Disgraced former politician Ivor Callely has dodged another stint in jail after finally settling a long-running debt.

After failing to turn up for a court action to have him jailed, former politician Ivor Callely has handed himself in, more than week after judge issued a warrant for his arrest.

A lawyer for an accountancy firm which sought to jail former politician Ivor Callely over an unpaid debt has rejected a statement that the case had been already settled by the time a court issued an arrest warrant.

A judge has ordered the arrest of former TD Ivor Callely, who failed to turn up to court to face an action to have him jailed for non-payment of a debt.

An ex-Fianna Fáil politician and Minster of State who admitted fraudulently claiming €4,207.45 in expenses from the Oireachtas on forged mobile phone invoices, has withdrawn his appeal against sentence.

Former TD and minister Ivor Callely will not have to return to prison following the State’s decision to allow him enhanced remission on the prison sentence he received for fraudulently claiming Oireachtas expenses on forged mobile phone invoices.

The State must pay the legal costs of former politician Ivor Callely’s successful High Court challenge over the minister for justice’s refusal to grant him enhanced remission from a jail sentence for fraudulently claiming Oireachtas expenses.

Former senator Ivor Callely has won a High Court action challenging a decision to refuse him early release from a five-month prison sentence imposed over fraudulently claiming Oireachtas expenses.

Former politician Ivor Callely has claimed he is “being punished twice” by not being considered suitable for early release from a sentence imposed over fraudulently claiming expenses, the High Court heard yesterday.

Former politician Ivor Callely is to be allowed travel to Scotland after the High Court yesterday varied the terms of his bail.

Jailed former senator Ivor Callely has been granted bail at the High Court, pending the outcome of his challenge to the refusal of the minister for justice to grant him temporary release from prison.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely is granted bail while the High Court reviews his remission status.

Jailed former politician Ivor Callely has launched a High Court action to get out of prison.

Former Junior Minister Ivor Callely claims he is being kept in jail unfairly over fears his early release would attract unwanted media attention.

Ivor Callely will be out of 23-hour lock up as early as today and will be given a job tending the grounds at Wheatfield Prison, it has emerged.

Jailed Ivor Callely has reportedly been moved to the medical unit of Mountjoy Prison.

I’VE surprised myself by feeling a little sorry for former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely this week.

Ivor Callely is spending his first night in jail. But has justice has been done?

Ivor Callely is on his way to a prison in west Dublin and could end up in a double cell — sharing a toilet and living space with another inmate.

From leafy Clontarf to a little cell in C Block, from a Victorian red-brick residence to a Victorian prison, Ivor Callely will wonder whether the €4,000 was worth it.

WHILE some politicians like to quote Marx or JFK, Ivor Callely is more of a ‘Kung Fu Panda’ kind of guy, telling a Seanad probe into his expenses: "Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery."

Ivor Callely will continue to receive a pension of almost €1,000 a week from the State as he begins a five-month jail term for fake expense claims during his time as senator.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely has been jailed for five months for fraudulently claiming mobile expenses while he was a senator after a judge ruled that his position at the time was an aggravating factor in the case.

ONE word stood out from the judgment that sent Ivor Callely to prison for five months yesterday. Entitlement.

Former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely, who was sent to jail yesterday over fraudulent mobile phone expenses claims, came, maybe even unjustly, to epitomise the hubris and disdain a certain type of politician expressed so very freely for what most people consider decent, common-garden honesty. His arrogance was as unfettered and boundless as his character was transparent.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely has been jailed for five months for fraudulently claiming mobile expenses at Leinster House while he was a senator.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely will be sentenced on Monday for fraudulently claiming mobile-phone expenses at Leinster House while he was a senator.

Ivor Callely's sentencing for claiming over €4,000 fake mobile phone expenses has been adjourned until Monday morning.

The sentencing hearing of former junior minister Ivor Callely has heard he made over €4,000 from claiming false mobile phone expenses.

Former Junior Minister Ivor Callely has pleaded guilty to a further three charges relating to false mobile phone expenses claims.

The Oireachtas has been told to overhaul its ethics rules and tighten up the travel expenses regime for politicians following a Supreme Court ruling against a former Fianna Fáil senator.

A Seanad committee has won an appeal against a High Court ruling which had found in favour of former senator Ivor Callely over his expenses.

The Oireachtas has welcomed a court decision that a committee was entitled to make findings against a senator after he misrepresented his normal place of residence for expense purposes.

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Seanad committee who suspended former Senator Ivor Callely over his expenses.

A trial date has been set for former Junior Minister Ivor Callely in relation to allegations of making bogus mobile phone expense claims.

Former Fianna Fáil senator Ivor Callely has consented to an €11m judgment being entered against him at the High Court.

Former Fianna Fáil minister of state Ivor Callely has been returned for trial accused of making a series of bogus mobile phone expense claims when he was a member of Seanad.

The Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a High Court order overturning a decision to suspend former Senator Ivor Callely over his expenses claims.

Former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely is to stand trial accused of making a series of bogus mobile phone expense claims when he was a member of the Seanad.

FORMER junior roads minister Ivor Callely has always had something of the one-man political car crash about him.

Former Junior Minister Ivor Callely has been released on bail this afternoon after being charged with six counts of fraud at Dublin District Court.

Former Junior Minister and Fianna Fáil TD Ivor Callely has been arrested in connection with alleged fraud.

Deputy Mick Wallace was expected to make a statement to the Dáil yesterday about his tax-dodging and maybe his multi-million euro failed loans, but yesterday’s decision by Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett ruling out any such mea maxima culpa matinee precluded that enthralling possibility.

For now, at least, Mick Wallace says he will not resign from the Dáil.