The banking inquiry is to decide on Monday whether to allow former Anglo chief executive David Drumm to give evidence from the US by video link next Wednesday to get around legal issues with his return to Ireland.

Ex-taoiseach Bertie Ahern has insisted he was never told about the specifics of developer Seán Quinn’s issues with Angle Irish Bank — despite a private meeting at his home with Brian Cowen days after the 2008 St Patrick’s Day stock exchange “massacre”.

All but one of the Anglo Irish officials central to the economic crash are set to escape any public banking inquiry grilling over their role in the financial scandal.

Mr. Liam O’Mahony asks whether those “attired in clerical garb” at a demonstration were victims of hate crime as a result of “aggressive and confrontational” behaviour towards them.

A blood test that can detect more than 600 hereditary diseases before conception will shortly be available north of the border.

Irish scientists have developed a €25 bowel cancer blood test kit that can spot the potentially lethal disease at an early stage.

Up to 475 jobs could be created by a Donegal-based medical diagnostics company as part of a major €25m investment over the next six years.

A major jobs announcement and investment package that has the potential to transform the knowledge economy of the north-west is expected to be made by a leading research and manufacturing centre today.

In his letter to this paper Fr. Con McGillicuddy (September 2) lists story’s which he believes RTÉ has in some way been negative in their reporting towards the Catholic Church.

"Americans are welcome in Waterville", locals insist

Uh-oh. This is bad…

A motorist has told an inquest into the death of a man who was walking on a dual carriageway when he was struck by a car that he did not have time to stop.

A medical diagnostics firm has landed an €8m deal with suppliers in Mexico that will see its products used across the country’s clinics and hospitals.

David Drumm carried out a number of personal financial moves that coincided with Anglo’s demise, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

The infamous bank guarantee scheme is the basis for a new play, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The Government moved to try turn anger over the Anglo tapes onto former Fianna Fáil ministers by insisting they reveal what they knew about the scandal.

The country’s second most senior Catholic cleric says the “smugness” laid bare in the Anglo tapes jars with the desperate conditions many victims of the economic collapse now suffer.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny pledged to uncover the truth behind “the axis of collusion” between Anglo bankers and Fianna Fáil but rejected calls for an independent banking probe.

Tapes unearthed in 2009 show regulators knew some of Anglo’s difficulties, investigative correspondent Conor Ryan.

SPEAKING on RTÉ radio recently, a farmer, summing up a dismal year, sadly muttered: “the slugs got the better of us” — a fitting epitaph, if ever there was one, for Anglo Irish Bank.

Taped phone calls from inside the walls of the bust Anglo Irish Bank have so far revealed the attitudes of just three key players.

Government ministers were unaware that conversations between former Anglo Irish bankers were recorded.

Anglo staff laughed and joked about abusing the bank guarantee in the days after its introduction, according to further transcripts of conversations between Anglo Irish Bank executives.

Pressure is growing for an inquiry into the banking collapse amid outcry over revelations that executives at Anglo Irish Bank lied about the scale of the crisis at the bank at a critical time when the then government was deciding how to intervene.

THE smoking gun has been found in the debris of Anglo Irish Bank.

THE latest revelations in the taped conversations between two Anglo Irish Bank executives are explosive.

The 11-minute recording is of a telephone conversation between two senior members of Anglo’s management, John Bowe, head of capital markets, and Peter Fitzgerald, director of retail banking, on Sept 18, 2008.

Details of the leaked transcript conversation between two officials of the Anglo Irish Bank — John Bowe, director of capital markets, and Peter Fitzgerald, director of retail banking — make for distressing reading.

Fianna Fáil says Anglo Irish Bank set a trap to lure the government, the Central Bank and the Irish people.

The Taoiseach said that he can understand the anger and the rage provoked in people by the leaked secret Anglo tapes.

Tape recordings of conversations between top executives inside Anglo Irish Bank in 2008 - published by the Irish Independent today - show that one executive knew that the total cost of bailing out the bank would be much higher than they were telling the government at the time.

Eight years ago this month, the then Garda commissioner Noel Conroy announced details of the new system to handle informants in the wake of the scathing criticism of the Morris Tribunal reports into abuses among the force in Donegal.

John Young got the most significant win so far in the Junior A championship when he beat Jerry Gibbons in the last shot of an enthralling contest at Drinagh on Monday.

I agree with Matt Cooper (Jul 14) when he says we ought to have a rational public debate about alcohol consumption, but unfortunately I feel we all know, including Mr Cooper, it’s never going to happen.

So, “Irish soccer fans are the best fans in the world” — or so we are told endlessly by RTE sports personalities and numerous reporters.

Louth forward Shane Lennon has confirmed that he will not be back playing for the county until next year.

Fine Gael has denied excluding party TD Olivia Mitchell from its ard fheis following criticism in the Mahon Tribunal of “inappropriate” payments she received.

IN a way having read your brilliant article by Colette Brown (Opinion, Dec 21), I’m not surprised at the attitudes of the men in question.

Almost 250 new jobs are being created at a major bio-technology company in Co Antrim.

Following the dramatic happenings in the Dail on Tuesday evening and the subsequent fall-out, the Government will hardly be looking forward to the vote on the Dog Breeding Establishment Bill next week.

IRISH Life & Permanent has definite plans to develop the banking arm of its business, but will wait until the restructuring of the other banks have been put in place before any moves are made.

Another 23 jobs are to be created at one of the North’s top medical equipment companies.

135 jobs are to be created in the Donegal Gaeltacht, the first major employment boost for the area since local TD Mary Coughlan was appointed Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise.