THE Government has spent more than €230,000 in legal fees for advice on the aborted sale of Irish Life Assurance, but has not yet agreed how much it will pay Goldman Sachs for work on the almost-deal.The sizeable public bill for the €1.15bn deal, which c
OCCUPY Dame Street activists locked down the Department of Finance today in protest against the Government paying €1.25 billion to unsecured bondholders.Up to a dozen protesters have changed themselves together with special locking devices around the ent
THE "technical paper" being worked on by officials from the EC/ECB/IMF bailout team extends to the wider restructuring of the Irish banking system and not just ways to lower the cost of Anglo Irish Bank's €30bn bailout.The news comes after senior officia
"What the ECB has said to us and what the Troika has said to us -- it's on your head. We don't want you to want to default on these payments. It is your decision ultimately. But a bomb will go off; a bomb will go off in Dublin, not in Frankfurt."Leo Vara
THE Department of Finance last night insisted Ireland would not push for the European Central Bank (ECB) to take a hit on its massive Irish bond portfolio -- even if the bank agrees to accept a 'haircut' as part of the latest Greek rescue deal.The commen
Sale of wealth management arm of busted bank delayed by boardLONE Star, the Texas-based private equity giant run by billionaire Irish passport holder John Grayken, is understood to have made a move to buy €2.5bn-worth of loans from Anglo Irish Bank as pa
Finance Minister Michael Noonan yesterday defended his new tax breaks for high-paid executives from foreign companies coming to the country.Mr Noonan expected up to 100 executives with skills not available in Ireland to avail of the tax relief, which mak
FRESH revelations of payoffs worth up to €451,000 in State-rescued banks will heap intense pressure on Finance Minister Michael Noonan as he attempts to strike a deal on 2,500 job cuts in the sector.A manager at bailed-out Permanent TSB got the lucrative
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