Paul Cooke, newly installed as Executive Lead – effectively now the Association’s acting CEO – gave ample warning at October’s AGM that the figures “won’t be pretty and will shock people”.

Sport Ireland have approved payment of 2019 grant funding worth €195,000 to the Women’s National Football Team, with the disbursement of the money to be overseen, not by the FAI, but the accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.

Crash-out Brexit fears caught up with Irish manufacturers in August as output contracted at a pace not seen since spring 2013.

Workers have been occupying the historic yard, which built the Titanic, for almost a month in a bid to save their jobs.

All of Britain’s leading accounting firms have failed to hit quality targets set by their regulator for auditing company books, and they have done so for the second year in a row, with Grant Thornton and PwC singled out to join KPMG under tougher supervision.

European stock markets turned lower as healthy US jobs report tempered expectations that the Federal Reserve would be in as much as a hurry as once thought to cut interest rates.

Fishing gear including nets, lines, pots and ropes are accounting for 27% of all beach litter, but only 1.5% of it is effectively recycled.

A Cork tech firm is aiming to modernise the recruitment process for employers, writes Trish Dromey.

A €7.2 bn transaction between Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Life and Permanent had no commercial substance because Anglo's asset profile didn't change, a jury has heard.

Mallow Credit Union has applied to the Central Bank to have its area of operation extended to cover Charleville where the neighbouring town’s credit union closed last month.

Members of a Cork credit union that is currently in liquidation have been paid back nearly €40m of their deposits with the institution, which reopened its doors this week.

Members of a Cork credit union that is currently in liquidation have been paid back nearly €40m of their deposits with the institution, which reopened its doors this week.

The publisher of the Irish Times has said it made an operating profit of more than €1m last year thanks to a surge in digital revenues.

The building bust provided a bonanza for accountancy firms with new figures showing that Nama has paid receivers €115.39m over the past seven years.

Up to 80% of companies feel the Government is failing to help them sufficiently prepare for life after Ireland’s main trading partner Britain leaves the EU.

Britain will not be able to buy access to the single market following its exit from the EU, a former top UK official at the European Commission has warned, casting doubt on mooted British government plans for the UK’s future relationship with the bloc.

Businesses have frozen investment in the North following the Brexit vote, a survey suggests.

The Irish financial technology sector needs more regional venture capital firms and a greater number of investments of up to €2m to realise its full potential, a leading expert has claimed.

Construction firms are in danger of leaving themselves open to penalties by failing to fully grasp detailed new tax compliance rules, a leading advisory firm warned yesterday.

A plea for all sectors of the economy to unite in supporting farming through “a perfect storm” has been made by the managing director of a leading agri-business.

Wide-ranging tax rules designed to recoup much of the estimated €70bn multinationals underpay in the EU each year will not adversely affect Ireland’s attractiveness to foreign direct investment, according to state and private tax experts.

Michael Noonan’s battle to maintain Ireland’s attractiveness for multinationals and at the same time reduce the pressure from other EU countries saw him set the new knowledge development box (KDB) tax rate at 6.5% — just half the corporate tax rate — from January.

The property crash has resulted in a €55m bonanza for a number of accountancy firms overseeing Nama receiverships.

Private nursing homes in Cork and Kerry recorded the highest occupancy rate in the country last year, new figures show.

More jobs are being created outside the Dublin region as the economic recovery broadens and finally spells an ending to the two-tier economy, according to two surveys published today.

A new report from BDO says the economic recovery has begun to take hold in rural Ireland.

Close to 80 jobs are to be created in Cork and Limerick on the back of investments worth a combined €5.5m.

Employers’ hiring intentions are at a “sky-high” level in the UK and stronger than in the pre-recession boom but concerns remain about the UK’s failure to grow productivity, according to a new report.

A second multi-million euro Waterford sale — the AIB bank branch in the heart of the city for close to €2.25 million to a private investor - is imminent. It comes on the back of the just-concluded sale of the Fitzwilton Hotel, to an Austria-based investor, for €3.2m.

-‘Serious risk of corporate failure’

An insolvent concrete and quarrying company is to continue to receive High Court protection so it can come up with a survival plan, a judge has ruled.

Recovery in the Irish hotel and hospitality sector is to be analysed, parsed and predicted by Nine Wise Men, overseen by a male Fulbright scholar — with not a single woman speaker on the bill — at an Irish Hotels Federation seminar next week.

The first recipients of funding from the €75m BDO development fund are expected to draw down their cash in the near future.

A €75m support fund has been established to invest in mid-sized profitable export-orientated firms.

Billing itself as a top Waterford city four-star hotel, the modern-build Fitzwilton comes for sale with a €2 million price guide, just in time for the city’s 1100-year anniversary celebrations.

Up to 100 new nursing homes will be needed in the next seven years to cater for older people needing long-term residential care.

The Government is being warned of a looming crisis in the nursing home sector, with a new study predicting a shortfall of 8,000 beds within seven years.

More promising signs have emerged on the economic recovery after firms in England and Wales recorded a strong pick-up in activity during July.

Following the overturning of a receiver at Foley’s Bar, the holding company and owners are to sue a range of financial firms and individuals for trespass, negligence, and breach of contract.

The wedding plans of a bride and groom due to exchange vows today have been saved by a High Court judge.

More than half of accountants are willing to emigrate to find their first job, according to a study by recruitment consultants BDO.

The Portsmouth Supporters’ Trust expects other fan groups to follow its lead after it was given permission by a High Court judge yesterday to take control at Fratton Park.