Receivers must vacate a Dublin pub they took over on Thursday so it can continue to trade during this weekend’s Ireland-Italy rugby international, the High Court has ruled.

Having been the hotbed of financial activity in Ireland for the past 25 years Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre is now a key component of a developing financial technology sector here, alongside native technical expertise.

Some 150 jobs are to be created with the expansion of two companies in Dublin and Shannon.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that the estimated tax paid by companies operating out of the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), in Dublin, totalled over €950 million in 2013.

Balanced regional development – the Late, Late Show of regional planning with something for everyone in the audience – will ultimately fail Rural Ireland, argue Dr Brian Hughes and Dr Lorcan Sirr.

An Irish property investment company has secured a €90.7m deal to buy adjoining office buildings in the heart of Dublin’s financial district.

The Hibernia REIT has paid €47m for New Century House in Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) which houses Bank of Ireland.

The creditors of liquidated stockbroking firm Bloxham could get 40% of what they are owed, rather than 10%, if the liquidator wins his challenge to the Irish Stock Exchange’s decision to revoke its membership, the High Court has heard.

The Irish solar energy firm BNRG Renewables is investing in a €35m, 20mw solar park in the UK, with construction set to begin next month.

IDA Ireland, charged with winning overseas investment for the country, is backing plans to develop a shipping-finance centre in Dublin, bidding to emulate the city’s position as an international aviation leasing hub.

FORMER Taoiseach John Bruton keeps grabbing the headlines. Two weeks ago, on this page, I deplored his intervention into the abortion debate, one that could have caused unnecessary difficulty for Enda Kenny, the first Fine Gael leader to follow Bruton as Taoiseach.

JOHN Bruton is retired from active politics.

Bloxham Stockbrokers in liquidation was yesterday given permission by the High Court to legally challenge a decision to revoke Bloxham’s membership of the Irish Stock Exchange.

Bank of America is in talks with regulators to transfer about $50bn (€37bn) of its derivatives business from its Irish unit into its UK operation, according to sources.

John Bruton sees the abortion issue as one of human rights, writes John Riordan in New York

Michael Clifford says John Bruton’s call to avoid scapegoating individuals is a bit rich considering the elite has made no gesture of reparation to the public

Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar yesterday revealed a tax-incentivised aviation model at Shannon Airport as the most likely model the Government is to pursue for the airport.

Irish-based banks’ reliance on emergency funding fell to the lowest level in almost 18 months at the end of January after borrowings from the European Central Bank shrank by 14% on the previous month, data showed yesterday.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has ruled out accepting an EU-backed transaction tax on Irish financial services unless the levy is introduced in Britain and other states.

A TAX on all financial transactions through banks and financial institutions, being pushed by France and Germany, will put Ireland in a difficult position politically and could have serious repercussions for the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC).

Gardaí in Dublin are responding to a spate of iPhone thefts in the capital.

THE Government is targeting the creation of 10,000 jobs in international financial businesses linked to the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) over the next five years.

A new survey suggests some green shoots of recovery in Ireland's financial services sector.

WE had some good news this week, so let’s acknowledge it here and now.

IBEC and the IFSC have both weighed in on the debate over the prospect of Ireland having to raise its corporate tax rate in return for a bailout agreement, saying such a move would be “counter-productive” and “against basic EU policy”.

The International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in Dublin is thriving and a huge boost to the Irish economy, according to a new report.

Students are to highlight the plight of graduates forced to emigrate for work with a demonstration at the Jeanie Johnston famine ship in Dublin, it emerged today.

AN early taste of higher education is helping disadvantaged and migrant teenagers make up their minds about going to college.

INSURANCE giant Zurich is set to boost its Irish workforce to over 1,000 by the end of this year.

A LEADING Irish economist welcomed the decision for no immediate bail-out of Greece, warning that any such move could be to the detriment of all euro countries, including Ireland.

UP to €4.7 million is to be invested in a new financial mathematics research centre by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the Government body responsible for funding core industrial and other research.

THEORY is never as much fun as practice which is why Colm McCarthy has a head start on most academics when he takes the podium in lecture halls.

THE Government is under fire for stalling a decision to release just €2.3 million to help kickstart the State’s largest urban regeneration scheme.

THE proposed changes in financial regulation must send a clear signal to international markets that “Ireland is serious about repairing its regulatory system”.

IRELAND and Luxembourg have been isolated in their bid to prevent mutual funds being managed centrally amid fears that they would both lose business to the bigger financial centres.

The Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, is reportedly working on an economic recovery plan aimed at attracting more foreign investment to Ireland.

The sun came out today after days of heavy rains as Ireland’s first urban beach was unveiled in the heart of Dublin’s bustling financial district.

IRELAND’S Catholic Church has endured over two decades of deserved criticism, facing well-founded accusations of hypocrisy and sheltering the most reprehensible individuals and practices, of hurting many of the most vulnerable people entrusted to its care.

FEDERATION of International Banks in Ireland (FIBI) chairman, Michael Deeny has warned against complacency in the bid to keep Ireland a leading player in the international banking industry.

CHARLES HAUGHEY misappropriated at least £45,000 from funds raised to cover the late Brian Lenihan’s medical expenses and may, in fact, have taken as much as £194,000.

WHEN Dermot Desmond bought the near-bankrupt London City Airport from the building firm John Mowlem he probably didn’t believe that 11 years later it would net him a profit of a cool €1 billion.

Yesterday, former Taoiseach Charles Haughey departed the political stage, ushered to eternal rest by the panoply of the State funeral he was accorded, but the spirit of the man he was will linger indefinitely.

Charles J Haughey’s political career stuttered at first with an embarrassing defeat in a by-election in the 1950s.

An Tánaiste Mary Harney has expressed her sympathies to Mr Haughey's family on his death this morning.