THERE’S a clever adage that describes middle age as the time when your broad mind and your narrow waist trade places.

Up to 60% of bank loans given out during the boom years do not have the correct documentation to enforce the security on which they were lent, according to Nick Leeson, the former rogue trader.

A catering manager at Croke Park has avoided jail today after he stole €15,000 worth of food and drink from his employers.

IF previous rogue traders are anything to go by, notoriety and possibly even a Hollywood film await the person behind the €1.66 billion UBS fallout.

This development is a testament to the Liebherr family’s loyalty to the kingdom, writes Siobhan Cronin

ON opposite corners of Parnell Square, the protestors were making their voices heard.

THE first major protest against the visit of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II passed without incident yesterday as the biggest security operation in the history of the state intensified in advance of the royal arrival tomorrow.

Galway United v Drogheda United

NICK LEESON said the revelation that a single trader lost €4.9 billion at French bank Societe Generale proved financial institutions had not learned their lessons.

Rogue trader Jerome Kerviel was today being blamed for aggravating the turmoil that saw tens of billions of pounds wiped off the UK stock exchange earlier this week.

Societe Generale bank’s chief executive took out newspaper ads today begging shareholders to accept his “apologies and deep regrets” after a trader at the bank was accused of fraud costing the company €4.96bn.

Nick Leeson said today’s revelation that a single trader lost £3.7 bn (€4.9bn) at French bank Societe-Generale proved financial institutions had not learned their lessons.

The second-biggest bank in France admitted today it has lost €4.9bn through a junior rogue trader who gambled it away on the world’s markets.

When people say someone’s led a colourful life, it’s the likes of Nick Leeson they’re talking about. Michael Moynihan spoke to Galway Utd’s ceo about Sunderland’s visit to Terryland Park, and Ewan McGregor.

Nick Leeson’s blue-and-yellow striped trading jacket from Barings was sold to Paul Taylor, manager of the Three Delta fund, for £21,000 (€30,855) by the defunct British investment bank’s liquidator, the Daily Telegraph reported, citing the liquidator.

ROY KEANE has backed proposals to allow physios to treat players on the pitch while play is in progress.

ALMOST 7.30pm on a Thursday and Nick Leeson is trying to get the baby to sleep.

GALWAY UNITED FC have appointed Mr Nick Leeson as the club’s new commercial manager.

Rogue trader Nick Leeson will sign on as the commercial manager of an Irish soccer club this week.

Busy times for Ulsterman Liam Neeson.

Up to one-third of children and young people in the North are living in poverty, according to the Child Care NI group.

A former currency trader accused of hiding €700m in losses at the Allfirst bank in the US today pleaded guilty to one of the largest bank fraud cases in US history.

A rogue currency trader accused of hiding €800m in trading losses at AIB-owned Allfirst Financial was today indicted by a US federal grand jury.

Parallels between John Rusnak’s alleged €866m fraud and the collapse of Barings Bank expose ‘‘incompetence and negligence’’ in the banking world, rogue trader Nick Leeson claimed today.

The US banker at the centre of an alleged €866m fraud has met voluntarily with the FBI and federal prosecutors, his lawyer said.