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Audit reveals litany of foster care failures
Sunday, March 07, 2010 By John Burke and Ian Kehoe

A review has been ordered into foster care in the south of the country after a damning audit found that children were routinely placed with people who had not been vetted.

IL&P paid more than €4m to former executives
Sunday, March 07, 2010 By David Clerkin
Irish Life& Permanent has paid more than €4 million to former chief executive Denis Casey and two other senior executives who resigned last year after details emerged about the institution’s controversial transactions with Anglo Irish Bank.

Regulator to impose strict capital rules on Irish banks
Sunday, March 07, 2010 By Cliff Taylor and Pat Leahy
The Financial Regulator is set to impose stringent new capital standards on the banks as they prepare to begin transferring property loans to the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).

NEWS FEATURES

The real business of politics

Sunday, March 07, 2010 By Pat Leahy, Political Editor
Voters are about to realise that talk of cabinet reshuffles is cheap, while the serious issue of saving our banks will be very expensive indeed

How Greek tragedy could cripple us
Sunday, March 07, 2010
If Greece needs to be bailed out by the EU, we will be hit with a bill of up to €400 million, worsening the state of our public finances, writes Pat Leahy

WORLD

Chile insurance claims set to hit $8bn
Sunday, March 07, 2010 By Donncha Mac Raghnaill in Santiago
The Chilean earthquake could cause the second largest flood of insurance claims the world has ever seen, experts are predicting.

Europe waits to see if Greece can enforce austerity measures
Sunday, March 07, 2010 By Anthee Carassava in Athens
When all else fails, cut, cut and cut again. Under pressure from investors and neighbours alike, Greece last week ordered an additional $6.5 billion in radical budget cuts, slashing 30 per cent off civil servants’ holiday bonuses and slapping fresh taxes on consumers.

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