A leading TD has “worries”, because the chair of the probe into IBRC once acted against the former Anglo bank. However, Catherine Murphy, joint leader of the Social Democrats, did not call for Judge Brian Cregan to step down, though the IBRC deals cost the taxpayer €10m.

Does the Taoiseach really not understand the laws of this country, or does he just think they are there to be twisted to his will whenever he faces a spot of bother, asks Shaun Connolly

LAST year, when the excitement around the appointment of Seanad hopeful and Donegal petrol station owner John McNulty to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art died down, the Government knew that it could ill-afford another self-inflicted, embarrassing, and stinking-to-high-heaven controversy.

THERE is growing concern around a number of IBRC transactions, including the 2012 sale of Siteserv to a company controlled by plutocrat Denis O’Brien.