The five-star Muckross Park Hotel in Killarney, owned by businessman Bill Cullen and his partner Jackie Lavin, was yesterday granted protection by the High Court.

The financial woes of Bill Cullen, once the country’s best known car dealer, continue.

A RECEIVER appointed to the former flagship firm of property developer, Bernard McNamara has realised over €3.1 million from the sale of assets of the company, new documents show.

A High Court judge has appointed an interim examiner to an electrical and mechanical sub-contracting firm that employs more than 120 people.

A NATIONAL fire authority needs to be urgently established and full-time fire service introduced in areas of high population, the Labour Party said last night.

AN INDEPENDENT investigation into the recent death of two part-time firefighters will be called for by the Labour Party today in a Dáil debate on the state of the country’s fire services.

Mr Pierce Farrell of Farrell Grant Sparks was appointed Receiver at the instigation of Ulster Bank to whom IFS owe a substantial sum, believed to be in the region of £1m.