New head of sales for Capital Home Loans and Irish Permanent

Mr Healy, who has been Senior Manager of Irish Permanent in the UK for the past 10 years, will head-up the sales teams of Capital Home Loans and Irish Permanent. Both companies are part of Irish Life & Permanent.

He will continue to be based at IP’s Hammersmith, London head office.

Mr Healy said: “We have made an extremely good start tothe yearso I am looking forward to the rest of 2004 - especially given the strength of our product range. Our 90% self-certification product and our buy-to-let range will continue to prove to be very attractive to brokers.”