The Department of Finance has launched a process to ensure no more files go missing ahead of the banking enquiry.

THERE’S a huge emphasis on the coastal areas of the country for holiday and retreat homes, and the interior heartland is sometimes ignored.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern angrily rejected a suggestion that he was wrong to claim last May that the Mahon tribunal had not given him information about sterling lodgments that could have saved his former secretary, Gráinne Carruth, from returning to give evidence.

The Mahon Tribunal has heard that a tax advisor informed Bertie Ahern that money he received from friends in the early 1990s was untaxable.

FALLING vocations yesterday led the Brothers of Charity to end a 124-year-old legacy of running its extensive intellectual disability service as a religious order.

A HUGELY successful Irish-made children’s animated religious series is due for a new run of episodes on the small screen.