The High Court has received the first interim report of the inspectors appointed by it to investigate the conduct of affairs at Independent News & Media.

A High Court ruling means restriction orders contained in the Companies Acts cannot be imposed on the directors of credit unions.

The revolution against Mubarak did not have a figurehead; that was said to be key to its success. However, this strength has become a weakness in Egypt’s transition to democracy, writes Omar Ashour

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan will make the final decision on whether state-owned Anglo Irish Bank can continue to withhold documents from the Director of Corporate Enforcement (DCE) by seeking to have them deemed legally privileged.

A RETIRED National Irish Bank regional manager has told the High Court it never crossed his mind to consider, when bogus non-resident accounts were identified as existing within National Irish Bank branches in the 1990s, that DIRT should have been deducted from the accounts and paid to the Revenue Commissioners.