LOSSES sustained last year at the British construction firm controlled by builders, Tom and Michael Bailey, totalled £18.9m (€21.6m), new figures show.

THE Revenue Commissioners audit and investigation teams collected €123.3 million from tax defaulters in the three months to the end of September.

THE tent is coming down. And with that single move, Brian Cowen’s reputation as Taoiseach will inevitably go up.

More than ten of the country's wealthiest individuals are being targeted by the Director of Corporate Enforcement.

THE Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement has confirmed it is seeking to have two of the country’s most controversial property developers barred from being actively involved in the running of their business.

O’FLYNN Construction, one of Cork’s largest firms, has joined the growing list of companies to switch to unlimited liability corporate status.

BARRY’S TEA has joined the list of companies opting to give up its limited liability status.

TOM and MICHAEL BAILEY, the controversial builders criticised at the Planning Tribunal, have applied to re-register their company as unlimited.

FIANNA FÁIL yesterday rejected a claim by the Labour Party that it was bypassing strict party funding regulations by securing advertising in the party’s glossy magazine.

The Planning Tribunal’s latest interim report has found that former council official George Redmond received corrupt payments from two property developers.

The Planning Tribunal’s report into the activities of George Redmond will reportedly be published later today.

LABOUR Party spokesman on the environment, Eamon Gilmore, has hit out at the rip-off profits being made on housing development by a clique of speculators.

WHILE nobody should begrudge Mr Justice Feargus Flood the retirement that he finally confirmed yesterday, it is an understatement to say the decision has created a wave of uncertainty about the future of the inquiry that bears his name.

DISGRACED former Fianna Fáil minister Ray Burke wants the taxpayer to pay his €10.5 million legal bill from the Flood Tribunal - despite the fact he obstructed the work of the inquiry.

POLITICAL donations to Sinn Féin fell dramatically last year after new rules banned political parties from accepting donations from abroad.

FORMER minister Ray Burke was handed £30,000 in cash at his home in north Dublin in June 1989 and knew it was for his support and influence in rezoning lucrative development land, the Flood Tribunal has concluded.