Bank of Ireland has signalled that it will continue to seek shortfall costs from people even after they have lost their home.

This took dedication.

Tributes poured in from the world of showbusiness for Lou Reed, the US musician and frontman of rock band Velvet Underground, who died aged 71 on Sunday.

State-owned AIB made a post provision loss of €758m for the first half of this year, which is down from €1,054m for the same period last year.

Even though AIB is still loss-making, it hopes to make a pre-provision profit in 2014, its chairman David Hodgkinson told shareholders at yesterday’s AGM.

It is believed that outgoing AIB chief financial officer Paul Stanley will become the next finance chief at Ulster Bank.

AIB is looking at debt writedown options to alleviate the repayment burden for certain borrowers, but is working on an affordability approach rather than blanket write-offs.

Paul Stanley would never be friends with Peter Criss or Ace Frehley again.

PAUL STANLEY, 33, a fire safety instructor from Donaghmeade, Co Dublin, describes his grief at the stillbirth of his first child, a son, Oisín.

KISS think 'Monster' is the best album they've created in a long time.

Gene Simmons has married Shannon Tweed.

AIB is to reorganise itself into a single business in what the bank called the most challenging change programme it has ever undertaken.

Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne was tonight named a living legend at the Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards.

Kiss lead singer and guitarist Paul Stanley had to bow out of a concert because of heart problems before the show.

AN Asian national appeared at a special sitting of Nenagh District Court yesterday charged in connection with an armed robbery of a betting shop at the weekend.

A woman who claims to be a former girlfriend of Kiss rocker Gene Simmons can proceed with a defamation lawsuit in which she says he made her sound like a “sex-addicted nymphomaniac” during a TV show, a judge in the US has ruled.