A company director accused of having €1.9m in crime proceeds in connection with a forestry investment business has been further charged with fraudulent trading.

The family of a farmer who was trampled to death has called on the Department of Agriculture and the Irish Farmers’ Association to raise more awareness of the potential dangers when handling bulls.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick met with Sean Quinn after the allegedly illegal Maple Ten deal to “mend fences” with the businessman who was threatening to sue the bank.

THE commercial property market is showing continued signs of recovery, with around €450 million worth of new deals in the pipeline.

Gardaí in Dublin have launched a murder investigation after the body of a man found two days ago was identified as that of a missing father-of-two.

FOR sentimental reasons, Maureen Gunne told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday she has kept Bertie Ahern’s personal cheque for €5,914 — the proceeds of a loan, plus interest — given to the Taoiseach by her late husband Fintan 13 years earlier.

One of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s close friends who helped put up a £39,000 (€49,500) loan for him in the early 1990s revealed today he refused to take the money back four times.

Estate agents Gunne Residential and Gunne Financial Services have been sold to a new team of investors by the Gunne family for an undisclosed sum

Tommy Barker looks back at a year when pubs adapted to the smoking ban and the arrival of new competitors.

A CLONMEL doctor yesterday warned of physical and mental health risks in the wake of the floods which deluged up to 100 homes and businesses in the town last Friday.

CENTRAL Bank vigilance on lending for house purchase has been fully backed by a leading estate agent as fears over a house price bubble grows.

FURTHER warnings of a house price bubble have been given by one of the country’s leading economists.