THE two articles which won awards for Irish Examiner journalists at yesterday’s ESB National Media Awards ceremony in Dublin provided a major embarrassment for a leading financial institution and a senior Government minister.

THE controversy surrounding Bank of Ireland’s funding of a publisher of pornographic magazines was finally put to bed yesterday when the bank confirmed it had transferred its €7 million loan to Remnant Media to another bank.

BANK OF IRELAND has emerged as the major financial backer of a British company planning to become the first pornography distributors to float on the London Stock Exchange.