Three former banking executives convicted of taking part in a €7bn fraud will be sentenced on Friday.

The former Group Chief Executive of Irish Life and Permanent Group has been convicted of a €7.2bn conspiracy to defraud.

A jury has acquitted the former finance director of Irish Life and Permanent (IL&P) of helping Anglo Irish Bank defraud the markets in 2008 in a €7.2bn scheme.

Two former executives from Anglo Irish Bank have been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the public in 2008.

The jury in the trial of four former bankers accused of conspiracy to defraud in 2008 has begun its deliberations.

Stephanie Browne, who received one of her mother’s kidneys six months ago, was the first patient treated at the newly refurbished national kidney transplant unit.

An accounting expert has denied being confused about “labyrinthine” accounting standards while giving evidence at the trial of four former bankers accused of conspiring to mislead investors.

A man has been excused from serving on the jury in the ongoing trial of four former executives from Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Life and Permanent (ILP).

Anglo Irish Bank management discussed disguising short-terms loans of €750m from Irish Life and Permanent and keeping the details “tight as a duck’s arse”, the trial of former banking executives has heard.

A banner fell off a flagpole at the National Library in Dublin and struck a passing saleswoman, the Circuit Civil Court has heard.

The State requires an enlarged jury panel to deal with the case of former Anglo Irish Bank executive William McAteer and three co-accused, the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard this morning.

Inspirational Operation Transformation leader Deirdre O’Donovan told 19 hopefuls facing the final cut yesterday she lost seven stone (about 44kg) and gained a “fantastic” lifestyle in just 12 months.

Former Anglo Irish Bank executive William McAteer and three co-accused will stand trial in 2016 on charges of conspiring to mislead the bank’s investors about the true value of the its deposit books.

Lots of hardy annuals at Ireland’s biggest garden festival got a good watering yesterday.

A novel about the troubled adolescence of five sisters was the inspiration behind an award-winning collection by a talented young fashion student.

Jacqueline Kennedy’s letters to an elderly priest reveal a delightful person, according to Philip Sheppard, the auctioneer charged with selling them.

Sligo AC retained their men’s title while Leevale’s women went on the roll of honour for the first time at the Woodie’s DIY National Road Relay Championships in Raheny, Dublin yesterday.

One of four men accused of taking part in the kidnapping of a Securicor worker and his family and the robbery of the firm of €2.28m has been found guilty on day 49 of the trial.

Three former senior bank executives are to stand trial accused of conspiring to mislead Anglo Irish Bank investors by transferring €7.2bn to Anglo to give the impression it had larger deposits.

Sinead O'Connor is to marry her boyfriend Barry Herridge tomorrow.

A MAN who refused to pay a speeding fine in what he called “a gesture of civil disobedience” against a state he believed was acting as “a slush fund to pay gangster bankers” has escaped censure for his act of defiance.

A lack of senior control over the hospital care of a young nurse undergoing IVF treatment before she died was highlighted in an official report published today.

The family of Winnie Brady, who died while on a pilgrimage to Bosnia-Herzegovina last year, were today arranging to have her body returned to Ireland.

AN official from the Irish Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has been appointed to co-ordinate efforts to find an Irish woman who disappeared more than a week ago while on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.

A former garda officer who has admitted possessing child pornography is to spend four months in a sex offenders' institute, it emerged today.

THE last surviving member of the recruits which founded the Garda Síochána was laid to rest yesterday.

THEY’RE champion snorers, firm friends and joint favourites to win cult TV series Treasure Island.

Three men arrested after a Garda swoop on an alleged meeting of the Real IRA in a Co Meath hotel have been refused bail by the Special Criminal Court.

Four men arrested after Special Branch detectives swooped on dissident republicans at a Co Meath hotel were further remanded in custody for a fortnight at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.