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With a healthy majority thanks to Independents, the Coalition should have time to get a grip on the issues of most concern to voters
Brendan McDonagh
Nama’s State contribution reaches €5.6bn as wind-down almost complete
So-called bad bank is on track to be dissolved in 2026 with its remaining assets being moved to a new NTMA unit
Bankrupt developer Seán Dunne seeking damages over Nama takeover of assets
Dunne claims 2009 appointments of Nama chiefs Brendan McDonagh and Frank Daly were invalid
Pimco pulled out of Nama Northern Ireland deal over Cushnahan concerns, court hears
Belfast court told Pimco raised concerns about possible success fee going to Frank Cushnahan
Nama chief makes good on Lenihan order not to ‘mess it up’
Agency on track to deliver a lifetime surplus of €5.05 billion by the time it is wound down
Nama to be down to as low as €10m in loans tied to windup, says CEO
Previous agency target was €4.8bn
Department objected to Government’s ‘housing tsar’ amid concerns over pay and recruitment
McDonagh withdrew from consideration after possibility he might retain €430,000 salary
Zlatan wins the aerial battle but Michael D Higgins still comes home with another striking prize
Plus: Bloomsday hits Tehran (despite Ulysses ban); a great gig for tunnelling experts; and Norman naysayer Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Fifteen years, €24.3m and 1,384 pages later, was the Irish Nationwide inquiry really worth it?
Long running inquiry announced findings this week
Leo Varadkar has more to offer than reality TV shows or doling out PR advice to mega-rich clients
Mary Robinson and Jimmy Carter are exceptions. The political system cultivates the ideology that money is the measure of the man
Nama’s Brendan McDonagh says he could have added ‘value’ to new housing delivery agency
Brendan McDonagh to discuss wind-down of agency before the TDs and senators
Dragons denied: Niall O’Farrell becomes the latest TV entrepreneur to face money woes
Plus: former Mary Lavin home back on market; John Collison’s castle life; and Declan Ganley’s conservative Roman party
Fianna Fáil says salary for head of Housing Activation Office will not be ‘anywhere near’ €430,000
Party TD Seamus McGrath does not accept the appointment has been ‘botched’
Message from the Editor: a morass of Government’s own making on housing
Unseemly bickering between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael suggests absence of sense of purpose that might at least ameliorate crisis over course of Coalition’s term
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