JUDGE Liam Hamilton once said to me that he was sure he would get no thanks for exposing the malpractices in the beef industry, and all the other stuff that surrounded it.

Former investment broker Tony Taylor has been jailed for five years for defrauding four clients out of a total investment of just over IR£382,000.

A former investment broker who fled Ireland five years ago has pleaded guilty to a series of fraud charges in Dublin’s Circuit Criminal Court.