From the top of the agri-business tree in the 1980s, through to the turbulent 90s and his subsequent resurgence in the beef industry, Larry Goodman will face the latest meat crisis in his usual fashion — head on, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

SOMETIMES, the circus gets out of hand. Last Sunday, a Government minister decried the slow rate of progress in criminal investigations into the banking collapse and the results from tribunal reports.

The Cabinet is set to discuss moves to reduce the fees paid to lawyers at the Mahon Tribunal when it holds its weekly meeting later today.

IN THE concluding paragraph of my book, Haughey’s 40 Years of Controversy, I wrote that in the end he “probably destroyed his political legacy. It was a great pity because he was unquestionably a very talented politician”.

FORMER supermarket boss Ben Dunne — who admitted giving the late Taoiseach Charles J Haughey up to £2 million — is due to give evidence to the Mahon Tribunal now investigating the rezoning of land near Dublin Airport.

THE former supermarket tycoon Ben Dunne, yesterday said he blamed his own behaviour on causing some of the hurt and humiliation endured by Charles Haughey in the last decade of his life.

WHEN Denis Foley’s name appeared in Revenue’s list of settlements made by tax defaulters there was an air of inevitability to it; almost weariness.

Seán McCárthaigh

THE FLOOD Tribunal’s damning verdict on Ray Burke again raises questions about Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s judgement in choosing one of his key lieutenants.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern suffered a double blow last night as two of his political confidants were condemned in the findings of a marathon inquiry into corruption by the Flood Tribunal.