Shares in wealth and pensions adviser Quilter, which in Ireland competes with Davy, Goodbody, and other firms, surged on the first day of trading after a Sunday newspaper reported it could be snapped up.

A former Garda sergeant who investigated a claim of child sexual abuse by two men, one associated with a Garda superintendent, is suing the Garda commissioner and State over an alleged campaign of bullying and harassment of him in which he alleges a different Garda superintendent played a prominent role.