The Central Bank has spent €119m on professional fees since 2011, including expenditure of €27.55m last year.

Blighted by bad habits and irregularities, BCU suffered restrictions that made it impossible to survive, writes Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan

A host of firms are in line for lucrative work from Nama to help the agency evaluate and monitor its debtors.

THE Central Bank is sending financial experts to each of the state’s 414 credit unions — holding €12 billion in customer deposits — to stress-test their capability to withstand further bad loan write-offs.