A Garda investigation is being carried out into a fraud at NUI Maynooth after the university reported it had been swindled out of more than €360,000.

Businessmen Michael and John O’Flynn and their company O’Flynn Construction Ltd have sued Nama, NALM, and ex-Nama employee Enda Farrell for damages over an alleged leak of confidential company information.

Donegal native Willie McAteer graduated from UCD with a BA in commerce and a master’s in business studies.

The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) said yesterday it hopes to have six forensic accountants in place by the end of the summer.

New cybercrime units, local teams to combat domestic violence and sexual assault, and a hotline to report child sex abuse are among a raft of reforms unveiled yesterday by the Garda Commissioner.

A former official with the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) who is facing jail for leaking potentially commercially sensitive information told investigators he thought he was advancing the interests of the agency.

Dublin District Court has been told that since former Anglo chief executive David Drumm went to America in 2009 he “engaged in a careful and considered and perfectly lawful attempt to ensure that this day never came”.

THE rise of internet banking has made parts of our lives a lot easier. Bills can be paid, deposits put down for holidays, transfers made between accounts — all with a swipe on your smartphone screen, writes Grainne McGuinness.

A former Bank of Ireland employee has been sent forward for trial accused of stealing €144,000 from branches in Dublin over a nine-year period.

The specialist Garda unit tasked with combating fraud and white collar crime does not have any dedicated financial analysts.

More than €240,000 has been defrauded from people in a phone scam spreading across the country.

An industrial flooring firm and one of its former directors have been sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court accused of breaking competition laws by engaging in price-fixing to win contracts.

The public has been warned to be on the lookout for a host of new scams being used by fraudsters to con consumers out of their money.

Victims of a new telephone scam hitting the country in the last couple of weeks need to report it immediately to gardaí, a senior fraud officer has said.

Almost €80,000 has been defrauded from five bank card holders in a new type of “elaborate” scam that has hit the country in the last couple of weeks.

The charges against the three were built around two separate allegations. Firstly, that they omitted the name of Mr FitzPatrick’s brother-in-law, John Peter O’Toole, from a list of non-resident accounts which was to be handed over to Revenue.

Independent TD Mick Wallace is correct in saying that the problems related to Nama have not gone away.

A claim that a Nama official asked and received a €15,000 bribe have been discussed by gardaí and Independent TD Mick Wallace.

Eight hospitals, five of them taxpayer-funded, are under investigation amid claims staff got gifts from a medical supplies firm in return for contracts and commercially sensitive information.

Gardaí are to investigate claims that a Nama official sought and received a €15,000 bribe in a bag from a construction company so it could be allowed leave the agency.

One of the biggest personnel shake-ups for years has taken place in the ranks of An Garda Siochána with six officers being promoted to the rank of chief superintendent and a further 34 inspectors elevated to superintendent.

A former Canada Life agent is to stand trial accused of theft of approximately €800,000 from investors.

Irish businesses could potentially have lost millions of euro to criminals who have targeted them using “invoice direction fraud”.

The Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation has warned businesses of a recent scam "that has the potential to cause serious financial losses".

A top business figure has been hit in a massive garda operation targeting suspec-ted money laundering.

A former Canada Life agent from Limerick is to stand trial accused of theft of approximately €270,000 from the company.

Disgraced former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm should be hauled before the banking inquiry after his failed US-protected bankruptcy application.

Ireland has launched an attempt to extradite the ex-chief of rogue lender Anglo Irish Bank after he failed to be declared bankrupt in the US.

State agencies and authorities have defended how they investigated whistleblower claims of tax evasion amid calls for a fresh inquiry into how they handled allegations against former politicians.

A seven-month suspended prison sentence and fines of €3,500 were imposed yesterday on former Minister of State Ned O’Keeffe for what the sentencing judge described as breaches of trust by a TD submitting false invoices to claim over €3,700 in mobile phone expenses.

A string of successive ministers in one of the most influential departments in government failed to adequately act on information concerning tax evasion by well-known public figures, according to potentially "explosive" claims made by a whistleblower.

A husband and wife are to stand trial in connection with the alleged theft of €1.25m from Vodafone Ireland over a four-year period.

Additional charges have been brought against a former senior executive at Vodafone Ireland who is accused of stealing almost €2m from the company over four years.

A former Anglo Irish Bank clerk has been given a suspended sentence for defrauding his employer of €200,000 while the bank was being nationalised.

A former Anglo Irish Bank clerk has been given a suspended sentence for defrauding his employer of €200,000 while the bank was being nationalised.

A former Anglo Irish Bank employee will be sentenced next week for a €200,000 computer fraud at a Limerick branch of the bank three years ago.

A 40-year-old Wexford man, who is a former senior executive at Vodafone Ireland, is to stand trial charged with stealing almost €2m from the company over a four-year period.

Two women are due to be sentenced shortly for their parts in a European-wide scam that led to more than €300,000 being stolen from eBay customers.

The Garda fraud squad is to be called in once a "scoping" investigation has been conducted into a suspected €400,000 fraud at a credit union.