A fund's application for a €1.7m judgment against former AIB and Central Bank director Bernard Somers in relation to a loan secured on various assets, including his home in Foxrock, Dublin, has been adjourned by the Commercial Court.

A man who was one of a group of three that slashed 128 tyres because of “some sort of complaint they had about capitalism” has been give a chance to avoid prison by coming up with compensation and getting into a college course..