Within easy reach and open all hours, Robert Hume pays tribute to the automated telling machine (ATM), or ‘hole-in-the-wall’, which celebrates its 50th birthday today.

The Central Bank has cut its growth forecast for this year even as the Irish economy has shown “resilience” to the first shockwaves from the UK’s Brexit vote and the drop in the value of sterling against the euro.

A man who took more than a million pounds from his severely-disabled father's bank account to go on a lavish spending spree has been jailed for five years in England.

Liam de Paor reports from the Livestock Event 2016 in Birmingham, where Brexit was the big topic for UK farmers

British interior minister Theresa May and eurosceptic rival Andrea Leadsom emerged as the two candidates who will battle to become Britain’s next prime minister and lead the country out of the EU.

Immediate effect is less wealth, which will affect our ability to sell goods and services.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of an Irishman accused of torturing his roommate’s cat, after it emerged he left the US and returned home writes John Breslin.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of an Irishman accused of torturing his roommate’s cat, after it emerged he left the US and returned home.

International investors, hedge funds, banks, credit unions, and developers are among 24 groups who have offered to fund or provide social housing.

The Central Bank has spent €119m on professional fees since 2011, including expenditure of €27.55m last year.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

There is nothing like a strong tonic in the form of a collapsing oil price to help a stock market bull who is starting to sweat following a long run.

A lovestruck graphic designer tried to kill her magistrate mother by lacing her Diet Coke with lethal poison in a murder plot inspired by TV series Breaking Bad, a court in England has heard.

Another day like that and the people behind this Prestbury Cup lark will be left with a considerable amount of Cotswold mud on their faces.

A group of alleged cyber plotters accused of stealing £1.3m from a British bank branch by taking control of its computer system will appear in court today.

Putting in place an effective bank resolution regime as well as eliminating regulatory arbitrage are two of the steps needed to solve the ‘too big to fail’ problem in the financial services sector, according to the former chief executive of Barclays Bank, Bob Diamond.

An anonymous half-million pound bequest to Britain has mushroomed to £350m (€410m) since it was made 85 years ago, trustee Barclays Bank said — but London lawmakers cannot get their hands on it.

A judge in New York has approved a deal that will allow HSBC to pay a record $1.9bn (€1.46bn) penalty to settle claims that the British bank helped Mexican drug traffickers, Iran, Libya and others under US suspicion or sanction, move their money around the world.

ALL of the obnoxious wrongs being revealed at Anglo Irish Bank do not make the equally abhorrent actions of the Quinn family right.

Nearly 20% of Ireland’s wealthy people have seen the value of their assets halved as a result of their over-reliance on property.

The NTMA will look to raise about €2bn this week through a syndicated tap of an existing bond.

Michael Keeley, a senior partner in Walbrook Capital, which has taken a 17% stake in the National Asset Management Agency Investment Ltd (Namail) was embroiled in a standoff between the UK Financial Services Authority and Barclays Bank in 2011.

Bank of Ireland has marginally downgraded its 2012 growth forecast for the economy, from 1% to 0.8%, due mainly to worsening consumer spending patterns.

John Daly discusses the highs (and sometimes lows) of the entrepreneurial journey.

Tipperary’s 2001 All-Ireland-winning manager, Nicky English, has ruled himself out of consideration for the vacant county position.

Banking’s reputation was already on the floor when along came rate-fixing and money laundering for drug cartels and rogue states to completely destroy the public’s trust, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

DO we really want a random collection of unqualified TDs investigating the most calamitous financial disaster in the history of the State?

The political row in Britain over the fixing of inter-bank lending rates deepened at the weekend via the publication of confidential advice from UBS to the previous Labour government on how to reduce the key Libor rate at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

In order for our banks to regain public trust, they need to change their culture, and remember their core purpose — of service to the community, writes Ray Kinsella

Looking to emerging Asian markets for new business must be a top priority for Irish companies, two separate conferences communicated as their central message yesterday.

Already new GAA president Liam O’Neill is in exalted company. Not only does he stride in the footsteps of luminaries such as Maurice Davin, Con Murphy and Seán Kelly. But men like Matt Barrett, Gerald Ratner and David Shepherd can also now call him one of their own.

Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays Bank, has painted himself as the ultimate self-made man, rising from nothing to lead a bank with £33bn in assets. But all that glisters may not be gold for the banker, says Kyran Fitzgerald

Britain's Barclays bank will reportedly attempt to defend itself against "banker bashing" by revealing it's cut pay and met targets for lending to businesses.

FORMER Barclays Bank executive, Jeremy Masding has been appointed chief executive of the enlarged banking division of Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P).

THE MONTGOMERIE course at Carton House near Maynooth, Kildare is set to be confirmed today as the venue for next year’s Irish Open.

Blackburn today denied reports they are on the verge of a financial crisis.

KOFI ANNAN: the name sounds familiar.

THE European Tour and sponsors, the Andalucian Tourist Board, must have been furious the Andalucian Masters was bypassed by many marquee names in favour of the Shanghai Masters.

Dublin: A leading strategist at the wealth management arm of Barclays Bank has suggested that the Irish economy could be in a better position than many people believe, and has urged investor calmness in response to the recent turbulence in the equity markets.

The US government has begun legal action against 17 financial firms, including the country’s largest banks, for selling billions worth of mortgage-backed securities that turned toxic when the housing market collapsed.

IRISH companies are more optimistic than their British counterparts about the prospects for economic growth over the next 10 years, according to a new study.

FUNDING of €500 million raised by Bord Gáis will ensure the company maintains a “robust financial position”, according to senior executives.

FÁILTE IRELAND’S commitment to the Irish Open, at least for 2011, means that the country’s flagship golf tournament will go ahead for the second successive year and for the fourth time in all at Killarney on July 28-31 next.