The building bust provided a bonanza for accountancy firms with new figures showing that Nama has paid receivers €115.39m over the past seven years.

A host of firms are in line for lucrative work from Nama to help the agency evaluate and monitor its debtors.

IT is understood a degree of interest has been expressed in the Sunday Tribune newspaper, which went into receivership at the beginning of this month.

THE Irish National Stud has tried to explain away the origins of €719,000 worth of un-tendered business deals between it and its key personnel.

BUSINESS deals at the Irish National Stud (INS) worth €718,000 were not put to competitive tender and were awarded to firms run by some of its key personnel.