Losses at a development company operated by entrepreneur Niall Mellon increased by €14.2m to €40.5m over two years.

A West Cork period home has been sold for about €4m after five years on the market.

LOSSES at a development company owned by entrepreneur Niall Mellon widened to €26.3 million in 2009, new figures show.

CLAPS and cheers heralded their arrival and while it wasn’t all a song and dance, students plumbed, painted and plastered as they saw a shell transform into a first-ever home for three generations of a family that had lived in a dark shack.

A COMPANY co-owned by horse trainer Aidan O’Brien has made a tax settlement of more than €500,000 with the Revenue Commissioners.

Champion Irish horse trainer Aidan O’Brien has been hit with a bill for more than €500,000 for unpaid tax.

A Dublin nightclub has been let keep its late licence after management gave an undertaking not to allow a “knickers for liquor” promotion at the venue again.

THE Niall Mellon Township Trust (NMTT) is on course to meet its target of housing 100,000 people in South Africa in the next number of months and will complete 3,500 homes this year.

The stunning and spacious Creadan Bay House has seen its price halved. Tommy Barker reports

THE High Court has made orders restricting the founder of a group of regional newspapers from holding directorships of companies for a period of five years unless certain capital requirements are met.

AN estate agent who wants to empower young children with a sense of purpose and justice through a cultural twinning programme has scooped a top award.

An estate agent who wants to empower young children with a sense of purpose and justice through a cultural twinning programme has scooped a top award.

A Judge has found that philanthropist Niall Mellon was defamed by a daily newspaper in a report claiming that he had sacked a personal assistant shortly before she was due to give birth.

THERE are contradictory, pre- and end-of Celtic era touches to Kilkenny’s Coolmore estate, on 242 acres.

A BITTER war of words between the founder of the Niall Mellon Irish Township Trust and the Government intensified last night.

DAMPNESS, dangerous wiring, inadequate insulation and plumbing.

BUILDING houses under the searing South African sun, legendary GAA commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh is a far cry from the comfort of his commentary box.

TOWNSHIP dweller Kenny Towke loves the Irish. When he met President Mary McAleese in the Áras last year she asked: “What kind of houses does the Niall Mellon Township Trust (NMTT) build for you?”

THE failed Voice Newspaper group that was backed by millionaire philanthropist Niall Mellon has appointed KPMG as liquidators to wind up the company with debts of €8.5 million.

SPECULATION is rising over the future of the Voice Newspaper Group, which has its head office in Kilkenny.

US PRESIDENTIAL contender Barack Obama needs Senator Hillary Clinton in some capacity, his former Irish-born foreign policy adviser said yesterday.

STAFF at four newspapers that closed down without warning last Friday have still not been paid even though they were promised payment yesterday.

PHILANTHROPIST Niall Mellon has raised his ambitions for this year’s South African township building blitz by 25% despite the downturn in the construction industry.

I HAD a hard time these past few weeks worrying — day in, day out — about our gallant Beyond Endurance team as they battled their way across the frozen Antarctic, dragging their meagre belongings behind them in the teeth of howling wind and suffering all manner of discomfort and danger.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today announced €5m in Irish Aid funding for the Niall Mellon Township Trust.

HOLLYWOOD star George Clooney has been nominated for the Tipperary Peace Prize for his work on Darfur, it emerged today.

Hollywood star George Clooney has been nominated for the Tipperary Peace Prize for his work on Darfur, it emerged today.

ON A night of surprise announcements, late on Friday philanthropist Niall Mellon told his army of volunteer builders he is taking his name off the charity he founded.

PHILANTHROPIST Niall Mellon has revealed plans to build the world’s first charity house factory which be believes can be used as a model to eradicated shanty-towns in developing countries.

IT IS not often a €2.75 million property deal is sealed with a hug and a tear in the middle of a shanty-town in South Africa.

ONE Dublin couple have taken the mantra of the Niall Mellon blitz to heart. In 2004, Gareth Lloyd, 28, and Catherine Williams, 32, arrived in South Africa as volunteers to do what the challenge promises — Build More than Houses.

A FIERCE wind drove coarse, dirty sand across the Freedom Park township in Cape Town throughout the weekend, caking a layer of grime over skin, clogging ears and turned the snot in your nose jet black.

THIS morning three chartered jumbo jets took off from Dublin, and one from Shannon, to ferry an army of tradesmen and volunteers for a week-long building frenzy in Africa.

A group of Irish volunteers have succeeded in building 70 homes for homeless people in South Africa in one week.

HUNDREDS of Irish volunteers arrive in South Africa today as party of an international effort to house impoverished families.

Mo Mowlam, Gerry Adams, a Brazilian nun and a millionaire builder have been nominated by the public for the 2005 Tipperary Peace Prize, it emerged today.

Nobel Prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu made a flying visit to Dublin today to back an housebuilding scheme which aims to transform lives in a township in South Africa.

Hundreds of Irish volunteers are heading to South Africa to build more than 100 houses for slum dwellers, following an official launch of a charity project today.

A group of builders from across Ireland have been honoured for constructing houses in one of the poorest townships of South Africa.