People seeking compensation for being fitted with faulty Depuy hip implants will no longer have to pursue the matter through the courts after agreement was reached on a dispute resolution process.

Finance firm Capita Asset Services Ireland has emerged as the big winner in Nama’s payout for professional services in the first six months of this year.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) last year paid bonuses to staff for the first time since 2012.

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.

Children will be allowed just one free shower and one toilet flush a day under revised water allowances ahead of the introduction of charges next year.

The court heard that Breifne O’Brien’s deceptions first began to come to light when an allegation was made during civil proceedings in 2008 and Mr Justice Peter Kelly referred the matter to the Garda fraud squad.

A law firm has been retained by KPMG, the special liquidators of IBRC, to decide whether legal action should be taken against KPMG as auditors of the former Irish Nationwide Building Society.

Six legal firms shared €5.34m in fees from the Revenue Commissioners last year for services rendered, new figures show.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he was fully aware of the €180m set-up costs of Irish Water, but he did not specify whether he had knowledge of the €85m spent on consultancies.

The issue of spending at Irish Water will again come before the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) later today to discuss accountability within the new agency.

The questions now remaining over the spending of €85m on private consultants to set up Irish Water, is how much the Government knew about it and why they failed to provide answers to questions raised by TDs in the Dáil.

Accountancy firm KPMG has emerged as the big winners in Nama work over the past three years, earning over €22.29m.

The liquidators of IBRC identified the entire Quinn Family and its advisers as potential sources of the leaked Anglo Tapes.

The trials of former Anglo chairman Sean FitzPatrick and other senior executives could be delayed for years due to the controversy surrounding the leak of explosive tapes from the toxic bank, the Irish Examiner has learned.

One Dublin legal firm last year received fees in excess of €2m from Nama as the bonanza for professional firms from the agency’s work continued.

Farmers should seek expert legal and business advice to assess their projected overall personal debts before signing their Dairygold milk supply contract, warns one member of the Dairygold Concerned Farmers Action Group.

Giving members more time in which to increase their shareholding in line with their output would alleviate one core issue with Dairygold Co-op’s contentious new Milk Supply Agreement (MSA), says one milk supplier.

There is growing impatience with the pace of the investigation into the former Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS), which was nationalised after a bailout of €5.4bn in 2010.

Vodafone has said its plans to invest in Ireland may be threatened after the communications regulator (ComReg) sent it letters relating to O2’s bid for a mobile phone licence and also sent Vodafone’s correspondence to O2.

His winning personality and gold-plated reputation drew investors with ease but as John Hearne reports by Dec 2008, as the financial crisis morphed into recession, everyone wanted their money back... but it wasn’t there

Campaigners against household and water taxes will take to the streets today in an attempt to ramp up support for their cause ahead of the Mar 31 payment deadline.

A top law firm has launched an investigation into a bogus memo that claims to have come from the company advising the public on paying the household charge.

Communications consultant Monica Leech has agreed to pay fees due to lawyers who brought libel actions on her behalf, after a judge was told there had been a breakdown in the relationship between her and her legal team over the fees and advice.

The High Court has heard that Public Relations consultant Monica Leech's relationship with her solicitors broke down in the wake of her €1.87m libel pay out from the Evening Herald.

THERE are many people who would say that Michael Noonan has always failed to inspire, despite all his guff.

A “SENSATIONAL” report revealing the failings that led to €5.4 billion of taxpayers’ money being pumped into Irish Nationwide must be made public, opposition parties demanded last night.

While in opposition, Michael Noonan called for openness in dealing with the banking collapse, but now as Minister for Finance, he has been sitting on the report conducted by accountants Ernst and Young and solicitors McCann Fitzgerald in the events that led the Government to pump €5.4 billion of taxpayers’ money in Irish Nationwide.

THE High Court has been told that Sean Quinn had been refusing to open the locked gates of his home in Co Cavan to personally accept service of a summons issued to have him declared bankrupt in the Republic.

The State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC and formerly Anglo Irish Bank) today took the first legal step in the High Court in Dublin to have Sean Quinn declared a bankrupt in the Republic.

A REPORT on how the Irish Nationwide Building Society needed almost €5.4 billion in re-capitalisation must be published, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has urged.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has today called for the publication of a report on Irish Nationwide that was concluded 18 months ago.

RYANAIR has dropped its call for an Aer Lingus EGM but is considering legal action in a bid to gain answers to a number of its recent queries.

RYANAIR is generating so much cash that it is on course to be totally debt free by the end of March — clearing €709 million of debt in 12 months.

AER LINGUS expects to meet full-year targets after performing strongly in the key summer months and achieving a pre-exceptional operating profit of €94.6 million in the third quarter.

AER LINGUS has told Ryanair that if it wants to dispose of its 29.8% stake in the airline then it is open to having “constructive discussions”.

RYANAIR has given Aer Lingus a seven-day ultimatum to reply to unanswered questions on policy, threatening to force an extraordinary general meeting if the deadline is not met.

THE administrators of Quinn Insurance are to be paid more than €1.7 million in fees for the first three months of the year.

The High Court has approved more than €1.7m in fees incurred by the joint administrators of Quinn Insurance Ltd for the first three months of this year.

The number of merger transactions notified to the Competition Authority increased by 70% in 2010, but the absolute number of deals (46) is back to 2003 levels, according to a new survey.

THE High Court has approved further fees for the joint administrators of Quinn Insurance and their firm, Grant Thornton, for the four months from October to the end of January next. The fees, likely to be at least €1.5 million, plus legal fees, will be paid from the assets of the company.

The High Court has been informed that the joint administrators of Quinn Insurance have forwarded to the Financial Regulator the findings of their investigation into alleged breaches of insurance regulations which resulted in their appointment.

THE accountants and solicitors tasked with administering a scheme to repay those wrongly charged for nursing home care have been paid almost €5 million a year for the past three years.