Developer Sean Dunne has been declared bankrupt by the High Court in Dublin.

The credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has upgraded its outlook for Ireland from stable to positive, while retaining the BBB rating.

Musgrave-owned SuperValu and Superquinn are holding their own in the grocery shopping sector, as discounters Aldi and Lidl eat into the market share of the multiples.

Gayle Killilea Dunne was officially identified as a creditor of her property developer husband Sean in court documents filed yesterday in Connecticut.

A US court has cleared the way for Ulster Bank to continue bankruptcy proceedings against property developer Sean Dunne in Ireland.

If you are unfortunate enough to be a creditor of Sean Dunne and need to calculate exactly what he owes you ‘do the math’, as the Americans say, because sums aren’t his thing.

The Commercial Court has been told Dunnes Stores is adopting a 'can pay, won't pay' attitude to a judgment order for over €21m.

Eamonn Dunne’s phone received pictures of a naked woman from the phone of a man allegedly involved in an attempted cash-in-transit van raid, a jury has heard.

Sligo secured their Division 3 status for another season courtesy of this two-point win over Offaly in O’Connor Park.

Antrim maintained their winning start to the 2012 Allianz FL Division 3 campaign with a nine-point win over Offaly, but Faithful boss Gerry Cooney fired a broadside at referee Ciaran Branagan before leaving Casement Park.

Eamonn Dunne’s phone received pictures of a naked woman from the phone of a man involved in the attempted theft from a cash-in-transit van, a jury has heard.

Urgent legislation is needed to protect consumers who deal with debt management agencies.

THE restaurant business is all-encompassing and work becomes your life, if you are passionate.

THE penultimate night in the Airtricity League could see Shamrock Rovers crowned champions for the second year in succession — without even having to kick a ball.

Dunnes Stores has commenced its' High Court challenge against a tax assessment of €36.4m arising out of the levy for plastic shopping bags.

YOU have to hand it to Sean Dunne. He has an irrepressible spirit. Whatever brickbats fate hurls at him, he just gets up, brushes himself down, and carries on. Some might say that he typifies what made this country great.

LAST year’s Hennerty Laurels runner-up Tubbertelly Dubh begins his build up to the Curraheen classic when he contests the opening round of the Larry Dunne Open 525 at Shelbourne on Saturday night.

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WBA Super Bantamweight champion Bernard Dunne is leaving no stone unturned as he enters the final stages of preparations for his first World title defence at the O2 Arena later this month.

HUNDREDS of thousands of documents and witness testimonies compiled by the Child Abuse Commission are not in any imminent danger of destruction, the commission said.

An inquiry into the deaths of a family of four in their Co Wexford home last year will report in September.

MORE Irish jobs have been lost to a low-cost Asian economy.

JASON McKAY will have bigger scalps on his mind when he faces seasoned Romanian Mugurel Sebe in the “Battle on Leeside” at Cork City Hall on Saturday night.

Healthcare officials today insisted they were unaware of any risks for a family of four who were found dead in their home.

Jurys Doyle has agreed to sell The Berkeley Court Hotel site to Padholme, a company controlled by property developer Sean Dunne for €119m.

PARENTS for Justice is urging its members to boycott the State’s latest inquiry into the retention and use of dead children’s organs.

LOBBY group Parents for Justice last night criticised the Government’s delay in making public the findings of the Dunne Inquiry into the babies’ organs retention scandal.

TANAISTE Mary Harney is to bring proposals to Cabinet shortly which will allow the organ retention scandal inquiry to be completed by an expert, her spokesman said yesterday.

Hundreds of parents of children who had their organs illegally removed by hospitals have been betrayed by the Government because it won’t set up a public inquiry into the scandal, it was claimed today.

PARENTS seeking details of post-mortem procedures carried out on their children have been refused access to records despite making requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

PROPERTY developer Tom Gilmartin is expected to make claims that will prove deeply embarrassing to Fianna Fáil when he begins his evidence at the Mahon Tribunal in Dublin Castle this week.

OUSTED Dunnes Stores boss Ben Dunne said the changes in the structure of the family trust disclosed yesterday “opens up a lot of possibilities, good and bad” for the group.

ONE of the country’s largest bakeries is to close with the loss of 50 jobs.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin is unfit to hold office, parents involved in the organ retention scandal said yesterday.

ALL families involved in the organ retention scandal are being urged to pull out of the State inquiry into the affair.

The report into the organ retention scandal is due to be discussed by cabinet today.

The Parents for Justice group is due to meet officials from the Dunne Inquiry today to discuss its ongoing investigation into the unauthorised removal of organs from dead babies.

The Munster council has named Tipperary’s Tommy Dunne as its hurler of the year.

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