BORD na gCon, according to a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, has a history of litigation that cost the semi-state body in excess of €3.9 million in the period 2000-2006.

THE taxpayer was hit with another massive Bord na gCon pay-out yesterday after a senior executive with the company settled for a near €1 million package after agreeing to withdraw a bullying action against the former Greyhound Board boss Paschal Taggart and two others.