Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry is looking at options that could include joint ventures, partnerships or a sale of the company as it struggles to survive against stiff competition

Fairfax Financial Holdings — which has seen its 2011 investment in Ireland’s biggest bank jump about 50% — is now focusing on Greece, betting that the worst has passed for the recession-battered nation.

Those distinguished former Bank of Ireland governors must be turning in their graves.

Representatives of two of the five investment firms which bought into Bank of Ireland last summer have taken seats on its board.

Bank of Ireland has announced the appointment of Archie Kane as Governor Designate with immediate effect.