The AIB Ireland Business Activity Report also shows that profitability expectations in Irish companies hit its lowest in over eight years as uncertainty remains around the circumstances of the UK leaving the European Union.

There is no greater challenge for business than uncertainty about the future.

A 28-man squad for the first AIB Club International of the season between Ireland and England Counties in Donnybrook on Friday, 23rd February has been named today.

PRESSURE is mounting on the three top figures in AIB to appear before a Dáil committee investigating the financial scandals that have gripped the country’s biggest bank.