AIB has been highly critical of Citibank's attempts to derail a $500m (€458m) lawsuit which was launched over a decade ago after rogue trader John Rusnak accumulated losses of $691m for Allfirst, a former AIB subsidiary.
The Irish bank claims that Citibank is relying on "illusory errors" to persuade the state of New York that it should reconsider its June decision which denied part of Citibank's motion for a summary judgment in the case.
AIB sued Citibank after Mr Rusnak's losses were discovered in 2002 - Citibank wants the court to dismiss AIB's claims against it.
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Plans to restrict car access to Dublin city centre are being opposed by retailers.
Dublin Town and Retail Ireland say the recently published transport study - which proposes to pedestrianise and ban cars from certain areas - lacks concrete detail.
This morning extended restrictions to traffic in the College Green area come into force to accommodate ongoing Luas works.
CEO of Arnotts Ray Hernan says the transport study - which proposes to close College Green to cars, vans and taxis altogether - assumes people will use public transport:
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Greece is reported to be days away from a new deal with its international creditors as negotiations continue.
Officials in Athens had previously said that a deal would be agreed by August 18th - sources now claim that this process could be quicker than expected, and that the terms of the country's third bailout could be agreed in the next 48 hours.
Prime minister Alexis Tsipras has warned dissenters in Syriza that he will push for early elections in the Autumn if they resist the austerity-heavy deal.
According to the reports in the German and Greek media, many of the hardline smaller eurozone country governments such as Finland and Latvia are supportive of concluding a deal before the August 20 deadline by which Greece must make a €3.5bn repayment to the ECB.
Germany is still understood to be seeking further concessions from the Greek government and is arguing that a further short-term loan to meet the ECB loan deadline would be preferable to rushing a wider deal
Greece has agreed to further cuts in defence spending and agricultural subsidies but differences remain with creditors over the details of a €50bn privatisation programme and the scale of the budget surplus Greece must generate over the next three years.
Any deal would have to secure agreement of eurozone Finance Ministers and various parliaments including Germany’s, prior to Thursday week’s deadline.
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HTC shares have fallen by 60 percent in the last year - pushing the company's market value below its cash on hand - meaning that investors believe that the electronics brandname, stock of merchandise, and factories are worthless.
The company has a market value of $1.5bn - down from a valuation of more than $30bn in 2011.
After being one of the main benefactors of Apple's misfiring iPhone 5, HTC gained significant marketshare in markets across Europe and the US.
Now as Apple's iPhone 6 dominates the top end of the market, and new competitors squeeze entry-level and mid-spec margins, HTC faces an uncertain future.
Third quarter sales look like they will be almost 50 percent below previous expectations. Revenues fell by 35 percent in the last quarter.
