Developer Jim Mansfield, who made his fortune selling scrap metal from the Falklands War, was laid to rest yesterday in his home town of Saggart, Dublin, surrounded by his family and a wide circle of friends.

It has emerged in the Commercial Court that developer Jim Mansfield is suffering from a rare disease of the nervous system called multiple system atrophy.

NAMA has this evening appointed a receiver to assets owned by developer Jim Mansfield.

WESTON Aerodrome’s appeal against An Bord Pleanála’s rejection of its application to turn former farmyard buildings on its lands into aircraft hangars was been dismissed.