RTÉ has been asked to explain what additional evidence it has on a creche owner facing trial for breaking child laws following an undercover exposé.

Two former Anglo Irish Bank executives have been sent forward for trial in connection with an alleged fraudulent €8m loan.

Abbey, the housebuilding group based in Co Meath, has stated that trading in the early months of its current financial year has been good, with activity across each of its regions ahead on an annualised basis.

A judge has ruled that it would be “incredibly unjust” to send two Anglo banking executives to jail as they were led into “error and illegality” by a state agency, the country’s financial watchdog.

The jury in a fraud trial of two Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme has begun a fourth day of deliberation.

The jury in a fraud trial of three Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme has been told it can return majority verdicts.

The jury in a fraud trial of three Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme have not reached a verdict after two full day’s deliberation.

The jury in a fraud trial of three Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme have not reached a verdict after their first full day of deliberations.

The jury in a fraud trial of three Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme has resumed deliberations.

The jury in a fraud trial of three Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme have been told to leave behind prejudices about the defunct lender and bankers when deliberating.

The jury in a fraud trial of three banking executives for a €625m loans-for-shares deal at the defunct Anglo Irish Bank have been told to leave behind prejudices about the lender when deliberating.

Two childcare workers who claim they were defamed in an RTÉ Prime Time programme about creches have secured Supreme Court orders directing RTÉ to give them copies of recordings of the programme in the format shown to some parents prior to the broadcast.

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

A former District Court judge has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison today after being convicted of deception.

A judge found guilty of attempting to deceive an elderly friend out of half his estate is to resign.

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.

Developer David Daly and his children have been granted leave by the High Court to challenge the demand by the National Assets Management Agency (Nama) for them to repay €457m they owe Allied Irish Bank.

THE “majority” of the top 30 property developers in NAMA have transferred property to the names of their wives, partners or other family members, the agency has confirmed.

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.

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.

A SENIOR doctor at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has been accused of professional misconduct over his alleged failure to properly diagnose the results of an MRI scan on a man who died a short time later.

A MOTHER has turned a homemade device she designed to help her daughter cope with dyslexia into a business project that could offer the same assistance to thousands of children.

FORMER Anglo Irish Bank chief executive, David Drumm, has made a series of proposals to the bank to try to settle its action against him aimed at securing repayment of loans of more than €8 million, the Commercial Court has heard.

The Republic of Ireland are training in Malahide, Co Dublin this morning as they commence their preparations for the visit of France to Croke Park on Saturday.

Asset-servicing company Equinoxe AIS is to expand its Irish operation with a new operation in Sligo. The move will bring 50 new jobs to the area.

ACCORDING to reports, Iarnród Éireann says the underwater inspection of the viaduct that collapsed in Malahide, Co Dublin, was carried out in line with regulations.

THE Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) warned yesterday the sector isfighting for its very survival.

A BUSINESSMAN has been ordered by the Commercial Court to pay €8.4 million following his alleged failure to honour a contract related to a development at Dublin’s Church Street. A similar judgment order is also being sought against a second man, a solicitor.

MORE than 1,000 people are expected in the Green Glens Arena, Millstreet, Co Cork, next month to mark the centenary of the Infant Jesus Sisters in Ireland.

KEVIN KELLY’S abiding memory from the moment he was stabbed was the feeling that death would have been preferable to the pain caused by the knife.

TEENAGE sex offenders have to travel abroad for proper treatment in an effort to stop them drifting into adult crime.

IRELAND faces the prospect of a blighted generation if something is not done to tackle the country’s chronic alcohol problem, the Eastern Regional Health Authority (EHRA) warned yesterday.

WHILE secondary school teachers throughout the country sweat anxiously over the fate of their Junior and Leaving Cert students, primary school teachers had a very different set of results on their mind yesterday.

MANY of the hundreds of people who came to worship the relics of St Anthony of Padua in a Dublin church yesterday weren’t looking for favours.

By Carl O'Brien

Gardai at Malahide, Co Dublin are seeking witnesses to a serious road accident which happened at Streamstown, Malahide at 5.10pm yesterday.

A GANG of thieves made an unusual withdrawal yesterday, when they ripped an ATM machine out of a wall and drove away with it in the back a stolen lorry.

A former garda presenter on RTE’s Crimeline programme has abandoned his bid to overturn a conviction of having solicited sex with a 12-year-old girl in a Limerick brothel.