Media Bites

Sunday Independent

GAS Networks Ireland is planning a €75m investment to roll out filling stations for compressed natural gas vehicles.

The commercial semi-State body has been working on a station in Dublin Port.

It is due to become operational by the end of this year.

Sunday Times

AN external independent review of corporate governance issues at Independent News &Media (INM) is believed to have cleared chairman Leslie Buckley of any inappropriate behaviour.

The review was delivered to the board of INM in the past two to three weeks.

Sunday Business Post

THE top two executives at BlueBay Asset Management have spun out a new lending business and plan to raise a fund of up to €300m to launch early next year.

Former Anglo Irish Bank executive Pat Walsh, and Ross Morrow, who headed up the massive €450m BlueBay fund, will continue to provide services to the company, while working on their own venture, Dunport Capital Management.

Sunday Telegraph

BT’s mobile arm EE is preparing to go into battle with its rival operator Three over billions of pounds worth of airwaves, amid fears of delays to 5G network upgrade plans.

EE will tomorrow formally threaten the telecoms regulator Ofcom with a High Court challenge over the planned auction of radio spectrum.

The move is designed to head off another legal attack on the sale by Three, the smallest of Britain’s four main mobile networks.