The most celebrated colours in National Hunt racing were yesterday worn in a poignant tribute to a young jockey who died last Friday at the racing establishment in Co Limerick where he was an apprentice.

New inspection reports on creches will be available online “in a couple of weeks”, Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald said yesterday as the HSE came in for strong criticism over the Prime Time programme exposing abuses within the system.

The long-awaited RTÉ documentary on standards in Irish creches saw children spending up to two hours a day being strapped into highchairs as they screamed to get out.

The Prime Time Investigates documentary on creches, 'A Breach of Trust', is to be broadcast tonight.

Childcare organisations are calling on the Government to fund improved training of childcare staff as they try to dampen down a “crisis of confidence” created by revelations about substandard practice at three Dublin creches.

The Tánaiste has said allegations of children being mishandled and yelled at by staff at three Dublin creches will be given “highest priority”.

The Government is deeply concerned over allegations of mistreatment of children at a number of creches, the Tánaiste has said.

An exclusive creche probed during an undercover investigation into allegations of mistreatment of children has confirmed it has sacked one worker and suspended three others.

Nama has set its sights on diamonds — rings, bracelets and necklaces.

The driveway has gone mossy, the study is a bit dark and the kitchen rather uninspiring; but if you have a flare for home decor, a fondness for Celtic Tiger relics and €1.65m to spare, the former home of a banking legend could be your not-so-humble abode.

THE estate agent tasked with selling former Anglo Irish Bank chief David Drumm’s former home in north Co Dublin faces an uphill battle, as no fewer than five other houses in the exclusive estate are already on the market.

Stoneacre combines a top-end finish by its designer owners with gorgeous gardens and a spectacular setting, writes Tommy Barker.

A HIGH Court judge has made formal orders overturning the controversial transfer by former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm of his half share of his former family home at Malahide, Co Dublin, into the sole ownership of his wife.

A NUMBER of orders made by the High Court yesterday are expected to help clear the way for the sale of former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm’s former family home in Malahide by the US official administering his bankruptcy.

THE US official administering the bankruptcy of former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm is expected to indicate to the Commercial Court shortly whether she intends to maintain his defence to proceedings in which the bank is seeking orders requiring Mr Drumm repay loans of some €8 million.

THE US trustee administering the bankruptcy of former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm was yesterday granted an order in the High Court to sell off his €2.3 million home in Malahide, Co Dublin.

ANGLO Irish Bank has secured costs orders against Lorraine Drumm, wife of its former chief executive David Drumm, arising from the effective settlement of proceedings against her over the transfer of the Drumm’s former family home in Malahide, Co Dublin, into her sole ownership.

AN order restraining the wife of former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm from certain dealings with the couple’s former family home in Co Dublin has been continued at the Commercial Court for another two weeks.

I DON’T how President Mary McAleese did it. Last Friday she and her husband Martin entertained Ian Paisley and his wife Eileen at Áras an Uachtarán.

POP star Ronan Keating returned to his Dublin home yesterday in a bid to patch up his shattered marriage.

SHE called him Ro, he called her his “rock” but now they’ve both decided to call it a day.

CURIOSITY factor is high in the case of quirky, harbour-side homes, as evidenced by the flood of cars down to see last weekend’s featured property, the upmarket Horse Head scheme in Cork’s Passage West.

Tommy Barker on a development that’s giving a harbour town a boost

THERE'S no getting away from Ronan Keating: he is up the charts, in the glossy magazine, on the TV chat shows, he is supposedly buying a Co Mayo island for over €1 million (untrue), and he lives almost over the fence from this Malahide, North Co Dublin home, up for sale with a €2.4 million price guide.