POLITICAL donations to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael from one of the country’s biggest property developers totalled €3,700 last year as it posted pre-tax losses of €23.8 million.

The country's largest business campus has created 406 new jobs this year.

PLANS for a private day care hospital have been given the green light by Limerick City Council.

PROPERTY companies were the standout donors to political parties ahead of their last election campaign, a probe of accounts can reveal.

FIANNA FÁIL has failed to disclose to the ethics watchdog tens of thousands of euro in corporate donations.

CONSTRUCTION is set to begin on a new spur of the Luas, which will bring tracks through west Tallaght and further down the N7.

HARCOURT Developments and Heritage Properties were among the winners of the Allianz Business2Arts awards, which were presented in Dublin last night by President Mary McAleese.

THE National Roads Authority will have to pick up the bill for a new section of Luas that will have to be built as part of a €244 million project to upgrade an 8km stretch of the M50.

THE chairman of Northern Ireland’s Policing Board yesterday resigned from the board of a Dublin-owned property company to distance himself from the garda probe into alleged IRA money laundering.

The chairman of the North's Policing Board has resigned from a property development firm as a result of the ongoing garda investigation into alleged money-laundering in the Republic.

EMBATTLED industrial relations troubleshooter, Phil Flynn agreed to step down as a non-executive director of an overseas property company yesterday.

BANK of Scotland has moved swiftly to fill the gap of chairman of their Irish business following the sudden departure of Phil Flynn.

McInerney Holdings have reported pre-tax profits of €20.6m for 2002, but managing director Barry O'Connor has denied plans for a possible management buyout.