A BUSINESSMAN and prominent auctioneer yesterday told a court he had been “grossly injured” by false reports that he was being pursued by Anglo Irish Bank for debts of€1.49 million.

IRELAND’S EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy has admitted he has not read all of the Lisbon treaty, and said the majority of the population would not be able to understand the complex document.

AN arson attack on a family home which left a mother and father dead was the result of a campaign of bullying against their teenage daughter, her brother claimed yesterday.