Taoiseach Enda Kenny has rejected Opposition calls for a Commission of Inquiry into the sale of Nama’s northern loan book, following the arrests of two men in a fraud investigation linked to the sale, writes Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner.

On its election, the Coalition promised a democratic revolution but in four years in power it has offered nothing but more of the same, says Lucinda Creighton

Finance Minister Micheal Noonan is facing criticism after he admitted that junior Anglo bondholders may be handed a €280m payout.

Finance Minister Micheal Noonan has refused to lift the threat of setting Revenue Commissioners onto people taking part in a proposed mass boycott of water charges.

Finance Minister Micheal Noonan says a number of decisions around water charges will be announced in the coming weeks.

Thousands of people took the streets over the weekend to tell the Government that they won’t be paying their water charges.

When is tea not tea? When it’s a herbal tea, according to the taxman.

Nearly three years after investigations into what happened in the collapse of Custom House Capital (CHC), it is still unclear as to what assets the company owns.

The special liquidators appointed to the former Anglo Irish Bank have agreed to sell most of the €2.5bn loan book know as Project Evergreen.

The Oireachtas finance committee has clarified that homeowners will be able to claim for tax relief of 13.5% on home improvement works if the total spent exceeds €5,000.

Companies operating in Ireland have been obliged to provide a country of residence since 1999, according to the Revenue’s own guidelines which impose a daily fine for failing to provide the relevant details.

The Government placed jobs at the centre of its budget speeches, announcing 25 schemes ranging from tax reliefs to targeting the black economy.

The former special economic adviser to Brian Lenihan, Alan Ahearne, believes that the much vaunted successes of Finance Minster Micheal Noonan in renegotiating the Anglo promissory notes were simply part of the bailout programme.

The Central Bank has appointed a French official to take over as financial regulator, the second foreigner in succession to fill the role.

The Central Bank’s new multi-million euro outsourced computer system has already crashed following a power outage at Hewlett Packard which has been hired to handle the bank’s IT systems.

Developer John Flynn is unlikely to recover any money from IBRC following his case alleging that he had been overcharged on €150m worth of loans from the former Anglo Irish Bank.

Voters may be asked next year to give TDs sweeping powers to apportion blame for the banking crisis in a rerun of the failed Oireachtas inquiries referendum.

Irish credit unions have lent €1.1bn to their members in the last 12 months, delegates of the Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) heard over the weekend.

There is outrage among opposition TDs that the Central Bank has chosen to go ahead with the outsourcing of its IT systems, despite high profile failures of crucial banking systems in Ulster Bank last year.

Ministers must step in to halt “obscene” pay increases at bailed-out banks, opposition TDs have insisted.

It is not overstating the case to argue that talks around the possibility of a renewed Croke Park deal are as important to the country’s future as the bank debt deal secured in recent weeks.

Nearly 7,000 mortgage holders lost their mortgage interest relief after failing to make payments on their homes last year.

A call centre for the State’s new water company Uisce Éireann is to create 400 jobs in Limerick, sources close to Finance Minister Micheal Noonan said yesterday.

The early enactment of the Credit Union Bill has cleared the way for a taxpayer-funded bailout of the credit union sector to the tune of €250m.

A supertax introduced to curb bankers’ bonuses has done just that and returned no money to the exchequer as the covered banks have stopped paying employees cash bonuses.

Multinational management consultancy Accenture is receiving tax relief on the $7bn (€5.4bn) it spent building up a portfolio of intellectual property rights.

The Finance Minister Micheal Noonan has said there was a personality clash between Roisin Shortall and the Health Minister James Reilly which could not be resolved.

Finance Minister Micheal Noonan has downplayed suggestions senior bondholders in bailed out banks could be forced to take major losses.

One of the largest construction firms in Europe, Royal BAM, has called on the Government to provide a stimulus package to the sector by providing public private partnership contacts.

Canada used to be the most boring country in the hemisphere, but its political scene has now been disturbed in the most gruesome of fashions

Fittingly, the lacklustre referendum campaign finally died of embarrassment in the very place it had been trapped in all along — a dead end.

The Central Bank investigation into the collapse of Bloxham stockbrokers will focus on how the company managed to conceal a multimillion-euro shortfall in minimum capital requirements for a number of years.

Finance Minister Micheal Noonan said that he was satisfied with the levels of accountability in Nama after coming under pressure to change the rules governing how the agency disposes of property under its control.

Micheal Noonan, the finance minister, is not in favour of introducing a financial transaction tax as the Department of Finance says Ireland already has one — stamp duty.

It is Enda Kenny’s lifestyle choice and we shouldn’t judge him for it.

Ministers are putting the “frighteners” on people in order to try and force a yes vote on the fiscal treaty, Socialist TD Joe Higgins has said.

The Government has never submitted any documentation to the ECB on the renegotiation of the promissory notes, according to a member of the bank.

Struggling families in danger of being dragged under by the debt crisis have been warned they may not get extra help this year.

On a gloomy note and under dreary skies, the bailout troika packed their briefcases and left Ireland after the halfway review of the bailout programme.

The Government is planning to create a third performing Irish bank by moving €12.5bn of Permanent TSB’s loans into a bad bank.

So, Spain escapes the pain, Greece is let off the leash, but Ireland is still expected to take a good hiding from the EU — why?

A New York hedge fund, Fir Tree Capital, is due to have €152 million worth of subordinated Anglo bonds repaid in full after refusing to take the 80% haircut imposed on bondholders.

Micheal Noonan, the finance minister, has given the strongest signal yet that a deal with the ECB on massive Anglo debts may be in sight.

PENSIONERS in revolt over rough treatment, education cuts protesters besieging Leinster House and ministers dismissing talk of an IMF bailout as “ludicrous” — sadly, the first day of the Dáil felt just like any of its last 500 days.