ANGLO Irish Bank’s decision to advance €68 million to Liam Carroll’s struggling Zoe Group to finish the bank’s new headquarters in Dublin was made before the bank was nationalised, according to Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

The Liam Carroll-controlled Zoe Group will return to solvency when the Irish property market improves in 18 months time, the High Court heard today.

A number of banks who are owed millions of euro by companies controlled by developer Liam Carroll have said they are willing to lend the companies more money if a scheme of arrangement is put in place.

The leader of the Labour party has called for the Attorney General to apply to the High Court for the right to nominate lawyers to protect the public interest in the upcoming case to decide if an Examiner should be appointed to Liam Carroll's Zoe Group.

A second attempt by the Liam Carroll-controlled Zoe Group to be placed into examinership will be heard by the High Court next week.

A High Court judge has allowed companies in the Liam Carroll-controlled Zoe Group a second chance to seek to be placed into examinership.

A sick and hospitalised Liam Carroll and the fellow directors of the Zoe group were granted leave of the High Court tonight to present a new petition seeking the appointment of an examiner to the troubled property group.

Property developer Liam Carroll is reportedly set to make a fresh bid for court protection today in a last-ditch effort to prevent the collapse of his property empire.

THE Carroll case judgment exposes a “fatal flaw” in the structure of NAMA which could end up seeing the taxpayer forking out billions of euro over the odds for bad land debts, Fine Gael warned last night.

WITHIN hours of the Supreme Court decision on Tuesday evening to withdraw court protection from companies in Liam Carroll’s Zoe Group the High Court — inevitably — appointed a provisional liquidator to two Zoe companies.

The High Court today appointed a provisional liquidator to two companies in the Liam Carroll-controlled Zoe group.

Shares in Ireland's two main banks are down this morning amid market concern about the impact of property developer Liam Carroll's failed Supreme Court bid for court protection.

THE barrister representing property developer Liam Carroll acknowledged readily the application to have an examiner appointed to six of his companies was a measure “to buy time”.

IRISH Nationwide Building Society has secured a €78 million summary judgment order against Aifca, a company controlled by property developer Liam Carroll, over unpaid loans.