The Director of Public Prosecutions paid the three barristers who prosecuted Seán FitzPatrick just over €1m in the longest running criminal trial in the history of the state.

The State requires an enlarged jury panel to deal with the case of former Anglo Irish Bank executive William McAteer and three co-accused, the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard this morning.

Three members of the State’s prosecution team in the long-running Anglo trial are the top three best-paid barristers by the DPP for the first six months of this year.

A brothel-keeper’s prostitution operation was taking in up to €4m a year, a court has heard.

JONNY WILKINSON emerged from the mania of television cameras and a thousand popping flashbulbs to insist that no-one could buy a piece of the world’s best rugby player if it interfered with his game.