With impeccable timing, three new tenants are moving into Cork’s city’s gem-like boulevard, the Winthrop Arcade, via agents Lisney.

Bertie Ahern has defended his record as Taoiseach at the Banking Inquiry; See the moment a helicopter crashes into a Longford pub; and a US judge has allowed the release of dashcam videos showing police killing an unarmed man in a suburb of LA, after he took off his hat. Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com round-up.

Forget about crowd-funding - emerging companies in Ireland are turning to peer-to-peer funding to get their business ventures off the ground.

Michael Bohane will play Raymond Ryan in next Sunday’s Munster Intermediate final at Lyre.

The Social Media Awards are taking place tomorrow night, and we’re excitedly picking out the perfect socks to wear, charging up our phones for a night of tweeting, and bracing ourselves for the mountain of chocolate we’ve been promised.

St Luke’s walls have witnessed more intrigue than a box-set of House of Cards, writes Michael Cifford

Jeweller Michael Wall has come up with a gem of an idea to donate a sizeable number of precious stones to the National Museum of Ireland.

Over 13,000 carats of gems are being donated to the National Museum by a Cork-based diamond and gem broker.

PJ Cooney and Davey Fitzgerald had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship during a weekend packed with championship scores in all grades.

A group of Cork’s hardiest business leaders toughed-out the rain and the cold to sleep rough in Cork City Gaol last night to raise up to €400,000 for homeless charity Focus Ireland.

She’s not likely to make a habit of it, but 76-year-old Presentation nun Sr Patricia Wall successfully completed her charity skydive at a sun- drenched Galway yesterday.

Water shortages are looming after local authority workers threatened industrial action if they are not consulted properly over the setting up of Irish Water.

Government plans to introduce water charges have hit a major stumbling block with 2,500 local authority staff preparing for strike action out of fear for their jobs.

Martin Coppinger beat Aidan Murphy in the last shot of a brilliant three-way Munster championship play-off at Skibbereen on Sunday — with James O’Donovan third.

Bertie Ahern lied when accounting for more than £215,000 of money lodged to bank accounts connected to him, the tribunal believes.

A witness to Bertie Ahern’s 14 days of squirming in the witness box of the Mahon corruption probe, political correspondent Shaun Connolly delivers his damning verdict.

The country's biggest corruption inquiry has found former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern did not truthfully account for bank lodgements and savings totalling around IR£275,000.

The Mahon tribunal has found former taoiseach Bertie Ahern did not truthfully account for bank lodgements and savings totalling around IR£275,000.

TRADE union officials will meet Wicklow County Council today for the first time since it emerged the local authority is likely to be prosecuted over the deaths of two firemen in Bray in September 2007.

THOUSANDS of small investors have been stung following the appointment of a receiver to a community-run television company which tried to set up a digital service.

Cavan 0-16 Warwickshire 0-12

BERTIE AHERN is finished.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern has denied any suggestion that he used a Manchester-based businessman Michael Wall as a front to buy his home in Dublin in the mid-1990s.

A MANCHESTER businessman has admitted forgetting to inform the Mahon Tribunal that he had left Bertie Ahern a house in Dublin because he didn’t believe the document that bequeathed the property to him was a will.

A £2,000 STERLING donation from a Manchester businessman to aid a Fianna Fáil election campaign ended up in a bank account specifically set up to fund refurbishment work on Bertie Ahern’s constituency office, it emerged yesterday.

Manchester businessman Michael Wall has told the Mahon tribunal that there was no discussion of rent with Bertie Ahern before he bought a house, which the former Taoiseach rented from him in the 1990s, in Drumcondra, Dublin.

SHE was the Queen of Hearts, he was the king of dig-outs - and both were laid low by vast conspiracies orchestrated by their enemies.

TÁNAISTE Mary Harney and Environment Minister John Gormley did yesterday what a growing number of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s disconcerted colleagues have been doing for some time, but at least, and at last, they did it in public.

BERTIE Ahern’s purchase of his Drumcondra home was at the centre of fresh controversy last night as questions were raised whether files given to the Mahon corruption probe had been altered.

A YOUNG man died after ingesting a large amount of cocaine at his girlfriend’s house.

There was an onus on the Taoiseach to explain all the circumstances to the tribunal, but this did not happen, writes Political Editor Harry McGee.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday admitted he could not recall where, when or how stg£30,000 was purchased by him to pay back businessman Michael Wall.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern agreed yesterday that a mathematical formula, developed by his legal team to show a controversial lodgement in the mid-1990s was made in sterling, did not stand up to scrutiny.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was accused yesterday of failing in his obligations to reveal bank transactions to the Mahon Tribunal. He had left “significant gaps” in his original evidence, noted Judge Alan Mahon.

BERTIE AHERN yesterday admitted he did not inform the tribunal about purchasing stg£30,000 to pay back businessman Michael Wall despite it being a “unique” event.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday gave the Mahon Planning Tribunal three different reasons for withdrawing IR£50,000 in cash from a bank account.

BERTIE AHERN rounded on tribunal lawyers yesterday defending himself against the inquiry’s “grilling”.

DURING his third day of questioning, the Taoiseach agreed the stg£68,000 in five payments he was being quizzed over were “memorable”.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will return to the Mahon Tribunal early next week to face further questions on his financial affairs during the 1990s.

The Taoiseach's legal representatives have been engaging in tense exchanges with lawyers for the Mahon Tribunal as Bertie Ahern enters the witness box for his third day of questioning.

EXPLAINING Bertie Ahern’s finances feels like trying to catch a tenner that you’ve dropped on a breezy day. Just when you think you have grasped it, another gust of wind carries it away.

A GREEN Party TD yesterday said he was “not surprised” by any of the evidence presented to the Mahon Tribunal given the culture of corporate and political donations which has long existed.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern failed to provide background details to bank lodgments in an order of discovery, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern landed the first blow at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday when he preempted lawyers’ questions by insisting in an opening statement he was the victim of “hearsay” and “baseless” allegations.