IBRC’s special liquidators have bought out its partner in the controversial joint-venture it established nearly three years ago to recover key Quinn family assets in Russia and Ukraine, for $34m (€31m).

More than 1,000 free parking spaces will be made available in Cork City in the run-up to Christmas in a bid to boost trade.

A number of businesses in Dublin city centre are set to challenge the College Green Bus Gate scheme in the High Court today.