Independent News & Media (INM) is seeking legal advice to determine whether it can co-opt new members to its depleted board, without having to wait several weeks to hold a shareholder vote.

The growing power shift at Independent News & Media took a firm hold yesterday with prominent directors — chairman James Osborne and chief financial officer Donal Buggy — being voted off the board at the group’s AGM.

The chairman of the board of Independent News and Media has been voted off at todays AGM in Citywest in Dublin.

A non-executive director of Independent News and Media said yesterday he stands by claims that a €1.87m departure payment to the company’s former chief executive Gavin O’Reilly was done with “undue haste”.

An executive with Independent News and Media plc claims the company’s major shareholder, Denis O’Brien, was behind an allegedly unlawful attempt to oust him.

The ousting of Gavin O’Reilly from INM initially appeared to be quite a coup for board chairman James Osborne, but it now seems the legal battles are only beginning, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The boardroom in-fighting at Independent News and Media (INM) has taken an amazing twist with rebel board member Paul Connolly refusing to comply with a demand from chairman James Osborne to resign.

A payment of €1.87m made with “indecent haste” to former Irish News & Media chief executive Gavin O’Reilly on his stepping down last week was unlawful and also unjustified where he presided over “a period of destruction” of the company’s share value, a non-executive director of the company has alleged.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Government would consider “cross-ownership” of the media after an escalation in the battle for control of Independent News and Media (INM).

Gavin O'Reilly is to depart as chief executive of Independent News & Media, the company has confirmed.

NEWCOURT, the property services and recruitment group, doubled its profits in the first six months of the year.

A Dubliner who attacked an Italian teenager, who is now paralysed for life has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years.