FORMER Fianna Fáil TD Beverly Flynn could eventually face a legal bill of €2.5 million following her unsuccessful libel action against RTÉ in 2001.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Beverly Flynn could eventually face a legal bill of €2.5m following an unsuccessful libel action against RTÉ in 2001.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has announced his intention to propose the removal of the Fianna Fáil whip from Beverley Cooper-Flynn at a meeting of the party’s TDs and Senators next Tuesday.

FACING financial ruin, political ostracism and a lifetime of labelling as the TD who encouraged tax evasion, Beverly Flynn might have been forgiven for leaving the Supreme Court yesterday through a back door and behind blackened car windows.

The political future of Beverly Cooper-Flynn was in doubt today after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the outcome of a failed libel action against RTÉ.

Beverly Cooper-Flynn today lost a Supreme Court bid to overturn the outcome of a failed libel action against RTÉ.

Beverley Cooper-Flynn's appeal against her failed libel action is due to begin at the Supreme Court today.

Mayo TD Beverly Cooper-Flynn is to appeal her libel action against RTE reporter Charlie Bird and Co Meath farmer James Howard.

Mayo TD Beverly Cooper-Flynn has been ordered to pay in excess of £2m in costs for her libel case against RTE.

A High Court verdict on the awarding of costs in the Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel case against RTE will be issued at 3.30pm tomorrow.

Legal counsel for Beverly Cooper-Flynn has told the High Court that she should not have to pay costs in her failed libel case, as RTE failed to prove that she induced farmer James Howard to evade tax.

Beverly Cooper-Flynn has resigned from her position on the public accounts committee this morning.

The jury in the Beverly Cooper Flynn libel trial is has decided in favour of RTE.

The jury in the Cooper Flynn case have reached a verdict.

Closing presentations in the Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial are due to be completed later today.

The presentation of evidence in the Beverly Cooper-Flynn trial has ended.

RTE reporter Charlie Bird has told the High Court that he was not involved in any set-up or conspiracy against Beverly Cooper-Flynn.

RTE reporter Charlie Bird has told the Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial that because a TD encouraged investors to break the law, it made a good story.

The High Court has been told that Beverly Cooper-Flynn declined an opportunity to respond to allegations made against her by RTE in June 1998.

The Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial at the High Court has been told of how an RTE report about overcharging by NIB Bank led to an expose about CMI investment schemes.

A leading accountant has told the Cooper-Flynn libel trial that the Clerical Medical International investment scheme was clearly for the avoidance of tax.

At the Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel action trial in the High Court today, two former colleagues at the National Irish Bank have given conflicting accounts of offshore investment schemes.

The Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial at the High Court has heard that there was nothing underhand about a clerical medical insurance investment account being identified only by number.

The Co Meath farmer at the centre of the Beverley Cooper Flynn libel case said the Mayo TD told him there was no need to pay tax to the government.

The farmer at the centre of the Beverly Cooper Flynn libel case has taken the stand at the High Court.

The High Court has been told that a woman feared she might end up in jail when she learned her CMI investment account was illegal.

The High Court has been told that a National Irish Bank employee who offered an offshore investment scheme to a Co Meath farmer was not Beverly Cooper Flynn.

The High Court has been told that a National Irish Bank employee who offered an offshore investment scheme to a Co Meath farmer was not Beverly Cooper Flynn.

Legal action by Mayo TD Beverly Cooper-Flynn against RTE reporter Charlie Bird gets underway today at the High Court.