Jim Nugent, who famously gave a “dig-out” to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has had the €1.3m D4 apartment at Haseldene, Ballsbridge, handed back to a bank.

A total of 290 property repossession cases came before the Cork County Registrar at the courthouse on Washington Street in the past month.

A FIRM of solicitors retained by a bank to act for it concerning substantial loans to property developer John Kelly and struck-off solicitor Thomas Byrne is being sued for €23 million over an alleged failure to ensure the bank had proper security related to those loans.