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Bank of Ireland's €1.4bn shipping loan and maritime business is now being targeted by potential buyers.
The Irish Independent reports that Spanish banking group Santander is interested in "cherry-picking" prime assets from Ireland's faltering financial institutions.
Santander has already paid almost €3 billion for AIB's Polish interest Banco Zachnodi, and now senior bankers believe it may be interested in buying parts of AIB and other Irish bank assets - including BoI's lucrative maritime loans business.
Credit Agricole and Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) have also shown keenness in Irish assets, though it is thought their interest has cooled due to poor prospect for Ireland's economy.
The Irish Independent has more on the story HERE.

Bank of Ireland's €1.4 billion shipping loan and maritime business is now being targeted by potential buyers. 

The Sunday Independent reports that Spanish banking group Santander is interested in "cherry-picking" prime assets from Ireland's faltering financial institutions.

Santander has already paid almost €3 billion for AIB's Polish interest Banco Zachnodi, and now senior bankers believe it may be interested in buying parts of AIB and other Irish bank assets - including BoI's lucrative maritime loans business.

Credit Agricole and Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) have also shown keenness in Irish assets, though it is thought their interest has cooled due to poor prospect for Ireland's economy.

The Sunday Independent has more on the story HERE.

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Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.