Newtownshandrum 3-18 Blackrock 1-18: A dynamic display from Newtownshandrum in Mallow yesterday saw them advance to a Cork SHC quarter-final tie with Glen Rovers.

The row between then taoiseach Brian Cowen and his finance minister, Brian Lenihan, on the night of the bank guarantee concerned whether or not to include Anglo Irish Bank in the cover, the banking inquiry will be told on Thursday.

The 2008 bank guarantee could have been avoided or changed if the government accepted a €10bn offer from other banks to temporarily keep Anglo Irish Bank afloat.

Anglo Irish Bank asked Bank of Ireland to take it over while the Central Bank also asked BoI to consider buying Irish Life and Permanent in the hours before the September 2008 bank guarantee.

The mystery over why Anglo and Irish Nationwide were included in the blanket bank guarantee deepened after another senior banker said yesterday that he advised the Government not to include the stricken firms in the deal.

The former chairman of AIB has claimed the bank had no role in drafting the bank guarantee and that no bank could have stopped the bubble.

Dermot Gleeson came before the banking inquiry not to make excuses but to provide explanations.

Senior managers at AIB were getting €100,000 annual bonuses during the property boom, despite the fact the lender was breaching financial regulator rules.

Ireland will need to turn to "bailed out" Nama developers to tackle our escalating housing crisis, despite the fact the vast majority have failed to repay billions of euro they still owe to the State.

Former taoiseach Brian Cowen last night said there was never any question of his overruling finance minister Brian Lenihan’s views at the time of the State bank guarantee of 2008.

Dáil officials are set to ramp up security surrounding the ongoing banking inquiry due to the sensitive and “confidential” nature of the documents it is examining.

The planned construction of a criminal courthouse at Anglesea St, Cork, will create up to 170 building jobs.

A blind 13-year-old boy who sued over an alleged delay in operating on him when he had a potentially blinding eye disorder at birth, has settled his damages action for €3.2m.

Na Piarsaigh 3-15 Newtownshandrum 0-14

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien has won a battle with Revenue that saves him paying nearly €57m in capital gains tax.

Newtownshandrum 2-27 Ballymartle 2-23 (after extra time)

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien is fighting a bid by Revenue to overturn a decision that he was not liable to pay nearly €57m in tax in Ireland around the same time he started living in Portugal.

Niall O’Farrell this week saw the business he founded in the mid-1980s, the formal suit hire firm Blacktie, fall into liquidation. The Dragons’ Den star will be hoping his investments on the show pay off soon, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Greek and British businessmen at the centre of a mass property fraud have been found guilty of swindling £740m (€891m) from AIB.

Ireland’s judges — who saw their pay slashed last year in an emphatically supported referendum — still earned a €35.68m salaries, pensions and other payments bonanza throughout 2011.

AIB gave “unusually favourable” terms to Dublin-based Green Property to take an €800m property portfolio off its hands, former chairman Dermot Gleeson has told jurors at Southwark Crown Court in London.

Allied Irish Bank lent £98m (€123.5m) to an alleged fraudster on the back of dodgy guarantees from a top Chinese property firm, a London court heard yesterday.

The superintendent who got warrants to inspect and search the Rock Bingo hall in Togher, Cork city, said yesterday that he acted on the advice of the office of the Attorney General.

Garda raids on the 1,000-seater Rock Bingo hall in Togher were blamed by the proprietor for putting off big charities from holding their fundraising events at the premises at the High Court in Cork yesterday.

THE 1,000-seater Rock Bingo hall in Togher, Cork, which has been dogged by legal issues for several months was effectively given the go-ahead to operate by Mr Justice Frank Clarke at the High Court yesterday.

A GARDA superintendent whose officers searched a bingo hall and seized property in a case where the licence is in dispute said yesterday at the High Court in Cork that “the last thing I wanted to do was go down there and take bingo books from old ladies”.

A GARDA superintendent who was criticised in the High Court for his opposition to a bingo hall operating in Cork City was defended yesterday when it was claimed he had a legal obligation to act the way he did.

A GARDA Superintendent who objected to a commercially run bingo hall operating in Cork city was described by the company’s barrister as a man with a mission with a “truly alarming” approach to the issue.

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said that the objections by eight former attorneys general to the proposed reforms of Oireachtas investigations and the judges’ pay referendum shows that "there is a bit of an old boy's network" present in the legal profession.

WELL, that settles it.

EIGHT former Irish attorneys general have voiced collectively their strong opposition to the Government’s proposal to amend the Constitution to give the Oireachtas special powers of investigation.

WE are strongly opposed to the current proposals to amend the Constitution for the following reasons.

Newtownshandrum 1-14 Sarsfields 0-14

BEN O’CONNOR has made major contributions to Newtown hurling over the years but his latest at Mallow on Saturday night in the county senior championship was massive.

The High Court has approved an award of €2.35m in damages to the family of a woman who died shortly after giving birth at a Dublin maternity hospital.

THE Department of Finance was aware Anglo Irish Bank was trying to place shares controlled by businessman Seán Quinn long before the controversial deal became public, it has been claimed.

BERTIE AHERN and Éamon de Valera share one incredible accomplishment — winning three successive elections for Fianna Fáil.

OFFICIALLY, the outgoing managing director of AIB Colm Doherty will not be entitled to any “golden handshake” after this week’s announcement of his resignation as head of the country’s largest bank.

A DRAMATIC late, late goal for Erin’s Own, Kieran ‘Hero’ Murphy – living up to his nickname with a superb ‘double’ on a long Killian Murphy centre – one minute into injury-time, was enough to deny reigning champions Newtownshandrum victory in this Cork SHC quarter-final in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

Tomorrow: All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final: Newtownshandrum (Cork) v Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny), Thurles, 2.30pm.

A REAL test of resolve yesterday for the 3,000 dedicated fans who made the journey to Thurles for this Munster final, defying the sleet and biting wind to support their teams.

UNLESS you’re in a situation where the protagonists are regular winners of their own county titles, and thus meet thereafter on a fairly regular basis, trying to predict what’s going to happen in a provincial club final is pretty much an impossible business.

A SUPERB contest in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday as Limerick three-in-a-row champions Adare defied predictions and really put it up to heavy favourites Newtownshandrum in this Munster Club SHC semi-final.

ON A day when winter finally came to town, with cold driving rain under stormy darkening skies, two outstanding club sides nevertheless combined to give us a club hurling match of the uppermost quality in this, the opening round of the Munster Club SHC.