GAA director general Páraic Duffy accepts the Government’s €30m grant towards the €70m redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh was influenced by the pending Rugby World Cup bid.

AIB will not require another taxpayer-funded bailout because of mortgage losses, chief executive David Duffy has said.

There was just €1,001 left for creditors after the first full year of the liquidation of Ivan Yates’ Celtic Bookmakers business.

EVERY other day in these pages we read of sleaze, financial shenanigans and abuse of position by politicians and those in the upper echelons of our public services and semi-state bodies.