A financial fund-appointed receiver has secured a High Court injunction against the owners of several Dublin properties over reports last weekend that tenants had been forcibly removed from one of the premises.

Bo Bo Catering Limited, which runs Silks Chinese Restaurant in The Mall, Malahide, and from which the company claims it has been locked out, is to ask the High Court next week for recovery of the premises.

A part-completed residential development between Cork Airport and Business Park and Kinsale, in Riverstick village with nine townhouses and one apartment is being offered for receiver Ken Fennell of Deloitte, at €650,000.

A bank-appointed receiver has secured a High Court injunction requiring anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy and several others to vacate a commercial premises in Dublin.

Ladbrokes Ireland generated operating profits of £2.5m (€3.5m) in the first half of this year, unchanged from the same period last year.

British bookmaker, Ladbrokes is expecting annual operating profits to fall around £20m (€28m) short of expectations, this year.

British betting company Ladbrokes has announced more rationalisation plans, aimed at reducing costs further and allowing for a greater digital-based investment drive.

Ladbrokes Ireland has been placed into examinership, throwing the future of hundreds of jobs into doubt.

An application to remove the businesswoman Jackie Lavin from a luxury Italianate mansion, formerly owned by her partner Bill Cullen, in the heart of the Killarney National Park has been adjourned.

The receivers for Glencullen Properties Ltd, the company formerly owned by Bill Cullen, have begun court proceedings to remove Mr Cullen’s partner, the celebrity businesswoman Jackie Lavin, from Killegy House, a magnificent Italianate-style house with landscaped gardens and tennis court overlooking the lakes of Killarney, built by Mr Cullen.

Waterford’s historic T&H Doolan’s inn has been bought by a bar and hospitality family from the south-east for over €500,000 at a lively auction.

A High Court judge has criticised the level and transparency of a further €450,000 fees sought by a receiver and his lawyers in the receivership following dissolution of the family partnership involving the adult children of deceased Judge Noel Ryan.

The receiver to A-wear has reopened four stores and plans to open another five or six stores by next week.

Hundreds of jobs are likely to be lost at women’s fashion retailer A-Wear in the wake of a receiver being appointed to its holding company after the search for fresh investment proved fruitless.

Some 570 jobs at a pharmaceutical giant are being axed and scores of others are under threat at a major fashion retailer.

Almost 900 jobs are hanging in the balance this afternoon.

An interim examiner has been appointed to fashion retailer A-Wear which has 30 outlets. The chain, which employs more than 350 people, is blaming its difficulties on high rents and increased competition.

An examiner has been appointed to the fashion chain A Wear.

Companies in financial trouble are increasingly availing of examinership to restructure their debts and keep them afloat, according to figures published by accounting firm Kavanagh Fennell.

Hotels and restaurants are getting to grips with the recession with a 16% year-on- year drop in business failures in the hospitality sector, according to data compiled by insolvency accountants kavanaghfennell.

The number of companies that have gone out of business in the year to date is up by 3% on the same period in 2011, but a “levelling out” of the extent of business failures is becoming evident.

The number of companies going into receivership has jumped by 54% in the first 10 months of the year, with the motor trade in particular coming under severe pressure.

Nearly 400 companies effectively went bust during the third quarter of this year — a slight increase on the same period last year, but a significant decline on a quarter- by-quarter basis.

There has been a 77% increase in the number of retail businesses that have failed this year compared to the same period last year, according to Insolvency-journal.ie.

APPROXIMATELY 170 Irish companies went bust every month in 2011, a new report shows.

The High Court has confirmed the appointment of a provisional liquidator to one of Ireland's oldest car rental businesses Murray's-Rent A Car.

The number of company insolvencies is up since last year, but the figures overall are "somewhat stabalising".

CORPORATE insolvency trends are “grim but holding”, with the 1,090 for the first eight months of 2011 up 7% on the same period last year.

The Government was urged today to restore public confidence to boost the domestic economy

FOUR companies a day went out of business in the first seven months of this year.

THE Government was urged today to restore public confidence to boost the domestic economy.

The number of corporate insolvencies fell in May comparied to the previous month, according to new figures released today.

Fashion retailer Penneys has bought the Chapel House on Parnell Street in Dublin.

MORE that six companies are going bust every working day with 33 companies a week going out of business in the first three months of the year, according to Insolvency Journal.ie.

An average of six companies folded per day in the first quarter of 2011, it has been revealed.

Ninety-six firms went out of business last month, an average of three every day.

Thirty firms went bust every week last year, a business study revealed today.

Four companies a day went out of business over the last 11 months, according to a new survey.

THE number of firms that went bust increased last month and the figure is expected to hit 1,500 by the end of the year.

THE number of insolvencies fell slightly last month following a rise in September but the overall figure for 2010 is set to be higher than last year.

LIQUIDATORS have been appointed to the holding company of high street retailer Pulse Accessories, but it is hoped that some of the 130 employees’ jobs can be saved through a sale of the company.