A liquidator has been appointed by the High Court to two construction firms in the Sammon group after it was unable to resume work on several school building projects.

A liquidator has been appointed to Sammon Contracting Ireland Ltd today in a development which will put the completion of a number of school projects in doubt.

More jobs have been lost following the collapse of engineering giant Carillion, taking the total to over 2,300.

Directors at collapsed British engineering giant Carillion were too busy "stuffing their mouths with gold" to worry about the workers and should face the possibility of disqualification, according to a scathing report by British MPs.

The appointment of an examiner has been confirmed by the High Court to building contractors the Sammon Group which got into difficulty over the devastating collapse of UK construction giant Carillion.

More jobs have been lost following the collapse of engineering giant Carillion, taking the total to more than 1,800.

Construction giant Balfour Beatty has reported annual profits more than doubling despite a €49.6 million hit from the collapse of Carillion.

A significant number of Carillion's Network Rail (NR) contracts have been acquired by Amey Rail Limited, safeguarding around 700 jobs.

Investors in Carillion were "fleeing for the hills" after spotting that the construction giant was heading for disaster, it has been revealed.

A further 452 jobs are being lost as a result of the collapse of construction giant Carillion.

The collapse of the Carillion group will result in 377 staff being made redundant, the official receiver said.

Unions have attacked news that apprentices caught up in the collapse of construction giant Carillion will not be paid from later this week.

The UK’s accountancy watchdog is to open an investigation into accountancy giant KPMG over its audits of collapsed construction giant Carillion.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has conceded it will take “a couple of weeks” to resolve the fallout from the collapse of the Carillion construction company, and is causing a knock-on impact on six schools in Ireland.

The collapse of UK construction giant Carillion, a fingers-in-many-public-pies corporation that once recorded revenues of €5.9bn, means its 20,000 employees’ jobs are in question and sub-contractors’ payments are in jeopardy.

UK suppliers to Carillion are desperately trying to figure out the impact of its failure on a vast network of businesses that had contracts with the indebted construction services company, according to the head of an industry lobby.

It has emerged that a UK construction company that has gone bust, is involved in building five schools and a college here.

UK construction giant Carillion has said it has "no choice but to take steps to enter into compulsory liquidation with immediate effect" after talks failed to find another way to deal with the company’s debts.