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The plan is similar to the one used by the Government to sell part of its remaining bailout-era stake in Bank of Ireland.
The Taoiseach has suggested that the bank guarantee was an investment.
The club was recently relegated from League Two after being docked points for breaches of regulations relating to the non-payment of wages.
The economic effects of coronavirus can be mitigated “if we handle it well,” according to the Bank of England.
Denis O’Connor has stepped down from his post this evening.
The struggling League of Ireland club have received renewed support in recent days.
They’re taking their cases to the European Court of Human Rights.
Everybody’s worried about China.
The Plymouth County Correctional Facility has housed infamous murderers and terrorists, and now, the former CEO of Anglo.
The former taoiseach has given the BBC his verdict on the cause of Ireland’s financial meltdown.
The Finance Minister confirmed there were discussions about security at the height of the financial crisis.
One person says they’re “puzzled” the Taoiseach made the claim.
But it has been a good few years to be Dutch, Belgian or Danish.
We pursue it, discuss it, count it and obsess over it… but do we ever really think about what ‘money’ is?
One TD was paraphrasing Oscar Wilde at the banking inquiry today.
David McWilliams says he became a defacto advisor to Brian Lenihan before the 2008 bank guarantee.
This ESRI professor says regulators could still have stopped the financial catastrophe.
And the bad bank’s boss says if overseas owners want to pull apart Irish businesses there’s not much he can do.
Back in 2004, my wife and I were anticipating the arrival of our second son and I had just set up my own business. Then the financial meltdown hit.
Bruton wants the inquiry to focus on the reasons why the crisis wasn’t averted, not how it happened.
As the debt crisis deepened in 2010, it brought down Greece first, followed by Ireland and Portugal.
What do you think? Does it sound brilliant or crazy – or both?
Pat Whelan and Willie McAteer will now be assessed for suitability for community service.
Piraeus Bank SA requires more than €6 billion worth of capital.
The best-selling author and daughter of the former taoiseach has defended her father in an interview to be broadcast tomorrow.
Demand for the 10-year benchmark bond amounted to €14 billion.
They are John Bowe, former head of treasury at Anglo Irish Bank, Peter Fitzpatrick former finance director at Irish Life and Permanent and Denis Casey, former chief executive of ILP.
Former Anglo CEO David Drumm can be heard admitting he knew the lender was circulating the money between it and Irish Life & Permanent.
After just barely pulling back from the precipice, industry is picking up, home prices are gaining, banks are stable and American consumers have started spending – albeit still with great caution.
Artist and musician Hördur Torfason is the man who sparked the 2008 popular protests in Reykjavik. He’s been invited to Dublin to help plan a demonstration for this Wednesday, organised to ‘lock the Government out of the Dáil’.
A research team, which is being headed by Dr Stephen Kinsella, has been granted €650,000 to find out what we can learn from the global financial crisis.
The cuts should save an estimated €4.8 billion by 2015.
Professor Danny Dorling – once described as a “geographer royal” – says these images tell us more than we might have known.
A European court ruled today that Iceland was entitled to refuse to pay immediate deposit guarantees to savers when a major bank collapsed.
Some you may remember from school, but some are lesser known ones – like one perfected by an Irishman which allowed for development of modern passenger jets.
Ireland has been declared a ‘special case’ by Angela Merkel – and these figures show exactly why, writes Michael Taft.
“As austerity bites to the knuckle, soup kitchens spring up around the country and children are sent to school hungry. It just seems so terribly wrong.”
HURRAH! Break out the champagne and foie gras…
One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work, with 85,000 more people becoming unemployed between July and September.
While not originally on the agenda, there is speculation Spain may ask for a limited bailout in Brussels.