REVELATIONS of clandestine introductions between the Taoiseach of the day, the chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, and a prominent businessman, whose companies faced a multi million pound tax bill, are the stuff of a Mafia novel.

THE chairman of the Revenue Commissioners held a series of meetings with supermarket boss Ben Dunne in 1987 at the request of then Taoiseach Charles J Haughey at a time when Dunnes Stores was facing a multi-million pound tax bill.

MUSGRAVE has made the list of the world’s largest private companies, the only Irish firm do so.

RAISING the cap on supermarket size is not in Ireland’s interest and there are other means of achieving more competitive prices that should be implemented instead.

DR Michael Smurfit is to resign as chairman of Smurfit Stone on May 8, the day of the group’s annual general meeting.