A Supreme Court judge is warning that there is a "real risk" the courts will be unable to administer justice in line with the Constitution and European Convention on Human Rights unless more resources, including judges, are provided.

Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan said delays in having appeals heard by the Court of Appeal are "not acceptable" and are a result of an insufficient number of judges.

NAMA has funded or facilitated the delivery of over 14,000 new homes since the start of 2014, according to the National Asset Management Agency's Annual Report and Financial Statements which were released today.

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A popular Cork City gym that went into liquidation this month owing €625,000 is now debt free and more attractive to potential buyers, according to the liquidator.

The number of high fliers at the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) and the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) paid more than €100,000 has jumped by six, to 246, writes Gordon Deegan.

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The so-called bad bank set up to clear toxic property loans from five banks is to wipe out its €30 billion debt three years ahead of schedule.

LEO VARADKAR, making his first visit to Cork as Taoiseach, brought good news from Dublin yesterday, when at a Chamber of Commerce and Irish Examiner business breakfast he announced that planning work on the long-awaited Cork-Limerick motorway was at last to be started.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

Michael Noonan’s tenure as Finance Minister and Enda Kenny’s tenure as Taoiseach are both about to end over the coming days, writes Jim Power. 

The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) redeemed €952m of Senior Notes today, repaying bonds issued to borrowers during Ireland's recession.

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The number of staff at the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) and National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) who were paid over €100,000 last year rose to 240 from some 223 in 2015.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will today hear from top officials at the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) who dealt with the controversial Project Eagle sale.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s decision to freeze local property tax rates until 2019 has been slammed by the European Commission as a “lost opportunity” to broaden the tax base.

A Stormont scrutiny committee has called on the North's Finance Minister to stand aside pending the outcome of a probe into a party colleague's backchannel contact with an inquiry witness.

Stormont's Finance Minister has insisted he knew nothing of a party colleague's controversial contact with a witness to an inquiry into the North's largest ever property deal.

Sinn Féin has suspended a party member after he allegedly made contact with a witness to an inquiry into the North's largest ever property deal.

Sinn Féin has suspended a party member after he allegedly made contact with a witness to an inquiry into the North's largest ever property deal.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan and the National Asset Management Agency have strongly endorsed the auction process behind the sale of the so-called Project Eagle loans.

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The National Asset Management Agency has started a “root-and-branch review” of its operations as part of a planned restructuring.

The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) says it does not have the units available in Dublin to solve the crisis of families in emergency accommodation.

A former National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) official has been handed a two-year suspended sentence for passing on confidential information.

A former official with the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) who is facing jail for leaking potentially commercially sensitive information told investigators he thought he was advancing the interests of the agency.

In the eyes of the European Commission, Ireland is both star performer and naughty boy. But its warnings ought to be heeded, says Kyran Fitzgerald

ONE of the silly habits we indulge in instead of real, game-changing, reforming action is the cynical idea that making rules to try to prevent some sort of behaviour, or more likely misbehaviour, resolves whatever problem the solution is aimed at.

Almost one quarter of the workforce at the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) have looked to leave the State’s bad bank as it edges towards its winding-down date.

The Government and State agencies have paid consultants €152m for advice on the banking crisis.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has revealed that the Coalition may hike taxes in next month’s budget to help increase Government spending.

The building firm established by the Bailey brothers remains in discussions with the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) over finalising a business plan.

Lawyers in the North were warned not to divulge details about a billion-euro property controversy minutes before they appeared before a Stormont scrutiny committee, MLAs have heard.

The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, rather appropriately, is sometimes referred to as the ‘toxic bank’.

IT WAS back to the future yesterday at the Public Accounts Committee hearing. Strange goings on at the interface of business and politics. Middlemen pulling in serious bucks. Offshore accounts. Apparent conflict of interest.

The key players of the Nama scandal

The chairman of Nama has been accused of “failing to protect the public interest” amid calls for an all-island inquiry into alleged payoffs that were part of the agency’s biggest ever property deal.

Brian Cowen said he never breached the public’s trust when he was taoiseach, as he outlined to the banking inquiry how Ireland was pressurised into entering a bailout programme.