Dublin: Tom Byrne has this week been appointed to the position of president of the Institute of Directors in Ireland (IoD) and will serve a two-year term. He replaces Ann Riordan who has held the position since June 2009.

The High Court has granted Quinn Insurance and the administrators appointed to the group permission to retain the services of merchant bankers Macquarie Capital Europe Ltd to advise them in any prospective sale of the group.

The High Court has approved the costs to date incurred by the two joint administrators appointed the to run the Quinn Insurance group.

Ita Gibney, founder and managing director of public relations firm Gibney Communications, talks to David Clerkin.