Two former senior executives of Anglo Irish Bank are to face criminal prosecution later this year after becoming the first individuals to be charged in the long-running investigation into financial irregularities at the zombie bank.

One of the top bankers in the former rogue lender Anglo Irish Bank has been charged in Ireland with a string of fraud offences.

THE Supreme Court has ruled a binding contract exists under which a building contractor was to be paid a maximum €15.3 million to construct a housing scheme in Co Wicklow.

AN order preventing a mechanical engineering firm from petitioning to have a building firm it claims owes them money from being wound up has been granted.