Noonan knew nothing about Buckley intervention

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has admitted he had no idea that businessman Leslie Buckley, the current chairman of Independent News & Media, was involved in secret talks during the summer of 2012 to try and resolve a high-stakes dispute between former billionaire Sean Quinn and Anglo Irish Bank.

Only a few months earlier, Buckley had become a shareholder in utilities services company Siteserv after he, along with billionaire Denis O’Brien, acquired the ...