The State has asked the High Court to strike out an action for damages brought by the widower of murdered mother-of-two Sylvia Roche Kelly.

It is unlikely that Irish banks will be able to offload their loss-making tracker mortgages using the ECB’s asset-backed securities (ABS) programme.

ECB president Mario Draghi will announce an asset-backed securities purchasing programme at Thursday’s monthly meeting instead of unveiling plans for fully fledged quantitative easing.

A garda has been given High Court permission to challenge a decision to re-open a disciplinary complaint against him in connection with an investigation involving murderer Jerry McGrath.

IN his speech yesterday, the justice minister made reference to two of the cases included in the dossier compiled by Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said he has seen evidence alleging Gardaí failed to properly investigate serious crimes including murder and abduction.

Government rallies around justice minister amid calls for him to resign

The Gardaí has been accused of bad policing in dozens of investigations into murders, abductions and assaults.

The Garda ombudsman is investigating an allegation of a cover-up within the force in a case involving a criminal who committed murder when he was on bail for serious violent charges.

The low interest rate environment is forcing investors into more risky assets such as equities and property, but the lack of credit throughout the eurozone is putting a cap on opportunities.

For the sixth month in a row, the NTMA will issue a €500m three-month treasury bill tomorrow.

The markets have lost faith in the coalition government in the UK which means sterling will remain weak for the foreseeable future, said Lorcan Roche Kelly, chief european strategist with the US hedge fund, Trend Macro.

The NTMA will most likely issue a 10-year bond in the very near future to take advantage of the positive market sentiment towards Ireland following the agreement reached with the ECB over the restructuring of the promissory notes, says Lorcan Roche Kelly, chief European strategist with the US hedge fund, Trend Macro.

Investors piled into equities sending markets to two-year highs yesterday as most of the major macro-economic risks that threatened to derail the recovery now appear to be receding.

European investor sentiment is slowly improving, according to the Sentix Research Institute based in Germany.

The news that the giant global investment manager Franklin Templeton is the biggest holder of Irish government debt outside of the IMF and EU has put the economy in a spotlight before a series of crucial ECB/EU meetings.

Documents leaked over the past few days show that the Greek government is looking for a two-year extension on the €11.5bn fiscal consolidation programme it agreed with the EU and IMF over 2013 and 2014.

RENTS fell by just over half a percent last year compared with a drop of 15% during 2009, a new report from property website Daft has shown.

THE husband of murdered mother-of-two Sylvia Roche Kelly has demanded to know why her killer was let free to prey on her when he was already awaiting trial for two other savage crimes.

A 24 year-old Tipperary man who beat a woman to death in a Limerick hotel room just over a year ago has been jailed for life by the Central Criminal Court.

A TIPPERARY man was further remanded in custody on a charge of murder when he made a brief appearance yesterday at Limerick District Court.

A MAN in his 20s was last night questioned by gardaí in Limerick in connection with the death of Sylvia Roche Kelly whose naked body was found in a hotel bathroom last Saturday.

THE mother of two whose naked body was found in a bath in a Limerick hotel may have met her killer through an internet dating site.