The board of a West Cork credit union has said "it is simply not credible" to claim a High Court order to wind it up had safeguarded the public interest.

The ransom paid to release Ben Dunne from IRA kidnappers in 1981 had nothing to do with then taoiseach Charles Haughey, the businessman has claimed.

A landowner who the ESB and Eirgrid claimed had obstructed upgrade work on the Co Donegal electricity network system has agreed to let works be carried out on his land.

There have been many banking scandals in Ireland through the years but after the initial outrage, nothing ever really changes, says Michael Clifford.

SOMETIMES, the circus gets out of hand. Last Sunday, a Government minister decried the slow rate of progress in criminal investigations into the banking collapse and the results from tribunal reports.

THE Elite national senior boxing championships got under way at the National Stadium last night when an action-packed programme featured eight welterweight contests involving some of the best boxers in the world.

CON SHEEHAN (Clonmel BC),the defending champion, andthe new pretender to the throne, Tommy McCarthy (Oliver Plunkett, Belfast), served up the best performance of an action packed weekend when they met in the quarter finals of the heavyweight division at the Elite national boxing championships at the National Stadium on Saturday night.

ROSS HICKEY, who won a national senior title at lightweight back in 2008, launched his campaign at light-welter at last night’s national elite championships at the National Stadium with victory over Crumlin’s Stephen Carroll.

A HUG for Little Bunny by Steve Smallman and Janet Samuel (Little Tiger Press; €8.80) is a padded board book for toddlers.

JOHN JOE NEVIN and Katie Taylor completed a fantastic season by claiming the top awards at the IABA Annual Awards ceremony at the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel in Dublin last night.

CONFLICTS of interest like those exposed by the Moriarty tribunal between AIB and Charles Haughey could still happen, the Green Party warned last night.

OVER a 20-year period, Charles J Haughey went through £8.5 million.

BY accepting £750,000 to settle his £1 million-plus debt, Allied Irish Bank (AIB) made an “indirect payment” to Charles J Haughey, the Moriarty Tribunal found.

CHARLES J HAUGHEY was the sixth of our retired leaders since the foundation of the State to die, and the real debate on his legacy is likely to begin today.

WITH the fiasco of the privatisation of Eircom behind us and talk of the privaitisation of Aer Lingus ahead, the death of one time property tycoon Patrick Gallagher and the demise of the sugar factory in Mallow are a grim reminder that we have lost the old sense of social responsibility.

WHEN Charles Haughey was elected leader of Fianna Fáil on December 7, 1979, he had a dark secret.

Former property tycoon Patrick Gallagher has reportedly died in Dublin at the age of 54.

Director Payne chalks up another success - and one with much associated talk of Oscars.

A man who racially abused a fast food worker on the day of his daughter’s christening was branded a fool by a judge today.

A Derry woman who was being questioned about the death of her husband earlier this week has been released without charge pending further inquiries.

A woman was questioned tonight about the death of her husband of just four weeks.

Police in Derry have named the man who died in suspicious circumstances as 49-year-old Patrick Gallagher.

Heirlooms belonging to the Kennedy family dynasty – including a Father’s Day card from JFK Junior to the former president and a letter from the Queen – were stolen from a top auction house in New York, it emerged today.

The Moriarty Tribunal, which was established in 1997 to investigate payments made to former Taoiseach Charles Haughey and former Fine Gael Minister Michael Lowry, is six years old today.

FORMER Taoiseach Charles Haughey is likely to come under pressure to sell off another part of his beloved Abbeville estate to finance a €5m tax bill.

Four Irishmen charged with making a pipe bomb following a dawn raid in west London have been remanded in custody.