As city living goes, it’s hard to find fault with heritage home Wellington Road’s No 4 Wellesley Terrace — so, put up your Dukes, and throw in your bids.

Former Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes has said it will be up to Labour after the election to decide whether the outgoing coalition can do a deal with others to form a government.

Two future leaders of Fine Gael clashed in January, 1985, over proposals to increase the price of stamps.

Former IBRC chairman Alan Dukes has blamed “negative” comments by Finance Minister Michael Noonan about the bank for “unjustified hostility or a plain lack of comprehension on the part of current and former senior officials of the Department of Finance”.

The former CEO of Anglo Irish Bank has claimed that there were challenges to asset sales by the bank that were "politically motivated" just before it was liquidated.

“Misplaced” Siteserv files suddenly discovered by the Department of Finance have thrown up new questions for the Government amid claims it deliberately tried to hide the information. 

Former attorney general Michael McDowell has said that the rights of TDs to speak out must trump tycoon Denis O’Brien’s bid to keep banking arrangements secret.

Former IBRC chairman Alan Dukes has criticised remarks made by a top civil servant and said Department of Finance officials adopted an “attitude of suspicion” towards the bank that led to “unproductive tensions” between both sides.

The former chief executive of IBRC has claimed Finance Minister Michael Noonan should extend the Siteserv probe to include multi-million euro debt write-downs by AIB and Nama if he really wants to uncover the full depth of the situation.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has insisted that a review of the Siteserv deal can be done at arms length before a full-blown inquiry into the controversial sale is decided on.

A scheme run by IBRC that was ruled unlawful in the British courts is likely to feature in the review announced by the finance minister.

The fallout from the Siteserv controversy turned increasingly bitter as an angry Alan Dukes moved to dismiss claims of a conspiracy.

Johnny Rotten once hollered into a microphone that anger is an energy but the anger that Alan Dukes expressed at his press conference at first seemed akin to wind energy supplied by a five-year-old blowing the seeds off a dandelion clock.

The controversial decision to give shareholders in the bankrupt firm Siteserv a €5m “sweetener” as taxpayers took a massive loss on its sale has been defended by Finance Minister Michael Noonan.

The former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank said the bank and the Cowen Government should have realised the extent of the problems facing the lender before the Guarantee.

Former Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes has expressed concerns that Ireland could be governed by "loose alliances" after the next General Election.

Former finance minister Alan Dukes chastised then Taoiseach Garet FitzGerald over using taxpayer money to hand out gifts on overseas trips.

In documents released under the 30-year rule, here are the stories that have emerged from State papers.

Former Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes has said the Government had made a "god-awful" mess of Irish Water.

Enda Kenny is under pressure to scrap the controversial banking inquiry and to set up an independent probe after one of its central members quit, claiming he had lost all hope in it being free from Cabinet control.

The Government will not have to implement the full €2bn in budget consolidation to meet the 3% fiscal deficit target next year, according to University College Cork economics professor, Seamus Coffey.

The government, led by Garret FitzGerald, was seriously concerned about the high cost of running the government jet within months of taking office in 1983.

European Union leaders did not react “anything like as fast as they needed to” during the euro crisis, “just doing enough to solve today’s problem but not the problems of tomorrow”, according to a former leader of Fine Gael.

Calls for bailed-out banks to be given more taxpayers’ money to top-up the €9.5bn already pumped into them to deal with the mortgage crisis have been greeted with outrage.

BLACKFISH, a documentary-style murder mystery, opens in cinemas this month.

Former Anglo chairman Alan Dukes knew about the tapes of explosive phone calls between senior managers at the bank, but did not bring them to the attention of investigators because he was not asked about them.

Alan Dukes has said he was among the board members at Anglo Irish bank who handed over taped conversations of senior bankers to gardaí.

The trials of former Anglo chairman Sean FitzPatrick and other senior executives could be delayed for years due to the controversy surrounding the leak of explosive tapes from the toxic bank, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said people shouldn't be "mucking around in Garda business" when it comes to the Anglo tapes or recordings from other banks.

The Tánaiste has said that Alan Dukes and other public interest directors in banks must answer what they did around the banking crisis.

Former Finance Minister and former IBRC Chairman, Alan Dukes, has said bankers pay must be attractive enough in order for Irish banks to recover.

YOU can have an implausibility of gnus, a deceit of lapwings, and a sneak of weasels, but what would the collective noun for a group of ex-Fine Gael leaders be? Ah, yes — a uselessness.

Bosses at the former Anglo Irish Bank refused Government calls to take a pay cut earlier this year, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has revealed.

As pay levels of top-earning bankers come under intense scrutiny, updated figures show taxpayers are also footing an annual €9.65m pensions bill for 111 former ministers.

The Chairman of the former Anglo Irish Bank, Alan Dukes, says its chief executive is 'absolutely' worth his €500,000 salary.

The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation could potentially return €8bn to the taxpayer when it is eventually wound up, the bank’s chairman, Alan Dukes, told the Oireachtas finance committee.

The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation will only know what the implications of a restructuring of the €29bn in promissory notes will have on the bank when the deal is finalised, chief executive Mike Aynsley told the Oireachtas Finance Committee yesterday.

The Chairman of the IBRC, Alan Dukes, has said the final bill for winding down Anglo will be around €25bn.

A senior Fine Gael figure has accused the brother of bankrupt billionaire Seán Quinn of dishonouring the role of GAA president.