The Central Bank has paid a security firm almost €300,000, to date, to secure the site of the ill-fated former Anglo Irish Bank building on Dublin’s North Wall Quay.

A mothballed retail project on the outskirts of Limerick city, which was abandoned mid-build during the property crash, is set to undergo a €100m redevelopment, with the potential to create 2,000 jobs.

The High Court has cleared the way for a Nama-appointed receiver to sell a Dublin 4 property occupied in recent weeks by squatters.

The biggest construction project in the State, which got under way at the weekend, is expected to take four years to complete.

The completion of the ill-fated former Anglo Irish Bank building on Dublin’s North Wall Quay has moved a step closer.

Aoife Brennan, Lisney’s divisional director of research, looks back at 2013 and predicts what’s in store for the year ahead.

A property firm controlled by developer Liam Carroll sitting on accumulated losses of €613.6m, last year paid its directors almost €800,000.

A heartbroken community yesterday heard that people with issues need to speak out and let others know that they are experiencing difficulties.

A mayor has admitted that he is frightened to walk through his own city centre after dark.

The half-finished, former headquarters of the Anglo Irish Bank has been defaced with anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic graffiti.

DEAR Michael Lowry, On Sunday you circulated a statement explaining some of the background to a telephone call between yourself and Kevin Phelan.

THE significance of the newly published taped conversation involving Michael Lowry is that, in it, he flatly contradicts evidence he supplied to the Moriarty Tribunal.

The English property that Michael Lowry has claimed to be landlocked has a full right of way through a specially designated access strip in an adjoining housing estate.

The State spent over €103m renting property from Nama-hit developers, beef barons, business tycoons, banks and even religious organisations last year.

A German company contracted to carry out “no expense spared” glazing works for the facade of the proposed flagship Dublin headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank has lost its action for compensation when the project did not proceed.

The Oireachtas is awaiting legal advice on whether a high-level committee will investigate complaints about Independent TD Michael Lowry and land he owns.

Michael Lowry has been forced to declare investment land he owns in Wigan after 83 complaints about his affairs were lodged with the clerk of the Dáil.

An agent handling Michael Lowry’s “worthless” property investment in England said a buyer would do well to acquire it for less than €6.7m.

Michael Lowry has said he did not declare a 22-acre land asset in England because it was “worthless”.

TO compare Michael Lowry to Mario Balotelli might seem ridiculous, but bear with me for a few moments please.

Shamed former minister Michael Lowry has admitted owning undeclared land in England and said he is prepared to sit on the speculative investment until it realises its full value.

Michael Lowry has said he will not declare a speculative property investment he retains in England until the land is rezoned and realises its value.

Michael Lowry’s land holding in Wigan has shed light on his contacts with some of his longstanding associates in north Tipperary and the horse racing industry.

The English land Michael Lowry has not been declaring to the Dáil was previously wrapped up in allegations of blackmail and payoffs.

A Cork suburban scheme of shops and 142 apartments at Dennehys Cross is part of a €75m investment and distressed assets sell-off, to include 500 Dublin apartments, by Ulster Bank.

A US-based property investment firm has acquired Dublin’s converted Gasworks building in Ringsend for €40 million, an average of €190,000 per unit.

The Central Bank is set to buy a vacant building that was originally supposed to be the headquarters of the former Anglo Irish Bank from Nama for €7m.

The Central Bank has officially bought the half-finished headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank.

A Government quango is set to be axed, with a report due this week by the country’s public spending watchdog set to reveal a litany of financial mismanagement and planning irregularities.

The Central Bank has agreed to pay about €8m for a half-completed Dublin office block that’s synonymous with the real-estate crash, according to a source.

Ulster Bank is believed to be looking at selling its Dublin-based investment property loan portfolio, estimated to be worth a combined €1 billion.

Money to help revive the country’s sugar industry could be found in the EU’s regional budget, Fine Gael MEP Sean Kelly believes following a meeting with the European commissioner responsible.

THE factors that hobbled Ulster Bank in its race for third place in the Irish market include:

BELFAST-based Indian property developer Suneil Sharma’s name has been linked with a Limerick city retail site debt acquisition worth over €100 million.

REMEMBER the blockbuster Rich Man, Poor Man? This spectacularly successful televised drama series in 1976 was based on the tale of the Jordache brothers, Rudy and Tom.

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

TODAY was supposed to be the day when we would get “finality” and “definitive” endgame figures about the extent of bank losses and size of ultimate cheque tax payers would have to write to bail them out. Dream on.

DUBLIN-based law firm William Fry has settled its legal action against developer Liam Carroll over his failure to pay €3.3 million of a €4.8m legal costs bill.

GREATEST misnomer of the election was of any outright winner.

WHEN close to a third-of-a-billion euro disappears without any apparent trace, there is usually an investigation about it.

Anglo Irish Bank's proposed headquarters in the Dublin Docklands could now be sold.

AN Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for a company controlled by developer Liam Carroll to complete the building of the proposed Anglo Irish Bank headquarters in Dublin’s docklands.

Planning permission has been granted for the proposed Anglo HQ in Dublin's docklands to finally be finished.

CONTROVERSIAL property tycoons, Liam Carroll and Bernard McNamara are pocketing millions for property they rent to the state — almost €117 million each year.