FitzPatrick got €49,000 fees from docks body
DISGRACED banker Sean FitzPatrick is one of two former Anglo Irish Bank directors who pocketed more than €100,000 in fees from the troubled Dublin Docklands Development Authority.
Thursday, December 24 2009
DISGRACED banker Sean FitzPatrick is one of two former Anglo Irish Bank directors who pocketed more than €100,000 in fees from the troubled Dublin Docklands Development Authority.
It was the perfect ending to a perfect rugby year yesterday when Ireland, Lions and Munster star Donncha O'Callaghan wed long-term girlfriend Jenny Harte.
IT'S beginning to look a lot like a white Christmas for some parts of the country with more snow and below-freezing temperatures forecast right up until Christmas Day.
A CHRISTMAS card bearing an image of a Swastika may seem like a sick joke today, but for the sender in the early 1900s, it was innocently meant.
IT was a fairytale ending to a record-breaking year for Munster rugby star Donncha O'Callaghan.
Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher confirmed his return to Formula One with Mercedes and declared: "I never left the race track. I’m ready for some serious stuff."
RODDY COLLINS intends to stick around as manager of Cork City if the troubled Leesiders are demoted to the First Division.
A Ryanair passenger jet has slid off a runway after hitting a patch of ice at Prestwick airport.
Ten different drugs, including anti-depressants and painkillers, were found in pill bottles next to the bed of actress Brittany Murphy following her death, it is reported.
TESCO has failed in its High Court bid to stop rival supermarket chain Dunnes Stores advertising comparisons between in-store prices at outlets of the two superstore chains.
A total of 26,000 jobs were lost in companies supported by the development agency Enterprise Ireland this year, but this was partly offset by the creation of 7,000 new jobs.
SHAMROCK ROVERS manager Michael O'Neill is in the frame for the vacant position as manager of Dundee United after the departure of Craig Levein to become Scotland boss.
BREAST cancer is not a single disease but a collection of at least five separate conditions that differ in prognosis and response to treatment, a genetic study has revealed.
Firefighters performed a seasonal act of goodwill by coming to the aid of two reindeer caught up in travel chaos caused by the bad weather.
Angelina Jolie has said that fidelity is not essential for a relationship to work.
Aren't we all lucky girls in Ireland to have the wisdom of that wonderful middle-aged, male journalist, Kevin Myers, to put us right on our thinking by, "casting a cold, coherent eye over events in Listowel" (Irish Independent, December 22)?
TIS the day after Christmas, when all through the House, not a creature is stirring, not even to grouse. The corridors of Leinster House are deserted as politicians of every stripe are recovering from 2009 -- 12 months described by the Taoiseach this week as "the most difficult I faced in my political lifetime".
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