This weekend, Nama is finally being shuttered, 17 years after it was incorporated. Its advocates point to its final financial surplus, while critics look at its role in the housing crisis. How should it be judged?
The reversal of Brendan McDonagh’s role as housing tsar lays bare the dysfunction at the heart of Ireland’s political response to its housing emergency.
The long-awaited report from the commission into the sale of Project Eagle is not a clean bill of health for Nama with criticism over how it managed the “success fee” controversy.
Nama and Ulster Bank were the biggest early sellers of non-performing loans to the US vulture fund, along with European banks. With the benefit of hindsight, how do those deals compare?
The O'Flynn companies wanted the court to show its disapproval at the defendants' conduct in raising unfounded claims of fraud and lying mid-trial. Instead, the court weighed up both sides' behaviour in the case.
Gerry Gannon is one of Ireland's most prolific housebuilders, building almost 15,000 homes in the greater Dublin area. Now his loans are being sold by Nama to a Kerry entrepreneur based in the US.
Derek Quinlan was Nama's biggest borrower, and he repaid it the most money in its history. The financier could not, however, repay his creditors everything and filed for bankruptcy in 2022. After a one year extension, he is now out.
Valued at over €70 million, Walls Construction Ltd is in the middle of a shareholder battle over diluting equity to reward the new management team. Can the sides reach a "sensible resolution" out of court?
The Belfast-born magnate has been refused additional discovery orders in his long-running lawsuit against the minister for finance and former secretary general John Moran relating to his IBRC loans and contacts with the Barclay brothers.
The controversy surrounding the sale of Nama loans secured on properties in Northern Ireland has focused on the discount given to their buyer. A forensic investigation reveals how much Cerberus made from the deal.
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