Galway GAA chiefs are coming under pressure to grant a forensic investigation into the county board’s finances.

Galway GAA chairman Pat Kearney has said they will meet main sponsors Supermac’s in the coming days to deal with any queries about how their money has been spent but he said they have nothing to hide.

Paying men and women differently for the same work is illegal and Irish companies will have to work swiftly to prepare for new reporting regulations, Mazars has warned.

The junior defence minister has refused to say when Air Corps technicians were first trained to use respirators for working with toxic chemicals.

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.

A property developer has failed in an appeal in which he challenged the sale of his and his company's loans of around €25m to a fund.

A man whose investment property was taken over by a receiver admitted breaking down its door in an attempt to re-assert ownership, the High Court heard.

Fifa have written to the Football Association of Ireland seeking answers about their present troubles.

Latest: Sport Ireland is set to tell the Oireachtas sports committee that a full audit of the FAI is necessary before funding will be restored.

They came, they sat, they parked the bus.

The FAI has confirmed that former CEO John Delaney will appear before an Oireachtas Committee on Wednesday.

Outgoing Chief Executive of the English FA Martin Glenn was paid a salary of £699,000 (€819,000) in 2017, an increase of £109,000 (€127,000) from the previous year.

It was hardly a surprise that there were more questions than answers when John Treacy faced the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport yesterday, given that the Sport Ireland chief executive had to admit that the body was still in the dark about the reasons for a controversial €100,000 loan from the FAI’s former chief executive John Delaney to the FAI in 2017.

The FAI has announced that it has commissioned an independent review into recent issues of concern concerning the association.

The national children’s hospital board has been accused of hiding the findings of 11 more reviews and audits of the ballooning project’s financial controls and governance after refusing to immediately release the records.

Failure to address pensions was a significant oversight.

The former Apollo House site has gone up for sale.

Bank of Ireland says a couple transferred ownership of a property in Wicklow Street, Dublin, and their home in Milltown, Dublin, with intent to defraud creditors, including the bank which says it is owed €14.8m.

A dispute over a publican's alleged unlawful occupation of the Long Stone pub in Dublin's city centre could delay the planned sale and redevelopment of the Apollo House site, with a market value of €35m, the Commercial Court has been told.

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.

The Higher Education Authority has spent over €75,000 so far probing how the University of Limerick handled whistleblowers’ claims about irregular expense claims and ensuing industrial relations problems.

A decision on the modifications proposed to part of the Brewery Quarter events centre complex in Cork’s inner city is due within weeks.

Efforts are being made to remove the last remaining occupant from Apollo House in Dublin city centre, the High Court has heard.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group denied deliberately forcing the collapse of small business customers in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis after two news organisations published leaked internal documents.

The Bank of England wrong-footed investors by keeping interest rates on hold, but held out the prospect of a stimulus package soon to help the economy cope with Britain’s decision to leave the EU.

The Government and State agencies have paid consultants €152m for advice on the banking crisis.

The Irish High Court has jurisdiction to deal with a challenge by a group of Irish Investors, in a Radisson Blu Hotel in Southern France, against AIB bank’s threat to take over their shares.

The Central Bank has spent €119m on professional fees since 2011, including expenditure of €27.55m last year.

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

Accounting firm Mazars is to hire 50 new people at its Dublin and Galway offices.

The news that Green REIT Plc has acquired the former Sun Alliance building — at nos 13-17 Dawson Street, in Dublin 2, for €23m — bodes well for the city’s crane count.

A survival scheme for Elverys Sports operating company employing 700 people full and part-time in 52 stores across the country has been approved by the High Court.

More consolidation and the establishment of sector-specific cluster groups are needed in order to strengthen Ireland’s SME industries, according to a new report.

A host of firms are in line for lucrative work from Nama to help the agency evaluate and monitor its debtors.

Nama hired receivers to some companies controlled by Garrett Kelleher, a developer who planned to build North America’s tallest building in Chicago, according to sources.

The management team of Elverys Sports, led by chief executive Patrick Rowland, has emerged as the winning bid in the hotly-contested battle for control of the sports retail chain.

Employees of Irish retailer Elverys Sports ramped up the campaign to protect their jobs with highly visible displays at GAA matches in Dublin and Mayo over the weekend.

Siptu has warned strikes which will ground thousands of passengers at the country’s three main airports in the run-up to the St Patrick’s Bank Holiday will, as of now, still go ahead in spite of an intervention in the pensions dispute by the Government, IBEC and ICTU.

Several investors have expressed interest in the Elverys Sports operating company, which employs 654 people in 56 stores across the country.

An interim examiner has been appointed by the High Court to Elverys Sports, which employs 654 people in 56 stores nationwide.

A random audit of expenses of 12 members of the Oireachtas has led to €16,000 being handed back after it was found that some of the expenses claimed could not be properly accounted for.

The Government will today outline plans to separate Shannon Airport from the Dublin Airport Authority by December 31.

Former staff at Co-operative Poultry Products in Cavan have ended their sit in protest this evening.