The setting up of a parliamentary banking inquiry is gathering pace, with Oireachtas sources suggesting that its work will begin before the Dáil summer recess.

FEARS that Libertas is being funded by anti-EU elements in the Pentagon and the CIA were raised in the European Parliament yesterday amid claims the anti-Lisbon treaty group spent more than €2 million on its campaign.

Police investigating abuse claims at a former children’s home on Jersey began accessing the final pair of four secret underground chambers today.

The garda investigation into May’s bus crash near Navan, which killed five schoolgirls, is complete and has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, it emerged tonight.

KMPG, one of the country’s largest accountancy firms, has had adverse findings made against it in the inspectors’ report into the affairs of National Irish Bank.