BALLYMORE Properties has not gone away.

The mystery over why Anglo and Irish Nationwide were included in the blanket bank guarantee deepened after another senior banker said yesterday that he advised the Government not to include the stricken firms in the deal.

Ballymore Group, led by prominent Irish developer Sean Mulryan, is combining with a Malaysian property investment company to develop three London sites in a €2.8bn joint venture.

The Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) continue to pick up landmark properties in Dublin, while in London Ballymore hunts €2.4bn finance to construct 3,000 houses.

One of Ireland’s best known developers, Sean Mulryan, last year shared a pay pot of €342,236 with one other director in spite of mounting losses at a number of his Irish-based building firms.

The British arm of Seán Mulryan’s Ballymore Developments returned to profit last year to record pre-tax profits of £4.3m (€5.14m).

Pre-tax profits at a private hospital co-owned by beef baron Larry Goodman and developer Sean Mulryan last year rose by 4% to €2.66m.

Pre-tax losses at the international arm of Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore Developments increased by 51% last year to €222.1m.

One of Ireland’s most successful property developers and the man who told the Moriarty Tribunal he never gave the former taoiseach, Charles Haughey “a penny in his life, or a pound”, has passed away.

A former political lobbyist has admitted that he told “big lies about important matters” when he gave evidence to a tribunal 13 years ago.

The extent to which Michael “Fingers” Fingleton claimed expenses from his former employer to fund a lavish outlay on designer goods, exclusive hotels, and extravagant entertainment of developers was laid bare in court yesterday.

Losses at several of Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore firms increased last year with accumulated losses at four subsidiaries topping €162m.

Pre-tax losses at a UK arm of Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore group last year topped £372m (€457m).

Junior Government Minister Fergus O'Dowd has today defended Nama after reports emerged that it is paying salaries of more than €100,000 to 66 developers.

The Ballymore Group has won council approval for a plan to turn a former DHL depot and adjoining land into almost 2,000 houses at a site beside Battersea Power Station in London.

Accumulated losses at the Sean Mulryan-controlled Galway Bay Golf and County Club widened to €12.2 million last year, new figures show.

A HOUSE-BUILDING firm controlled by developer Seán Mulryan recorded combined losses of €58.8 million in 2009 and 2010, company accounts confirm.

PRE-tax losses at the international property operation run by one of the country’s best-known developers, Sean Mulryan, last year jumped 83% to €119.2 million.

BAILED-OUT developers are set to receive salaries and expenses from NAMA, it has emerged, but the toxic bank last night insisted it would not be supporting lavish lifestyles.

IT is expected that the transfer of the first tranche of bad bank loans to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) will happen shortly.

IN Compliance is likely to make his comeback after nearly two years off the track at Thurles next month.

PROPERTY companies were the standout donors to political parties ahead of their last election campaign, a probe of accounts can reveal.

THE Irish-based Drumaville Consortium behind Sunderland has paid just over £20m (€21.5m) for its investment in the Premier League club, according to 2007 figures available from Jersey’s Financial Services Commission (FSC).

PLANS for Ireland’s first skyscraper — the U2 Tower — has become the latest victim of the economic downturn.

Andre Fabre’s Thewayyouare, initially thought to be a candidate for the Vodafone Derby, will stay at home to contest the French equivalent six days earlier instead.

ANTE-POST punters have suffered a blow yesterday when trainer Martin Brassil revealed Numbersixvalverde had not been entered for the John Smith’s Grand National after failing to make sufficient progress from injury.

Ballymore have announced their sponsorship of the inaugural fifth day of the Punchestown Festival

Prolific French chaser Mid Dancer could still take on the best home-based talent in the Stan James King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day – despite a “technical error” meaning his name does not currently appear among the entries.

BALLYMORE PROPERTIES yesterday appointed David Brophy to the newly created position of chief operating officer for the company worldwide.

PAT SMULLEN continued his determined quest to regain the Jockeys Championship when partnering Graceful Star to victory in the opening two-year-old fillies maiden at Roscommon yesterday.

IN Compliance looks almost certain to miss the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup as trainer Michael O’Brien is unhappy with the horse’s condition.

NOEL MEADE is “pretty certain” the Ballymore Properties Novices’ Hurdle will be Aran Concerto’s target at next month’s Cheltenham Festival.

In Compliance will put his reputation as a credible candidate for the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup on the line at Fairyhouse on Saturday.

Edward O’Grady will take the wraps of a potentially interesting French recruit in the shape of Medicinal at Punchestown on Wednesday.

MICHAEL O’BRIEN will hold an exceptionally strong hand in Saturday’s Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Leopardstown with two runners, including the likely favourite In Compliance.

Forget The Past provided a boost to the chances of stable companion In Compliance in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup with a smooth success in the MacLochainn Road Markings Ltd Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles.

Forget The Past provided a boost to the chances of his stable companion In Compliance in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup with a smooth success in the MacLochainn Road Markings Ltd Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles.

Cheltenham Gold Cup third Forget The Past is on the road to recovery after suffering from a back problem.

Seemingly from nowhere, Martin Brassil has emerged as one of this country’s rising training talents over the past two years. But, as Declan Colley discovered, the quietly spoken Curragh handler prefers to let his charges do the talking for him.

ROBERT WINSTON will have to wait a little longer to hear if he has been successful in his application that he has “no case to answer” in relation to corruption charges brought against him by the Horseracing Regulatory Authority.

Ballymore Properties are to succeed Royal & SunAlliance as sponsors of the Grade One novices’ hurdle run over two miles and five furlongs at the Cheltenham Festival.