A High Court judge wants the Garda Fraud Squad to investigate why 13 families who must leave their homes within a week were paying rent to a unknown third party.

A former publican claimed in the High Court a former AIB investment manager stole from her and defrauded her of her investment in the pub.

A Carlow solicitor, who took out a fraudulent mortgage after his father’s law firm got into trouble with the Law Society, will be sentenced next week.

WE have, since Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis as one of the most powerful tools in self-realisation just over a century ago, myriad ways of trying to make ourselves comfortable in our skins, of trying to make ourselves fit into the world we find ourselves flickering through like a fairy light blinking on a Christmas tree. 

A former director of a children’s charity has claimed CCTV footage he has given to gardaí will contradict a claim by the charity’s founder that a theft took place from its ambulance at last year’s National Ploughing Championships.

St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin has been heavily criticised by the Oireachtas Health Committee for failing to appear before it in relation to serious allegations about its procurement practices.

The chief executive of a children’s charity from which four directors resigned last week citing governance concerns has rejected suggestions of financial impropriety or any attempt by him to block a governance review.

Covert recordings of Gary O’Flynn asking for help to hire a hitman to murder a fraud squad detective, a taxman and an accountant became the key evidence in the case where he was jailed yesterday for three years.

ormer Fianna Fáil councillor and solicitor Gary O’Flynn is to be sentenced in April after confessing to charges of soliciting someone to murder three people — a garda fraud squad, a Revenue Commissioner, and an accountant.

The court heard that Breifne O’Brien’s deceptions first began to come to light when an allegation was made during civil proceedings in 2008 and Mr Justice Peter Kelly referred the matter to the Garda fraud squad.

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.

A solicitor and financial adviser has been put on trial on charges related to the alleged theft of thousands of euro made by two people who turned to him for advice on dealing with repaying their debts.

The acquittal of bankrupt former banker Seán FitzPatrick has not ended his struggles with the criminal justice system.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick told gardaí he was aware the bank would be lending money to the Maple Ten group of investors before the allegedly illegal transaction went through.

Gardaí in County Leitrim have arrested a 49-year-old man as part of a €4m investment fraud and related money laundering investigation.

The Garda fraud squad could be called in to investigate breaches of company law at the Central Remedial Clinic following fresh revelations about payments to its former chief executive using charity funds.

A man in his 40s will appear in court this morning charged in connection with theft and fraud offences at a financial institution.

It is claimed a NAMA official has admitted leaking classified information to overseas financiers.

A leading expert in cyber crime says criminal organisations could breach most security systems, no matter how sophisticated they are.

Two students, who hacked Fine Gael's 2011 election website, were spared jail sentences today and have been left with clean records.

The Garda Fraud squad has issued a warning about phishing emails.

Two students have admitted hacking Fine Gael’s website in the weeks leading up to the 2011 general election as a “stunt” to embarrass the party.

Taped phone calls from inside the walls of the bust Anglo Irish Bank have so far revealed the attitudes of just three key players.

Bank of Ireland said no client funds have been impacted by an internal inquiry in its private banking division.

The bank stress tests will be held in two phases with an asset quality review scheduled for later this year followed by stress tests in the first half of next year, the deputy governor of the Central Bank, Matthew Elderfield, said.

An ex-politician arrested for allegedly trying to hire a hitman to kill a garda, a Revenue official, and an accountant, may have been trying to prevent a probe into allegations that he had defrauded a number of people living in Cork.

The Department of Agriculture is building an investigation with the help of gardaí into the origin of horsemeat in Irish burgers with the anticipation of future legal and compensation cases.

The Garda Fraud Squad has been called in to investigate the deepening horsemeat scandal after beef product at a Monaghan processing plant was found to contain 75% equine DNA.

There is growing impatience with the pace of the investigation into the former Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS), which was nationalised after a bailout of €5.4bn in 2010.

The Junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes has described supporters of Sean Quinn as "blinded and misguided".

The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation will only know what the implications of a restructuring of the €29bn in promissory notes will have on the bank when the deal is finalised, chief executive Mike Aynsley told the Oireachtas Finance Committee yesterday.

The Garda Fraud Squad are assessing whether to launch an full investigation into a Waterford-based pilot school which collapsed leaving 180 trainees, who had paid up to €80,000 each in fees, stranded in Florida.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive and chairman Seán FitzPatrick could be facing further criminal prosecutions in addition to the 16 charges he was handed down before the Dublin District Court yesterday.

The Government will not be able to refund fees to trainee pilots caught up in the closure of their course because it could mean other creditors demanding similar treatment — with a potential cost to the taxpayer of millions of euro.

It looks increasingly unlikely that the Government will make a decision on which Oireachtas sub-committee will carry out the bank inquiry before the Dáil rises for summer recess on July 19.

Nama is pursuing legal action against nine property developers who failed to make full disclosure of their assets to the agency.

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has said that the garda investigation into Anglo Irish Bank is substantially complete.

Former Fianna Fáil Minister of State Ivor Callely has been arrested by gardaí in Dublin today.

BISHOP John Magee’s bid to cover the cost of child abuse claims was bolstered by two controversial takeover deals for local radio services in the county.

WHAT do you have to do to get arrested in this town? Last week, Judge Peter Kelly voiced a sentiment that resonates with a large chunk of the populace. He is not pleased with the progress of investigations into white-collar crime.

The High Court will rule today whether to grant more time to an investigation into Anglo Irish Bank.

SPECIALIST fraud gardaí are still trawling through the Moriarty Tribunal report in a bid to establish if a formal investigation into the financial affairs of Independent TD Michael Lowry is warranted.