UCC’s acquisition of the Irish Management Institute (IMI) was a major driver of a 7.7% increase in the university’s income to €371.7m in 2017, according to its latest accounts.

The Dail's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is demanding answers from NUI Maynooth over the decision to write-off a €750,000 loan to a failed subsidiary company.

The new boss of the HSE has said it will break even this year despite it having a €103 million deficit at the end of March.

Nama developers have been able to buy back billions of euro worth of loans at massive discounts because of a major flaw in the laws which set the bad bank up a decade ago.

The reassurances on Nama made by the late Brian Lenihan a decade ago were a puff of smoke, writes Political Editor, Daniel McConnell.

A major flaw in the laws prohibiting the resale of properties taken over by NAMA to the developers behind them has emerged.

The sale of a portfolio of properties by Nama for €26 million was “illegal” and in breach of its own statutory act, the Dáil has heard.

Michael Clifford Taxpayers will probably foot the bill for ‘campaign of calumny’ against Maurice McCabe, writes Michael Clifford.

Government departments and bodies are paying money for nothing in a scandalous waste of public cash.

A review of policies on pay and other benefits for third-level college staff is about to begin, almost a year after it was due to commence.

Gardaí have been sent details of inconsistencies around whether proper tendering took place for work on a Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (ETB) property by a company with family links to the board’s former chief executive.

The Government’s €200m back-dated salary deal with thousands of hospital consultants will not have any knock-on benefits for lower paid public servants, a senior minister has claimed.

Former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has said she never sought to influence RTÉ coverage of the O’Higgins report into complaints from whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe, adding: “I have no idea how anybody could come to that conclusion.”

There was a time, not so long ago, when the kind of evidence heard at the Disclosures Tribunal over the last week would have caused shock and outrage.

More than €2.8m in overpayments of grants for college students were outstanding at the end of 2016.

A new cross-departmental government salary system intended to save the State money has overpaid salaries by more than €4m since it was established.

Kerry Education and Training Board spent at least €1m on goods and services without fully following rules around procurement in 2016.

Ireland is losing out on billions of euro every year because eight of the 100 most lucrative Irish-based multinationals pay no corporation tax and five more have a tax bill of less than 1%.

Eight of the 100 highest earning Irish-based multi-nationals are paying no corporation tax whatsoever, five have a tax bill of less than 1% and others are effectively being paid by the taxman because of serious loopholes in the tax system.

Severe financial oversight deficits at the National College of Art & Design have been highlighted in its latest accounts — that are already more than three years old.

Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB) says it has co-operated fully with inquiries to date around procurement and other issues that are now subject to a ministerial-appointed investigation.

Form suggests any internal Garda report needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, writes Michael Clifford

THE PAC v O’Sullivan fight has gone the full 15 rounds. But at the end of it, the Garda Commissioner is still standing in the ring, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

The Central Bank will write to the cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week in response to calls for it to investigate a privately held AIB account and the St Raphael’s credit union’s links to the garda college.

Fresh controversy has enveloped Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan after she was criticised by the State’s financial watchdog for failing to mention possible financial irregularities at Templemore Garda College in a formal accounting notification to him.

As the dust settles on Wednesday’s Public Accounts Committee hearing into Templemore College, what are the issues facing Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan when she appears before it again on June 14?

University College Cork has said it is satisfied it paid market value when it bought a former bank from a local authority for €800,000 more than its purchase price two years earlier.

The Department of Education will be grilled by TDs next month on whether it really expects religious orders to pay everything owed under a 2002 deal on the costs of redress for institutional abuse.

A new prison working rules system that officials said would save the State almost €300m over the past decade by replacing overtime has cut costs by just €8m.

The bosses of Nama have insisted there was no boardroom row over the controversial €1.6bn Project Eagle deal.

A senior Nama director has dismissed as "simply wrong" claims that Nama lost up to €210m in its controversial sale of a massive Northern Ireland property portfolio.

High-profile businessmen, celebrities, and other individuals avoiding tax by keeping more than €100,000 in off-shore accounts will be prosecuted and potentially jailed for the “criminal offence” from next May under strict new laws.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan will issue a staunch defence of any actions he took relating to the controversial Project Eagle deal when he attends a cross-party grilling today.

Nama must be held accountable for its handling of the controversial sale of a £1.2bn (€1.39bn) Northern Ireland property portfolio, the Public Accounts Committe has insisted.

A senior civil servant received a €1.119m severance package from an unknown Government department during the worst years of the recession, writes Irish Examiner Political Reporter, Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

The prospect of a cross-border Nama inquiry should not be completely ruled out, according to Stormont's finance minister.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has been urged to publish an independent report into state property body Nama as soon as he is given it next week, amid fears it could be shelved until the autumn.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has flatly rejected claims he is set to establish a commission of inquiry into state property group Nama, insisting that reports of the move are “utterly speculative” and “there is no investigation taking place”.

There is hardly an issue that better illustrates the disharmony, dysfunction and delusion undermining this society than water.

Communications Minister Alex White has defended Eircode, estimated to cost between €38m and €50m, after An Post said fewer than one in 10 letters and parcels use the new postcode.