AN IRISH firm has developed a revolutionary new roadside drug testing kit which will be used by British police later this year as part of their war on drug driving.

ONLY 700 of the estimated 37,000 people who mind children in their homes are properly registered, it has emerged.

THE financial services regulator (IFSRA) considered withdrawing National Irish Bank’s banking licence in the light of its tax evasion overcharging scandals.

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AFTER a six-year investigation, none of 19 former executives at National Irish Bank is likely to face criminal prosecution despite their involvement in tax evasion and overcharging of customers.

NIB branch managers admitted to the High Court inspectors that bogus non-resident accounts were widespread across the bank’s network, resulting in large-scale tax evasion between 1988 and 1996.

NATIONAL Irish bank has been hit with a total bill of €64 million after a devastating report revealed widespread tax evasion and overcharging at the bank.

PUBLICATION of the report into the National Irish Bank’s affairs may be delayed, it emerged yesterday.

THE scandals in the Irish banking sector are damaging the sector's international reputation, Larry Broderick, director general of the Irish Bank Officials' Association, warned yesterday.

THE Revenue Commissioners have recovered more than €700m from tax dodgers and warned there is no safe place for hot money.

The hostile bidding war brewing around Six Continents heated up today with the pubs to hotels group firmly rejecting a £5.5bn (€8bn) bid from entrepreneur Hugh Osmond.

UK entrepreneur Hugh Osmond will make a hostile bid for the leisure group Six Continents if his proposed offer is rebuffed, it emerged today.

RTE reporter Charlie Bird has told the Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial that because a TD encouraged investors to break the law, it made a good story.

RTE reporter Charlie Bird has rejected suggestions that his expose about NIB investment schemes would damage the political career of Beverly Cooper-Flynn.

The Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial at the High Court has been told of how an RTE report about overcharging by NIB Bank led to an expose about CMI investment schemes.

The Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial at the High Court has heard that there was nothing underhand about a clerical medical insurance investment account being identified only by number.

The High Court has been told that a woman feared she might end up in jail when she learned her CMI investment account was illegal.

The High Court has heard that a Co Cavan farmer who invested in an off-shore account with Beverly Cooper Flynn, TD, paid £138,000 in back taxes three years ago to the revenue commissioners.

A tax expert has told the High Court that the investment package at the centre of the Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial was in accordance with Irish tax laws.

Mayo TD Beverly Cooper-Flynn has said she does not recall telling a National Irish Banks' customer that the taxman would never get his hands on his money if he invested in a certain offshore scheme.