A closed Irish border is not acceptable for either trade or people, Chartered Accountants Ireland has said in its strongest statement yet on the implications of Brexit.

The average salary package for a Chartered Accountant in Leinster has risen by 9% in the last year to €109,756 according to new research published today.

It’s one thing knowing the outcome of the Brexit referendum. It’s quite another thing to act on it.

Political uncertainty in the run-up to the formation of the new minority Government dented confidence in the economy and caused a slowdown in the pace of economic growth, new research suggests.

Ireland contains most of the necessary ingredients to be capable of being a serious launchpad for innovative firms with a global reach, according to Google’s head in Ireland.

Accountants who act as whistleblowers in cases of corporate malfeasance or wrongdoing should be given specific protections as part of the Protected Disclosures Bill currently going through the Oireachtas, according to Chartered Accountants Ireland president Brendan Lenihan.

There was a 24% decrease in average income in the bottom 10% and a 6% increase in income in the top 10% of Irish society during 2009 and 2010, according to the governor of the Central Bank Patrick Honohan.

Ireland was one of just four EU countries with tax on low-incomes at under 30%, and was an example for others countries on how tax could be used to help create employment and fight against poverty.

Fallon & Byrne, the restaurateur and gourmet food supplies business that entered into examinership last year, was today granted a new drinks license by the Circuit Civil Court for its Exchequer Street, Dublin, restaurant.

The High Court has confirmed the appointment of an examiner to award-winning iconic food business Fallon & Byrne.

Award-winning iconic food business Fallon & Byrne, which runs a restaurant and gourmet food hall in Dublin’s Exchequer Street, is insolvent and unable to pay a €1.4m tax bill, the High Court heard today.

First Minister Peter Robinson has claimed he is confident a reduction in corporation tax in the North will not create cross-border tensions.

EARLIER this week the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland dismissed attacks on Ireland’s corporation tax rate as “ill-informed and unfair”.

FINANCE Minister Michael Noonan took the fight over corporation tax to France when he said its attempts to increase Ireland’s rate were perverse.

Aer Lingus CEO Christoph Mueller has said Ireland needs to get wage rates across the economy back to a competitive level.

JUST over one in 10 firms are planning pay cuts this year with a fifth believing a recovery will be evident before the end of the year.

CHRISTY Kearney’s article (May 10) on the role of audit in the banking crisis contains a number of significant omissions.

PROPOSALS for a harmonised corporation tax rate across Europe will be detrimental to Irish businesses, according to the country’s largest accountancy body.

The North’s economy will suffer into 2011 or beyond, a group of experts claimed today.

THE Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board has announced that Chris Gibson is to become chairman of the board from July 1.

THE loss of 48 jobs in a rural part of Kilkenny has been described as a devastating blow to the region.