A loyalist blogger accused of plotting to subvert a Stormont inquiry into a billion pound property deal intends to call nine witnesses at his legal bid to have the case thrown out, he told a court.

A LOYALIST activist accused of plotting to subvert a Stormont inquiry into a billion pound property deal is pressing ahead with a legal bid to have the case thrown out, he confirmed yesterday.

:: What is Nama and Project Eagle? Nama, or the National Asset Management Agency, is the Republic's state assets agency created in 2009 in the wake of the financial crash.

The PPS decisions come after a long investigation by the National Crime Agency into the 2014 sale to US investment fund Cerberus.

A loyalist activist is calling a DUP politician as a defence witnesses in his bid to halt a prosecution prompted by a complaint by another senior party figure.

FORMER Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay, party member Thomas O'Hara and loyalist Jamie Bryson are expected to appear in court today for the start of a criminal trial linked to a Stormont committee hearing.

A FILE with the names of eight fraud suspects linked to the sale of Nama's northern debt portfolio has been sent to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).

A DÁIL committee has agreed to hand back a dossier on the northern Nama deal sent to TDs by a Co Down property developer involved in the controversy.