4 apartment at Haseldene, Ballsbridge, handed back to a bank.

Documents furnished to a buyer of a unit at the questionable Longboat Quay complex did not reveal the extent of existing issues, writes Michael Clifford

A new education/arts use is being pencilled in for a high profile Cork city centre building by the proposed events centre/Brewery Quarter, which is being sold for well over €1 million.

The operators of the €295m Rathcormac-Fermoy bypass in Co Cork last year recorded operating profits of just under €144,000 per week.

Most of the mortgage lenders have now announced rate cuts in response to their meeting with the finance minister.