A TOTAL of 22 Garda inspectors, including three women, have been promoted to the rank of superintendent and assigned to new stations.

Crimestoppers is offering a €10,000 award for information on the death of Stephen Ledden over three years ago.

A Dublin man, who was apprehended with a loaded pistol while on bail for his involvement with a motorcycle theft ring, has been sentenced to 10 years with two suspended at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

GARDAÍ yesterday reissued an appeal for the mother of an unidentified stillborn foetus found by cleaners in a toilet of a Dublin hostel more than a year ago to come forward for assistance.

The sister of a man shot dead outside her home broke-down in the witness box today as she gave evidence of realising the shouting and gunfire she had heard while trying to sleep, was that of her brother’s killer.

A 40-year-old Galway man has appeared before Ennis District Court charged in connection with the siege in Gort almost three weeks ago.

BANK OF IRELAND is merging its wholesale financial services and asset management services divisions to create a new capital markets division.

BANK OF IRELAND’S asset management arm has suffered a €16 billion meltdown as key North American clients stripped it of business on the back of a poor investment performance.

BANK OF IRELAND’S asset management arm has lost almost 60% of its crucial North American business in just 12 months, new figures show.

Bank of Ireland has refused to confirm reports this evening that up to 2,000 job losses are to be announced later this week.

BRISTOL & WEST (B&W), the underperforming former building society taken over by Bank of Ireland in 1997, is in the firing line after chief executive Brian Goggin pledged a crackdown on costs yesterday.

Bank of Ireland has announced that profits before tax were up 6% from €670m in the six months to the end of September last year to €713m this year.