A conditional judgment for €445m is part of the settlement of the long and bitter litigation between the Quinn family and State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.

The High Court has appointed a provisional administrator to the Irish arm of troubled New Zealand specialist insurer CBL Insurance Ltd.

Irish hotels enjoyed the sixth year of turnover growth with occupancy levels back to pre-recession levels — but have been warned they must remain competitive or risk losing out to other European cities.

A provisional liquidator has been appointed by the High Court to the publisher of four weekly newspapers that circulate in Co Wexford, writes Ann O’Loughlin.

Three former directors of the collapsed Custom House Capital investment firm are jointly and severally liable to pay €214,457 to a liquidator for the cost of his investigation, collection of evidence and for the legal fees, the High Court has ruled.

A provisional liquidator has been appointed by the High Court to the publisher of four weekly newspapers that circulate in Co Wexford.

The special liquidators of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation have secured court orders approving a process to govern their planned repayment of an estimated €100m in overcharged interest by the former Anglo Irish Bank.

Retired businessman Jim Reynolds has launched High Court proceedings aimed at preventing a financial funds and its receivers from selling, marketing and advertising for sale three properties he owns.

Debenhams stores in Ireland are set to remain open following the approval of a survival plan allowing the department store chain to exit examinership.

A survival plan allowing the department store chain Debenhams Retail (Ireland) Ltd exit examinership has been approved by the High Court.

Bank-appointed receivers have regained possession of the farm belonging to former winners of RTÉ’s Ireland’s Fittest Family entertainment programme, the High Court heard yesterday.

A High Court judge has granted temporary High Court injunctions compelling former winners of Ireland’s Fittest Family on RTÉ to hand over possession of their Co Cork farm to bank-appointed receivers, writes Aodhan O’Faolain.

A dispute between members of Seán Quinn’s family and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation over the scope of orders freezing and monitoring their accounts and assets has been adjourned at the High Court.

The appointment of an examiner to the department store chain, Debenhams Retail (Ireland) Ltd, has been confirmed by the High Court.

An interim examiner has been appointed by the High Court to the department store chain, Debenhams Retail (Ireland) Ltd, which operates 11 stores nationwide including two in Cork.

US-headquartered animal nutrition group Alltech has acquired Keenan Systems, the cattle feed machinery firm in Borris, Co Carlow.

GOOD profit levels are now recorded at Kilkenny’s Lyrath Estate hotel and spa on 170 pastoral acres, up for sale a decade after it opened at a development cost of €50m.

The receiver to the €50m five-star Lyrath resort hotel in Co Kilkenny has received €1.35m in fees to date, new figures show

LONG term secure rental of almost €1.5 million per annum (and scope to grow it further) is the lure at Limerick’s Ennis Road Retail Park.

A High Court judge has overturned an order dissolving Siteserv, the firm whose sale by State-owned IBRC to a company of billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien is being investigated by a commission of inquiry.

A collapsed investment firm’s failure to maintain proper accounts has made it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to determine where €56m in misappropriated client funds has gone, the High Court has heard.

The inquiry examining transactions by IBRC has said its hands are tied in deciding whether to overrule a claim of confidentiality over 200,000 documents received on debt write-offs.

A 32-acre landbank “with scope to be the next Eastgate Business Park” has come for sale alongside the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork, right by where new roundabout junctions are proposed for the €100m Dunkathel interchange upgrade.

A CO KILDARE-based building firm is the buyer of a new homes site on Cork city’s Cleve Hill, Blackrock Road, paying c €3 million for six acres, with planning for 18 large homes.

Around 80 jobs are expected to be lost at Irish Pride — one of the country’s leading bakery businesses — despite it being rescued.

Moves may be made against developers Paddy McKillen and Gerry Maguire to recover loans given to them as part of the Maple Ten investors in Anglo Irish Bank, the High Court heard.

A Co Tipperary hotel which has been in receivership for as much as eight years, is finally to be sold.

IBRC’s special liquidators have bought out its partner in the controversial joint-venture it established nearly three years ago to recover key Quinn family assets in Russia and Ukraine, for $34m (€31m).

The High Court has confirmed the appointment of joint liquidators to the company that formerly operated Clerys Department Store.

Sources have expressed confidence that the legal clash between the family of Seán Quinn and the former Anglo Irish Bank and now liquidated IBRC could be settled by the end of the year.

THE remaining zoned land of McInerney Homes, Ireland’s largest house builder during the boom, is now on the market through DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, on behalf of Kieran Wallace and Padraic Monaghan, of KPMG, the receivers.

A joint provisional liquidators has been appointed by the High Court to the company that operates Clerys department store.

Fresh claims that businessman Denis O’Brien renegotiated his loans on special terms with IBRC after threatening legal action have thrown into doubt the terms for an inquiry into the now-bust bank.

It’s hoped the judge-led inquiry will fill in the many blanks regarding IBRC’s deals — and before the next general election, says Juno McEnroe, Political Reporter    

Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett has been asked to address concerns that the Dáil has been undermined after incomplete parliamentary answers were given about IBRC.

The Government has set up an independent probe into all IBRC deals between 2009 and 2013 — with a particular focus on preferential interest rates and “unusual” share trading of companies it subsequently sold — after finally admitting the existing KPMG review is flawed.