The good and the great, the ones who made stellar contributions to Irish basketball at home and overseas, were inducted into Basketball Ireland's Hall of Fame at the weekend

It started as a puck-around and ended with managers tangling on the sideline, the kind of pre-season game that picks up momentum before a breathless finish.

David Drumm, the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, has pleaded not guilty to being involved in an alleged €7.2bn conspiracy to defraud and to dishonestly providing false information to the market.

 

In part four of our special on rural Ireland. Caroline O’Doherty visits O’Gonnelloe in Co. Clare.

Glenville 2-10 Ballydesmond 0-5: Glenville remain in the race for IFC honours after overcoming Ballydesmond with an eye-catching performance at Ballyclough yesterday.

The European Commission should use this year’s milk quota superlevy fines to fund crisis intervention measures to ease the looming crisis in the dairy sector, a leading academic has advised.

The Cork Folk Festival provided a feast of great music and good fun, writes Eoin Edwards

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Deemed too old for inter-county football and possibly too young for politics, the last eight months have been a whirlwind for Joe Sheridan. But the 30-year-old’s interest in both remains unstinted.

A building developer who was one of the so-called Maple 10 lenders has told the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives that the bank approached him and said an opportunity had come up.

Maple 10 developer Gerry Gannon has told the Anglo trial that he always found people who worked at the bank to be "honest and truthful".

Grenagh 0-15 Ballydesmond 0-09

Greyhound racing sustains 10,000 rural jobs and injects around €500m into local communities annually, said Junior Agriculture Minister Tom Hayes yesterday.

Ballydesmond 0-12 Kildorrery 0-10

The Department of Finance and Central Bank conspired with Anglo Irish Bank in relation to its advancing over €2bn loans to Quinn companies for the unlawful purpose of propping up its share price, it was alleged at the Commercial Court.

Well-known traditional accordionist Dan Herlihy will be honoured at the Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival in Castleisland, Co Kerry, this weekend.

The president of the High Court has cut the €480 per hour fees sought by the administrator of insurance company Icarom plc and also cut the average €330 hourly fees for his staff after noting “a great deal of public disquiet at the level of fees charged for this type of work”.

Ballydesmond 1-17 Canovee 0-13

Niall ‘Slippers’ Madden continued in top form when completing a 146/1 double on Definite Ridge and Namarama in Downpatrick yesterday.

Sharp-shooting Donncha O’Connor and Niall Fleming combined to earn Ballydesmond a deserved win over Cill na Martra in this Cork IFC first round clash at Dromtariffe on Saturday.

Readymix shareholders will vote on the proposed €27.4m takeover of the company on Apr 5.

Directors of Readymix areconsidering a takeover approach from majority shareholder Cemex, which would most likely see the Irish cement producer leave the Irish Stock Exchange.

Readymix is expecting its total losses for 2011 to amount to €54 million.

TWO footbridges providing access to Ireland’s highest mountain Carrauntoohil, along with a car park for hillwalkers, were officially opened yesterday in the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks.

THE potential dangers involved in leaving electric heaters switched on overnight have been highlighted at an inquest into the death of a Kerry man who perished in a fire at his home during last November’s cold snap.

WAGES of top Anglo Irish Bank staff will be reviewed in the coming months, the Department of Finance has confirmed.

OUR love affair with property continues to form the core backdrop to the economic forecasts making it into the public domain.

FORMER Kerry star forward Mike Frank Russell scored 1-4 as Laune Rangers booked their place in the third round of the AIB Kerry SFC at the expense of Spa.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen today rejected claims that senior government officials influenced a statement by the former chairman of nationalised Anglo Irish Bank weeks after it was put into state control.

ANGLO Irish Bank has admitted there is a chance it will need a further €10 billion of government money this year as it posts the biggest ever loss for an Irish company.

GARDAÍ investigating alleged financial irregularities at Anglo Irish Bank were still questioning a second former senior bank official last night.

ANGLO Irish Bank is expected to report bad loan losses of €14 billion for the 15 months to end December, 2009, almost double the amount it had previously indicated.

THE new chairman of Anglo Irish Bank has called for the investigation into the potentially criminal behaviour of his predecessor, Sean FitzPatrick, to be completed as soon as possible.

ANGLO Irish Bank’sincoming chairman believes the bank will still be around in 10 years and could be sold to benefit the taxpayer.

The incoming head of state-run Anglo Irish Bank today said allowing the institution to go under would cost taxpayers more than the billions the Government is spending to keep it open.

Former Finance Minister Alan Dukes is to take over as the new chairman of nationalised Anglo-Irish Bank, it was confirmed today.

PITTORI followed-up his recent hurdling debut win over course and distance when justifying strong support in the featured Grade 3 Visit punchestown.com Juvenile Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.

ANGLO Irish Bank has ended its eight and a half month period without a chief executive by appointing Australian national Mike Aynsley to its top job.

BELEAGUERED regeneration vehicle the Dublin Docklands Development Authority has announced its chief executive Paul Moloney has stepped down.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan said allowing Anglo Irish Bank to fail was not an option.

FORMER Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick’s outstanding loans had risen to €106.8 million by the end of March, the bank has disclosed.

ONE of the more colourful but chillingly accurate phrases used to embroider our public discourse in the not-too-distant past was given to us by a former EU commissioner.