An agent who acted for Prince in negotiations for a gig at Croke Park in 2008 has said he was only told by Prince two weeks before the gig that the artist was not going to play in Dublin.

FORMER National Irish Bank CEO Jim Lacey has denied before the High Court that he was “well aware” bogus non-resident accounts were a wide- spread problem at the bank during his tenure and that it was “impossible” he could not have known about it.

THE High Court has been asked to bar former National Irish Bank (NIB) chief executive Jim Lacey from involvement in any company.

ANOTHER legal dispute arising from the bankruptcy of alleged US billion dollar fraudster Bernard Madoff has come before the Commercial Court.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the families and victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing are entitled to the transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court as part of a civil case being brought against the five in the North.

Transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court are "intensely relevant" to a civil action being brought against them in the North by victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Supreme Court heard today.

The families of some of those killed in the Omagh bombing are seeking the discovery of documentation from five individuals who have appeared before the Special Criminal Court and are being sued for damages arising out of the 1998 explosion that killed 29 people, the High Court in Dublin heard today.

THE main perpetrators of wrongdoing relating to bogus non-resident accounts in National Irish Bank in the 1990s were certain branch managers, including maverick managers, and it was incredible that the inspectors who investigated NIB did not hold them responsible in some manner, a retired NIB regional manager has told the High Court.