Full coverage: IBRC

IBRC's liquidators started with tens of thousands of loans with a face value of €21bn secured on assets around the world. Now, years of legal wrangling, international property sales, and headline-making borrowers have led to the final sale – and the end of an era in Irish banking.

A High Court judgement has described the procedural history of the case which relates to an Irish Nationwide loan given in 1990 as “extraordinary as it is unacceptable.” An attempt to join KPMG to the case was also refused.

After 15 years of litigation, the Belfast businessman behind the Odyssey complex has failed in a court action for up to £100m in damages against his former lender, as a judge rejects all but a minor element of his case.

Asset-stripping and then war stopped the sale of one of Ukraine's best known shopping centres Univermag Ukrainia by liquidators acting for the Irish state. Now a deal is finally almost done.

A decade after the dramatic liquidation of IBRC, the returns continue to flow — not just in billions to the Exchequer, but in hard-won economic sovereignty.

Gerry Maguire built the Laurence Town Centre in Drogheda at a cost of €120m, supporting hundreds of jobs. A religious man who passed away in recent days, he was one of a group of developers assembled to try to save Anglo Irish Bank.

The Slieve Russell Hotel was a physical manifestation of Sean Quinn's own grandiose ambition and of his unfettered loyalty to his locality. It sale marks the end of an era.

After taking years to investigate the sale of the company to Denis O'Brien by the former Anglo Irish Bank, one of the IBRC Commission's main recommendations regarding "impropriety" in the transaction has come to nothing.

The government will now shutter the IBRC Commission rather than make it trawl through 37 other deals. It raises a question of why Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan made the curious and unexplained decision to extend its remit beyond Siteserv in the first place.

Despite a bitter dispute with his former employer Anglo Irish Bank, Tom Browne sought to move on with his life, co-founding the corporate finance firm LeBruin and investing as far as China and the Caribbean. Now IBRC has re-ignited legal action.