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TRANSFER: March deadline was set by Brian Lenihan

Nama to miss March deadline for transfer of toxic assets

THE State's bad bank Nama is set to miss an end of March deadline amid wrangling over valuations with several of the country's banks, the Sunday Independent has learned.

29 property suicides leave State unmoved

By JEROME REILLY

Twenty-nine deaths by suicide can be directly linked to the turmoil in the construction and property sector but dozens more deaths among small investors, homeowners and construction industry workers linked to financial despair have gone unreported.

Star Shine is 'not ashamed' of his drink-driving charge

By ANDREA BYRNE

Well-known Irish singer Brendan Shine has admitted that his drink-driving charge, which led him to be banned for driving for over a year in England, was a "mistake" but that he would "never feel guilty over a thing like that".

O'Brien's case is lost in his fury

SURREAL may be stretching a point, but Denis O'Brien's hastily organised press conference on Friday afternoon in the Merrion Hotel edged into the realm of a different reality. O'Brien is a man obsessed, angry with the world and convinced of the conspiracy that is ranged against him.

The Government has completely lost the plot on jobs, says Burton

There will be no economic recovery in Ireland without a massive, targeted programme of job retention, job creation and work-based job training, Labour finance spokesperson Joan Burton told an economic forum in Cork yesterday.

Letter is 'a study in the art of lying'

By LIAM COLLINS

The Pope's letter is "a study in the art of lying" said singer Sinead O'Connor last night, in response to the Pope's letter.

Sorry is hardest word in Seanie's shed

I'M standing in Sean FitzPatrick's garden shed. It's not your average shed. For a start, it has a burglar alarm on the outside. On the inside, meanwhile, there are few of the gardening tools or the bags of compost one would normally expect to find.

Regional hospitals quicker for scans

By Rory Coen

Patients can have their diagnostic scans in a matter of hours at some regional hospitals instead of joining the long wait for the same scan in the country's major hospitals.

Report on DDDA sent to ex-board members

By RONALD QUINLAN

ALL former board members and executives at the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) have received copies of the heavily-anticipated report into the organisation's corporate governance for their response prior to its publication, which is now expected within weeks.

Sixty-nine bankers' pay is capped at €500,000

By JOHN DRENNAN

Sixty-nine high-rolling bankers have had their salaries capped at €500,000 by Brian Lenihan's Covered Institutions Remuneration Oversight Committee (Ciroc).