TAKING the road out of Kinsale, passing on from Belgooly, you might see a flash as you take a small bend.

ANGLO Irish Bank is expecting to show a loss of €17.6 billion for 2010, the largest annual loss in the country’s corporate history, as the institution’s chairman, Alan Dukes, said the Irish banking system’s total losses may amount to €100bn.

The Duke of Westminster’s property company today unveiled 2006 results revealing a 23% rise in the value of its portfolio, including the UK’s most expensive office block, 77 Grosvenor Street.