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Former AIB chief financial officer held similar role in Novo Banco for past three years

Former AIB chief financial officer held similar role in Novo Banco for past three years

Cantillon: Francesca McDonagh joins Credit Suisse as bankers look to change pay rules

By TOM GANNON YOU would have been hard-pressed to find a parking spot in Yinnar recently after 25 Need For Feed trucks loaded with fodder arrived in town. Volunteer drivers made their way from Nar Nar Goon with more than 600 bales of hay to assist the region’s farmers heavily impacted by last month’s wild storm. The cavalcade made a pit stop in Yinnar around noon before delivering fodder to 20 commercial farms and 15 lifestyle properties in the Yinnar and Heyfield districts. Loaded up: A ca...

Why does it take so long to build anything in Ireland? Cliff Taylor: Row over cheese plant hints at environmental battles to come Sat, May 15, 2021, 01:10   It seems to take forever to get anything built in Ireland. Some of this is due to the planning process – and some is due to policy ambiguity. Two recent court decisions underline this, both providing key pointers to policy. One is about a cheese factory. The other a housing development in Dublin’s northern suburbs. The row over the pr...

Oscar Traynor not only took part in the Easter Rising, joining the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War but also claimed soccer was not a foreign sport, “a Celtic game, pure and simple, having its roots in the Highlands of Scotland”. One hundred years on, even wilder claims are being made and with the same spirit of principle over pragmatism. The decision by Dublin city councillors in November to delay the Oscar Traynor Road development epitomises the muddled ideological battle lines and blood...

Dublin City Council could be waiting up to 6 years before it can start building housing units on it's own sites.