The man accused of money-laundering told investigators that he considered burning the millions of pounds of sterling that he had in the basement of his home in Cork, it emerged today.

STAFF staging a sit-in over unpaid wages following the closure of a nursing home blocked a hospital supply company from entering the residential complex and removing items yesterday.

OUTRAGED nursing home staff staging a 30-day sit-in over non-payment of wages learned yesterday their boss — who had claimed he had no money to pay them — has wed in a lavish ceremony.

SPECIALIST garda officers are to fly out to Bulgaria to examine bank accounts held by an Irish businessman arrested last week as part of the investigation into suspected IRA money laundering.

GARDAÍ yesterday said it could take months before files are sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to people arrested as part of the money-laundering investigation.

MILLIONS more in laundered IRA cash will be uncovered in an investigation that could last at least six months, garda sources said last night.

A GARDA forensic team yesterday removed a cache of sterling notes from the home of a man arrested for questioning as part of a major investigation into money laundering.

Police are investigating a possible link between a woman’s murder and the death of a man on a Co Antrim railway line, it was confirmed today.