The corporate headquarters of Allied Irish Banks ( AIB ) are also located in Ballsbridge.

The Irish Parliamentary Party, who supported the Allied cause in World War I in response to the passing of the Third Home Rule Bill in 1914 was discredited by the crisis.

On VE-day Haughey and other UCD students burnt the British Union Jack on College Green, outside Trinity College, Dublin, in response to a perceived disrespect afforded the Irish tricolour among the flags hung by the College in celebration of the Allied victory which ended World War II.

Within days of his becoming Taoiseach, Allied Irish Banks forgave Haughey £ 400, 000 of a £ 1, 000, 000 debt.

* Allied Irish Banks settled a million-pound overdraft with Haughey soon after he became Taoiseach in 1979 ; the tribunal found that the lenience shown by the bank in this case amounted to an indirect payment by the bank to Haughey.

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the Healy brothers supported the Allied and British war effort, two had a son enlist in one of the Irish divisions, Timothy's eldest son, Joe, fought with distinction at Gallipoli.

The scandal resulted Allied Irish Banks being forced to reach a settlement of € 90 million with the Revenue Commissioners in respect of Deposit Interest Retention Tax evasion in 2000 in addition to thousands of tax-evaders being prosecuted including the former Minister for Justice Pádraig Flynn.

Works are in many major collections, including the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin ; Bank of Ireland ; Allied Irish Banks ; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin ; Ulster Museum, Belfast ; Waterford Museum ; Office of Public Works, Dublin ; First National Bank of Chicago ; First National City Bank of New York ; An Chomhairle Ealaíon / The Irish Arts Council ; KLM Airlines Headquarters, New York ; Irish Management Institute, Dublin ; Jefferson Smurfit Group Ltd .; Norman B. Arnoff, New York ; University College, Dublin, and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Green was born in London ; his Scottish father ( Glasgow ) was a former British Army Major who made his fortune supplying tinned fish to the Allied forces in World War I, while his mother Violet was the Surrey-born daughter of an Irish gardener.

However, less than three weeks later on 31 March, the Central Bank of Ireland published the results of its " stress tests " on Ireland's four surviving banks ( Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland, EBS, and Irish Life & Permanent ) — indicating that the banks needed to raise an additional € 24 billion to remain solvent.

He is a director of Allied Irish Bank and receives annual pension payments of € 121, 108.

He is a brother of Lochlann Quinn, former Chairman of Allied Irish Banks, and a first cousin of Senator Feargal Quinn.

On 28 September 2008, the Irish government made the decision to introduce a bank guarantee to cover Anglo Irish Bank, Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland.

* Late 1940s-A majority shareholding in Allied Cinemas and Irish Cinemas Ltd was gained, becoming the largest exhibition circuit in Ireland ( a position maintained until the early 1980s )

Redmond, in the interest of ensuring the enactment of the Home Rule Act 1914 then on the statute books, encouraged the Volunteers to support the British and Allied war commitment and join Irish regiments of the British New Army divisions, an action unsuccessfully opposed by the founding members.

After neutral Belgium had been overrun by Germany, Redmond and his party leaders, in order to ensure Home Rule would be implemented after the war, called on the Irish Volunteers to support Britain ’ s war effort ( her commitment under the Triple Entente and the Allied cause ).

Both MacDermot and Dillon later left Fine Gael, and both argued for Irish entry into World War II in the Allied side, but MacDermot joined Fianna Fáil while Dillon returned to Fine Gael and became party leader 1959-1965.

The Bank assisted the Government in the administration of the Insurance Corporation of Ireland plc which failed in 1985 and threatened its parent Allied Irish Banks.

The CBOI knew that Allied Irish Banks were overcharging consumers in FX fees but failed to act for a number of years.

The whistleblower who gave them the information was requested to come to a meeting with the CBOI but was only invited to withdraw the allegations of wrongdoing and at the same time found himself removed from his position at Allied Irish Banks without any reason given.

" A secret internal investigation was held following repeated claims by a whistleblower that the stress test data was " doctored " and " dressed up " to ensure that Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks and Irish Life & Permanent passed, but the investigation found there was no reason for concern.

* Allied Irish Banks case study at ERisk. com

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** 12 February: The Irish government announces a € 7 billion rescue package for the bank and Allied Irish Banks plc.

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TSB Northern Ireland was disposed to Allied Irish Banks prior to merger in 1991 and, consequently, the bank does not have a presence in Northern Ireland.

TSB Northern Ireland had already been sold to Allied Irish Banks in 1991, becoming First Trust Bank.

The Northern Ireland business was sold to Allied Irish Banks in 1991 and now trades as First Trust Bank and the Channel Islands business was integrated into TSB Bank in 1992.

* Allied Irish Banks, or its British subsidiary:

In 2009, Allied Irish Banks along with its competitor Bank of Ireland accepted a 3. 5 billion euro bailout from the government of the Republic of Ireland as a part of the Bank Recapitalisation scheme.

Allied Irish Banks is usually referred to, both inside and outside the company, simply as AIB and often by its trade name of " Allied Irish Bank " ( singular ).

From 1970, these were replaced by " Allied Irish Banks ".

) Since then, the bank has preferred to be referred to as " AIB ", though " Allied Irish Banks plc " remains its legal name.

As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.

However, early battle reports of insignia on Allied units that the German armies encountered only confirmed the information the double agents had sent, increasing the Germans ' trust in their network.

In response, Allied Headquarters denied that Patton had received an official reprimand, but confirmed that Patton had slapped at least one soldier.

This decision was not based on the slapping incident alone, but also on confirmed intelligence that the Germans believed Patton would be leading the Allied assault into Nazi-held territory.

For comparison, the highest scoring Allied ace was Frenchman René Fonck, with 75 confirmed victories and further 52 unconfirmed behind enemy lines.

Its confirmed use by ground troops, however, was heard in numerous battles during the Pacific Campaign, when Japanese infantry units attacked Allied positions.

There were also problems with its penetrative power ; although the PIAT was theoretically able to penetrate approximately of armour, field experience during the Allied invasion of Sicily, which was substantiated by trials conducted during 1944, confirmed otherwise.

Following a private agreement at the Tehran Conference, confirmed at the 1945 Yalta Conference, the Allied leaders Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Stalin issued a statement affirming the use of the Curzon Line, with some five-to-eight kilometre variations, as the eastern border between Poland and the Soviet Union.

* July 18 – Six Eleventh Air Force B-24s make the first confirmed Allied strike against the Kurile Islands, damaging the Japanese base at Paramushiro and claiming a ship sunk without suffering any losses.

This is presented by Kutzner's chart, which shows Polish confirmed kills ( left column ), confirmed kills of all Allied squadrons, including Polish ( central column ) and real German losses on each day when No. 303 Squadron was involved in air combats ( right column ). In its first seven days of combat, the squadron claimed nearly 40 enemy aircraft.

In March he was confirmed as second in command of the Allied Army and rejoined the campaigning army, and assisted in the liberation of Spain by the British and Portuguese armies.

Three days later, an Allied intelligence agent behind the German lines confirmed the victory.