A FIVE-JUDGE Supreme Court will hear on December 8 the appeal by Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy and public affairs correspondent Colm Keena against a High Court order requiring them to answer questions from the Mahon tribunal.

THE editor of The Irish Times, Geraldine Kennedy, and the newspaper’s public affairs correspondent, Colm Keena, are to launch a Supreme Court appeal in a bid to prevent them having to disclose to the Mahon Tribunal the source of information about financial payments to Bertie Ahern during the early 1990s.

NEWS coverage of the departure of Steve Staunton as manager of Ireland’s soccer team was quite a spectacle. RTÉ was scathing about the supposedly “shambolic” way in which things were handled at the end.

WE ARE lucky to live in a country where the press has enjoyed circumstances that, by and large, allow it to do its job without hindrance or threat.

Two prominent journalists were today ordered by the High Court to testify before a tribunal on the source of a story about payments to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

THE Irish Times destroyed documents relating to an article disclosing that financial payments had been made to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern when he was Finance Minister in 1993 because it believed that was “the proper action” to take, the High Court has been told.

THE likelihood of Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy and journalist Colm Keena going to prison diminished greatly yesterday when no motion for committal to prison was brought by the Mahon Tribunal over the controversial Bertie Ahern “dig-out” payments story.

FORMER taoiseach Albert Reynolds allegedly got the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) to block developer Tom Gilmartin’s plans to acquire lands for a proposed shopping complex, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

A LOSING consortium in the bid for Ireland’s second mobile phone licence has been accused of using the Moriarty Tribunal as a “stalking horse” for a massive compensation claim against the State.

THE Mahon Tribunal has failed to identify who leaked a confidential letter that triggered the September political crisis involving Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

AT the opening of the Cleraun media conference in Dublin last Saturday, Communications Minister Noel Dempsey was forceful in criticising The Irish Times for breaking the story about the money given to Bertie Ahern.

THE Mahon Tribunal is to seek a High Court order to compel Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy and staff journalist Colm Keena to reveal the sources behind their story which revealed that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern received payments from businessmen when he was Minister for Finance in 1993.

The Mahon Tribunal is due to reveal today if it plans to take any action against the Irish Times over the newspaper's articles about payments to the Taoiseach.

THE editor of The Irish Times Geraldine Kennedy yesterday stood over her decision to publish the story that triggered the political crisis engulfing Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

The implications of his satisfactory mature recollection over this weekend will be critical to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his survival, possibly, and maybe that of the coalition government which he currently leads.

The Irish Times journalist who wrote the article regarding payments to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has refused to reveal his sources to the Mahon Tribunal today.

The editor of the Irish Times and the newspaper's public affairs correspondent are due before the Mahon Tribunal today to explain the leak that has left the Taoiseach in major political trouble.

IRISH TIMES editor Geraldine Kennedy and the paper’s public affairs correspondent Colm Keena are to appear before the Mahon Planning Tribunal this morning over their leak of payments to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

The editor of the Irish Times and one of the newspaper's correspondents have been summoned to appear before the Mahon Tribunal later this week.

FORMER Fine Gael Minister Michael Lowry will be grilled today over alleged attempts to cover-up his role in a property deal linked to business tycoon Denis O'Brien.