THE Director of Corporate Enforcement is to resume his application to disqualify Michael and Thomas Bailey from acting as company directors on grounds of alleged misconduct and fraud in the affairs of their company, Bovale Developments.

THE Supreme Court has adjourned an appeal over whether the Director of Corporate Enforcement can use material such as a tribunal of investigation report in his proceedings against brothers Michael and Tom Bailey seeking their disqualification from company management.

LOSSES sustained last year at the British construction firm controlled by builders, Tom and Michael Bailey, totalled £18.9m (€21.6m), new figures show.

A PROPERTY developer who loaned Ted Cunningham €200,000 on the security of a bag of sterling totalling £175,000 testified yesterday that the accused man told him he was doing business in Bulgaria with Phil Flynn and the Bailey brothers.

The public is to be quizzed about their attitudes to tax and what compels them to pay up as part of a nationwide government survey.

THE tent is coming down. And with that single move, Brian Cowen’s reputation as Taoiseach will inevitably go up.

George Redmond told gardaí he regularly received large sums of money from people representing development companies his corruption trial has been told.

THE State agency that deals with rogue companies and their bosses has been given a below inflation rise in its budget.

THE High Court has ruled that the Director of Corporate Enforcement is entitled to rely on an investigation by accountants PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) into the affairs of Bovale Developments Ltd over a two year period in his bid to have developer brothers Michael and Thomas Bailey disqualified from managing any company on grounds of alleged misconduct and fraud in relation to the affairs of Bovale.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was behind a £750,000 “golden handshake” to former foreign minister Ray Burke to persuade him to resign from the Cabinet a decade ago, it was claimed yesterday.

THE Government has defended its decision to provide less than half of the extra staff sought by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE).

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey is still in search of the source of the White Nile so Allan Prosser gets a recall to mediate over your views and opinions again this week.

More than ten of the country's wealthiest individuals are being targeted by the Director of Corporate Enforcement.

NOSEY hacks are not allowed into the Fianna Fáil tent so one can only imagine how folks must have caught up on what was a very interesting financial year for some of its patrons.

The two brothers who run Bovale developments have confirmed they have made a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners which is understood to be in the region of €25m.

Catering giant Compass is to sell its travel services operation which includes the Upper Crust and Moto chains for £1.82bn (€2.6bn).

O’FLYNN Construction, one of Cork’s largest firms, has joined the growing list of companies to switch to unlimited liability corporate status.

OVER 33 sometimes tedious, and more often entertaining, days in the witness box at Dublin Castle in 1999, James Gogarty achieved a fame that few octogenarians experience.

JMCC Holdings, the engineering company at the centre of the planning corruption tribunal, paid out €16.3 million dividends to its shareholders last year.

THE cuts in European Union sugar subsidies announced yesterday are likely to end Ireland’s sugar industry and put 3,750 beet growers out of work.

BARRY’S TEA has joined the list of companies opting to give up its limited liability status.

TOM and MICHAEL BAILEY, the controversial builders criticised at the Planning Tribunal, have applied to re-register their company as unlimited.

WHILE it's some consolation to the public that Ray Burke won't be admiring the north Dublin trees for a few months, the fact remains that he'll make more money than most of us during his sojourn in Arbour Hill prison for tax offences.

Taxpayers should not be expected to pay countless millions to keep the Mahon Tribunal into planning corruption going for more than a decade, it was claimed tonight.

A 28-YEAR-OLD mechanic was stabbed to death with a sword during a row with his neighbour, a court heard yesterday.

GEORGE REDMOND, who is serving a 12-month prison sentence on corruption charges, could face further criminal prosecutions for the same offence after the latest interim report by the Planning Tribunal found he had received bribes from two businessmen in the late 1980s.

IF George Redmond felt the world ceased to exist upon his arrest by the Criminal Assets Bureau at Dublin Airport four years ago, he must surely believe the heavens collapsed entirely on his life yesterday.

FORMER assistant Dublin city and county manager George Redmond lodged sums of money equivalent to the value of “a substantial house” each year since the early 1960s to his bank accounts, according to the Planning Tribunal.

The Planning Tribunal’s latest interim report has found that former council official George Redmond received corrupt payments from two property developers.

The Planning Tribunal’s report into the activities of George Redmond will reportedly be published later today.

THE outcome of the multi- million-euro compensation row between a county council and British property firm Jackson Way will be known within six weeks, the arbitrator has said.

DISGRACED former Fianna Fáil minister Ray Burke and several leading businessmen who obstructed the Flood Tribunal may have their multi-million euro legal fees paid by the taxpayer.

FORMER minister Ray Burke was handed £30,000 in cash at his home in north Dublin in June 1989 and knew it was for his support and influence in rezoning lucrative development land, the Flood Tribunal has concluded.

Compass has bought up a handful of Swissair's catering businesses for £41m.

Compass says the US terror attacks will cost it £5m.

The Flood Tribunal is due to resume in Dublin Castle this morning.