The Supreme Court will give judgment next week on the Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland’s appeal over decisions it is potentially liable for claims brought against collapsed insurer Setanta.

The future of 14,000 motor insurance policies in Ireland is in confusion after the Enterprise Insurance Company, which is regulated out of Gibraltar, was declared insolvent.

Accountancy firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has estimated it will incur legal costs of more than €30.1m in defending a claim for €800m brought against it over its auditing of Quinn Insurance Ltd (QIL).

The insurance fund into which policyholders have contributed hundreds of millions of euro made payments totalling €1.4bn to cover failed insurers over the last five years.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has been urged to call an emergency meeting over the closure of Setanta Insurance to put in place measures to ensure a repeat of the fiasco does not occur.

A leader of a get-rich-quick investment product recruiting across the country was a senior figure in a firm suspended from trading in Canada because of its pyramid-style operation.

Building, supply, mortgage and insurance firms at fault for pyrite-damaged homes have until the end of September to come up with solutions to the €450m crisis.

The Quinn Insurance takeover will be complete by mid-August after company returns revealed losses of €706m in 2009.

A top young Irish cyclist who quit competitive racing following a collision with a French team's service vehicle during an international event has lost his High Court action for damages.

Ireland today pledged €2m euro to a new international fund designed to increase business investment in Africa.

ILLEGAL quarries and concrete plants across the country are causing major environmental damage and must be closed down, according to the Irish Concrete Federation (ICF).

IRISH homes and all buildings offered for sale or rent will shortly have to come with an energy rating mark, similar to that carried on electrical appliances like washing machines and fridges.

THE cost of building a house will increase by thousands if local authorities raise certain service charges, the Irish Concrete Federation (ICF) warned yesterday.

THE Irish Concrete Federation (ICF), which represents the quarry and concrete industries, has in recent weeks taken out full page advertisements in newspapers around the country to highlight the impact of the imposition of local development charges and levies.