Nama has yet to approve a final business plan for the loss-making Bovale Developments.

Former assistant Dublin city and county manager George Redmond cannot sue the planning tribunal over corruption findings it made against him, the High Court has ruled.

FORMER government press secretary Frank Dunlop has been given 18 months in prison and fined €30,000 for making corrupt payments to politicians over the rezoning of land at Carrickmines in south Dublin during the 1990s.

THERE is a legal maxim of long standing that states: “He who comes into equity must come with clean hands.”

GREED is always the overriding motivation for corruption. But the tribunal formerly known as Flood — now called the Mahon Tribunal — has also shown that the ground in which greed is planted can determine whether it flourishes.