Central Bank directors allowed a 2007 economic stability report warning of a crash to be written in such a way that it “didn’t cause panic” to help “engineer” the fabled soft landing.

Irish family businesses are among the least prepared to take advantage of commercial opportunities presented by an increasingly digitalised business environment.

Bankrupt developer Sean Dunne is to appeal a High Court ruling that a warrant used to search a house in the K-Club was valid.

The son of controversial property developer Sean Dunne has been granted permission for a €16m luxury development in a highly sought after Manhattan neighbourhood.

The High Court has dismissed developer Sean Dunne’s bid to quash a warrant under which the official in charge of his Irish bankruptcy searched a house where various assets were seized.

The son of former property developer Sean Dunne suffered a setback yesterday at a New York City Council planning hearing that could cost him almost $3m (€2.2m) in profit.

Developer Sean Dunne strongly disputes claims there was a secret panel in a bookshelf wall of a K-Club house where valuable artwork may have been stored before the property was searched by the official dealing with his bankruptcy, the High Court has heard.

The gas heating in an apartment where a couple suffering hypothermia were found dead had been switched off at the occupier’s request, an inquest heard.

JK Brackens shocked fancied holders Loughmore-Castleiney in the Mid Tipperary SFC final at Templetuohy yesterday and were full value for their 2-10 to 1-9 win.

A judge has called for Taser stun guns to be issued to gardaí to deal with out-of-control public order incidents.

A Judge has called for Taser stun guns to be issued to gardaí to deal with out of control public order incidents.

A3 shareholders don’t have any Glanbia Co-op voting rights.

A car dealer charged with eight counts of evading tax on luxury cars has been acquitted on one count.

A CAR dealer charged with evading tax on luxury cars told gardaí he never induced a tax official to falsely process VRT applications for his benefit.

A witness in the trial of a car dealer charged with evasion of vehicle registration tax on luxury cars has said he bought too many new cars to remember in 2006.

A DOCTOR gave inadequate resuscitation to a man who had a heart attack and subsequently died, it has been claimed.

Twenty-four business leaders have been shortlisted for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award 2011.

Roisin Shorthall has been re-elected in Dublin North West on the first count.

An inquest finding that hypothermia caused the death of 30-year-old mother-of-two Rachel Peavoy in her council flat is a stark reminder of how society’s most vulnerable are suffering as the economic crisis worsens, writes Scott Millar

PADRAIG Harrington last night insisted that the best was yet to come where his golfing career was concerned.

FOUR companies a day are going bust as company failure rates continue to soar – up 27% year-on-year – yet one in two firms are planning for the upturn in the economy.

Former CRH chief executive Liam O'Mahony has been appointed as the new chairperson of IDA Ireland, it was announced today.

Financier Dermot Desmond and venture firm Kernel Capital are among investors to have pumped €22m into Dublin-based telecoms equipment supplier Intune Networks, it was announced today.

ALMOST 400 people were last night resigned to joining ever-increasing dole queuesas two factories laid off staff because of Ireland’s spiralling costs.

THE bulk of the remaining 176 staff at Waterford Crystal have been given 30 days’ notice of redundancy.

COCA-COLA yesterday announced it is to let 130 staff go as part of a restructuring drive.

MUSGRAVE is cutting staff and imposing a pay freeze to cope with tough trading conditions.

A man who took part in a violent attack on a garda who was trying to arrest his cousin has been given community work instead of a prison sentence.

THE festive Christmas break prevented proper analysis of one of the most shocking and infamous scandals ever to arise in corporate Ireland.

THE IDA (Industrial Development Agency) has put a team in place in the US to lobby Barack Obama on tax issues should he become president.

IRELAND has more than 6,000 lakes and, according to author John Dunne, we don’t appreciate them. They are, he thinks, a neglected part of our heritage.

A gang of men from the Republic is believed to be responsible for an attack on a 97-year-old man in his west Belfast home over the weekend.

CHAMBERS Ireland moved to dissociate itself from comments of its president-elect yesterday after he revealed his intention to vote against the Lisbon treaty.

A gunman who blasted a garda sergeant with a shotgun in a cocaine-crazed incident arising from a feud between members of two west Dublin families has been given a 12-year sentence.

Chambers Ireland have said that Brian Cowen's Budget announced this afternoon was "a mildly expansionary budget underpinned by a sustainable and appropriate level of borrowing".

BARRY O’LEARY is to be next chief executive of the IDA. Mr O’Leary is currently IDA divisional manager in life sciences and ICT and he will take the helm at the industrial development agency at the end of this year, when Sean Dorgan steps down.

CHAMBERS Ireland yesterday urged the Government to remain committed to completing the National Development Plan and Transport 21 programmes on time and to ensure that capital investments are not “crowded out” by the public service pay bill.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has announced the admission of eight new partners.

SOME recent analysis on the fate of the economy has been described as lurid by a leading banker.

IDA Ireland moved earlier this week to counter a growing belief the economy was losing out in its battle to win its share of new foreign investment.

IDA Ireland bosses stressed the country was not facing a jobs meltdown following some high-profile plant closures this year.

HOPES that Ireland will surf through an economic downturn were raised last night as business chiefs heralded rising job numbers and a big United Nations report named Ireland as the EU’s top creator of wealth.

IDA chief executive Sean Dorgan will step down at the end of the year following eight years with the company.