Full coverage: Denis O'Brien

The former Kilkenny hurler was jailed for five and a half years for scamming people out of money to pay for cancer treatment he did not need.

Tony Boyle built a global communications business, and spent three decades battling the State and Ireland’s richest men over the mobile phone licence — a fight he was determined to win until illness claimed him this week.

The businessman excoriated an "entitlement culture" which sees junior employees "dictating their work practices to their employers" and said that everyone needs to get back to the workplace immediately.

Persona’s legal action against the State is inching closer to a full hearing. The government that Michael Lowry helped form is defending the case, despite accepting the findings of the tribunal underpinning the case that Lowry rejects. Confused? You should be.

Time passes. The world moves on. Yet the report of the Moriarty tribunal should not be diminished by time. It still stands as the authoritative version of events, even if it is politically convenient to ignore it.

After a number of years selling assets in Ireland, Denis O'Brien has just bought a five-star hotel in Portugal. It is a strategic asset for the businessman, who has extensive properties nearby.

INM’s proposed takeover of Newstalk ruptured an already fractured relationship between the CEO and the chairman of the listed company, part-triggering a protected disclosure. This is the blow-by-blow account of how the deal turned sour.

After a six year investigation, the veteran journalist still has no credible explanation why a bullseye target had been pinned on his back by secretive data hunters.

Persona is seeking damages over the awarding of a lucrative mobile phone licence nearly 30 years ago. A New York fund with “a strong focus on litigation-related investments” has now taken an equity position in the company behind the action.

The Corporate Enforcement Authority, Leslie Buckley, Mediahuis and Denis O'Brien made statements on the findings of the report into Independent News and Media. Former INM executives Gavin O'Reilly and Karl Brophy described it as a "weird report".