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Jobswatch

NAMA to invest €2 billion in unfinished developments, new construction sites

Yesterday, 8:19 AM 3,093 Views 50 Comments

Up to 25,000 construction jobs will be created, according to chairman Frank Daly.

# nama - Friday 18 May, 2012

NAMA

Noonan has no problem with IBRC chief executive’s texts to McKillen

Fri, 12:17 PM 1,931 Views 9 Comments

The finance minister says Mike Aynsley’s texts, revealing the position of the board of IBRC, was “appropriate and necessary”.

# nama - Sunday 13 May, 2012

9 At 9

The 9 at 9: Sunday

13/05/12 3,661 Views 21 Comments

Nine things you need to know this morning…

# nama - Friday 11 May, 2012

NAMAland

Nearly 700 NAMA units being provided suitable for social housing – minister

11/05/12 4,231 Views 22 Comments

Jan O’Sullivan says over 2,000 properties have been appraised for their suitability – and only half are fit for use as social housing.

# nama - Tuesday 8 May, 2012

Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Tuesday

08/05/12 5,998 Views 4 Comments

Your essential round-up of the day’s big stories – plus any bits and pieces you may have missed…

From Business ETC Mortgages

NAMA pilot mortgage programme to insulate buyers from negative equity

08/05/12 5,072 Views 39 Comments

NAMA’s pilot scheme will encourage first-time buyers to buy houses by protecting them from a 20pc fall in house prices.

# nama - Sunday 6 May, 2012

9 At 9

The 9 at 9: Sunday

06/05/12 6,258 Views 14 Comments

Nine things you need to know by 9am.

# nama - Friday 4 May, 2012

NAMA

Boost for NAMA as Chelsea announce bid to take over Battersea Power Station

04/05/12 5,915 Views 27 Comments

The power station is one-third held by NAMA – and Chelsea want to turn it into an iconic 60,000-seater stadium.

# nama - Tuesday 1 May, 2012

From Business ETC NAMA

Treasury Holdings commences legal proceedings against Nama

01/05/12 7,523 Views 49 Comments

Treasury Holdings is seeking damages of hundreds of millions of euro, and is also believed to be making a constitutional challenge to the Nama Act.

# nama - Friday 27 April, 2012

From Business ETC NAMAland

Irish Glass Bottle site now subject to possible NAMA sale

27/04/12 4,090 Views 20 Comments

While the plant – bought for €412 million at the height of the property boom – is not for sale yet, it might be soon…

# nama - Monday 16 April, 2012

Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Monday

16/04/12 5,813 Views No Comments

All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as the few bits and pieces you might not have seen.

From Business ETC Full Circle

‘No comment’ from Central Bank on report of €8m deal for Anglo HQ

16/04/12 3,199 Views 13 Comments

Bloomberg says the Central Bank has agreed to pay €8m to buy the half-built Anglo Irish Bank HQ at North Wall Quay.

# nama - Friday 30 March, 2012

NAMA

‘Very drab’: Artworks stripped from abandoned Anglo HQ

30/03/12 5,219 Views 24 Comments

Paintings pasted up in a guerrilla exhibition by the Romantic Ireland group have been removed from the derelict site.

# nama - Saturday 24 March, 2012

Read Me

Column: Here’s why we turn empty properties into art spaces

24/03/12 2,559 Views 4 Comments

“Raise the shutters on a vacant unit, and life returns to an area”: Arts initiative PrettyvacanT Dublin on bringing energy through art back to abandoned buildings.

# nama - Thursday 22 March, 2012

High Court

Treasury Holdings “willing to engage” with proposals to secure its future

22/03/12 1,966 Views 4 Comments

Treasury Holdings, owned by Richard Barrett and Johnny Ronan, was granted leave today to seek a judicial review against NAMA.

# nama - Tuesday 20 March, 2012

Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Tuesday

20/03/12 5,530 Views 8 Comments

All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed.

From Business ETC Property

Bill for property valuations ‘has saved billions for taxpayer’ – NAMA

20/03/12 4,385 Views 24 Comments

The state’s bad bank has spent millions having its properties valued, but says the payment reflect good value for money.

From Business ETC Hotels

McKillen accuses brothers of acting ‘unlawfully’ in London hotel takeover

20/03/12 1,580 Views 1 Comment

Reclusive developer Paddy McKillen accuses the Barclay brothers of acting illegally to win control of a luxury London hotel chain.

# nama - Monday 19 March, 2012

Action

Nama to Nature: Why we are planting trees on ghost estates Exclusive

19/03/12 14,546 Views 35 Comments

Group of friends urge fellow citizens to help Ireland’s 600 ghost estates return to nature rather than blight the landscape – Frank Armstrong describes one guerilla planting session in Co Leitrim.

# nama - Thursday 15 March, 2012

Prettyvacant This post contains images

Ghost estates brought to book in post-Tiger exhibition

15/03/12 3,959 Views 5 Comments

Art initiative PrettyvacanT Dublin is repurposing empty spaces for cultural purposes – its latest show responds to “post-Crash Ireland”.

# nama - Wednesday 14 March, 2012

Transparency

Chairman opposes making NAMA subject to Freedom of Information laws

14/03/12 1,746 Views 23 Comments

Frank Daly tells an Oireachtas committee that requiring full transparency would compromise NAMA’s commercial objectives.

# nama - Tuesday 13 March, 2012

Take 5

The 5 at 5: Tuesday

13/03/12 3,505 Views 6 Comments

5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

Social Housing

Minister rules out seizing NAMA properties for social housing

13/03/12 1,977 Views 17 Comments

Jan O’Sullivan says most NAMA properties are part of the security for loans, and can’t simply be seized by the State.

# nama - Sunday 11 March, 2012

Said And Done

Fewer foreigners and European trains: The week in quotes

11/03/12 4,836 Views 2 Comments

“Anyone out there hurting, looking at 50 TDs and Senators celebrating a year in government… it would have been a disaster.”

# nama - Saturday 10 March, 2012

FOI

Gardaí and banks should be more transparent – Ombudsman

10/03/12 2,352 Views 23 Comments

Emily O’Reilly said the gardaí, Nama and State-owned financial institutions should all be made subject to Freedom of Information laws.

# nama - Thursday 8 March, 2012

From Business ETC NAMA

Most NAMA debtors are co-operating with agency insists chairman

08/03/12 1,303 Views 10 Comments

Frank Daly was speak to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement today.

From Business ETC NAMA

Nama to roll out vendor finance to commercial buyers in Northern Ireland

08/03/12 451 Views 3 Comments

The agency also said it hoped to offer a pilot mortgage initiative to homeowners, and insisted it would avoid engaging in “firesales”.

# nama - Saturday 25 February, 2012

In Numbers

Prime numbers: The week in stats

25/02/12 2,782 Views No Comments

Debts, draw-downs, state assets and lunar rock – all of that, and more, in your weekly numerical wrap-up.

# nama - Thursday 23 February, 2012

From Business ETC NAMA Assets

48 NAMA debtors tried to transfer assets out of reach

23/02/12 4,317 Views 27 Comments

Department of Finance figures show that 48 of the 188 debtors under direct NAMA management had moved assets.

9 At 9

The 9 at 9: Thursday

23/02/12 4,338 Views 2 Comments

Nine things to know by 9am: Post-mortems due in Carlow, government to unveil back-to-work programme, and did your ancestors cause ‘malicious injury to a bicycle’?

# nama - Wednesday 22 February, 2012

Art

AIB to donate 39 major artworks to the State

22/02/12 2,256 Views 20 Comments

The bank will also make almost one thousand pieces of art available to be used for public exhibition.

# nama - Monday 20 February, 2012

From Business ETC Bank Of Ireland

Bank of Ireland reports 80 per cent drop in losses

20/02/12 2,006 Views 14 Comments

Preliminary results for 2011 show that losses before tax fell to €190m, compared to €950m in the previous twelve months.

From Business ETC Google

NAMA refutes claims that it put 230 Google jobs in danger

20/02/12 3,823 Views 8 Comments

The debt collectors have hit back at an article published on the front page of the Sunday Independent yesterday.

# nama - Friday 17 February, 2012

From Business ETC Debt Collection

NAMA architect fears agency’s pursuit of debts is “not sufficient”

17/02/12 2,206 Views 19 Comments

Peter Bacon, who is credited with coming up with the idea for NAMA, says the agency’s debt pursuits are too narrow-minded.

9 At 9

The 9 at 9: Friday

17/02/12 4,462 Views 1 Comment

Nine things you need to know by 9am: Enda Kenny’s American positivity, government’s defence on barracks closures, and Twitter promises to tighten up privacy.

# nama - Wednesday 15 February, 2012

From Business ETC NAMA

NAMA to recruit Chief Financial Officer as part of reorganisation

15/02/12 2,498 Views 18 Comments

The agency is setting up three new divisions as part of a reorganisation partly recommended by the former CEO of HSBC last year.

# nama - Monday 13 February, 2012

Domestic Violence

TD calls for NAMA to release housing to domestic abuse victims

13/02/12 3,267 Views 21 Comments

Mary Mitchell O’Connor said that NAMA has a social objective that goes beyond its commercial remit.

# nama - Friday 10 February, 2012

From Business ETC Google Store

Google plays down planning application for Dublin retail store

10/02/12 4,634 Views 5 Comments

Although Google has sought planning permission for a small retail store, it says it’s not planning to open one for the time being.

NAMA

Nama to claw back €500million in assets

10/02/12 1,599 Views 18 Comments

The agency expects to recover assets which debtors tried to put beyond its reach, its chairman Frank Daly has said.

# nama - Sunday 5 February, 2012

9 At 9

The 9 at 9: Sunday

05/02/12 6,037 Views 21 Comments

Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know before your morning coffee.

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Poll: Are you satisfied with your quality of life?

A NEW REPORT from the OECD has suggested people living in Ireland have some of the best lives in the world, with Ireland among the top countries in its Better Life Index.

The index finds that life expectancy, low pollution, positive experiences and a healthy work-life balance are among the factors that contribute to happy lives in Ireland.

It did note, however, that the gap between the rich and poor is wider in Ireland than elsewhere, while the gender gap in educational performance is also larger than average.

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Being proud to be Irish is sometime looked on as a social gaffe, writes Lisa McInerney, but that’s not always fair… and it’s not always the best way to figure out who really is racist…

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