At the end of a tumultuous year for the Irish football, delegates will on Sunday face into a third emergency general meeting of the Football Association of Ireland in 2019.

Ireland manager Colin O’Brien is talking about the progress being made by Gavin Bazunu, the precocious goalkeeping talent who joined Manchester City from Shamrock Rovers earlier this year, when he offloads a timely reminder of the still tender years of all the players who are now busily gearing up to represent their country in the U17 European Championship finals which kick off in Dublin on Friday.

During the Fine Gael ard fheis on Saturday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he did not plan to call an election before Christmas.

Party leader Leo Vardakar keeps insisting (at least on RTÉ) there will be no early election. Trouble is, someone forgot to tell the troops at the ard fheis, writes Juno McEnroe.

While it remains to be seen if the departure of Paul Lambert encourages Stoke City to make a renewed approach to Martin O’Neill, John Delaney has said the FAI “fully expect” the manager and Roy Keane to see their current contracts through to completion.

The CityWest hotel in Dublin has been found to have unfairly dismissed a security guard who permitted a female guest to view a ‘sex tape’ of herself and a man on the hotel premises.

Two bonded warehouse companies have won High Court cases over excise demands for €2m and €1m respectively which arose after they said they were the innocent victims of fraud committed when consignments of alcohol did not arrive at their mainland Europe destinations.

Profits before tax at the country’s largest hotel, the Citywest in Dublin, last year declined sharply by 79% to €316,634.

LEADING Irish investment and hotel asset owners Tetrarch Capital plans two Cork city centre hotels in side-by-side 19th century stone warehouse building being sold by Cork City Council, who had acquired them from Nama.

The developers of Citywest say they are at a loss as to why South Dublin County Council has refused plans for a €50m housing development for Citywest Village.

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The owner of the country’s largest hotel, the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, has expressed confidence in it delivering double-digit percentage growth in profits and revenue this year.

The owners of the 3Arena, concert giants Live Nation is trying to block plans by Citywest Hotel to stage concerts at its convention centre.

Enda Kenny spoke for almost half an hour live on TV and radio without saying anything, according to Daniel McConnell.

More than 130 jobs are being announced this morning in Cork and Dublin.

A modern build, and done like a small hotel, the Brogan Inn in Bandon is for sale, ready to run, and full of potential.

"It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.

Operating profits at the country’s largest hotel, Citywest, are set to exceed 2013 levels.

In the 48 hours after Donegal beat Cork in the 2012 All-Ireland semi-final, county secretary Aodh Mairtín Ó Fearraigh’s phone stopped working. It had melted under pressure from incoming calls, texts and emails.

A receiver appointed over the Citywest hotel, conference centre, and golf course development in Dublin is suing a company for alleged failure to complete the purchase of the complex.

Developer Jim Mansfield, who made his fortune selling scrap metal from the Falklands War, was laid to rest yesterday in his home town of Saggart, Dublin, surrounded by his family and a wide circle of friends.

There's good news on the jobs front in Dublin.

50 new jobs have been announced for Dublin.

We’ll be there in Croker tomorrow, like Cork, back for the first time in a while, but you can hardly say he’s new to the place.

A former political lobbyist has admitted that he told “big lies about important matters” when he gave evidence to a tribunal 13 years ago.

The nature of drugs tests in top level GAA is under further scrutiny after a Kilkenny player was detained for around two hours after Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

Business software company SAP are to announce 250 jobs later today.

A MAJOR transformation programme at the company that runs Pigsback.com will result in growth at the firm going forward.

A MAJOR transformation programme at the company that runs Pigsback.com will result in growth at the firm going forward.

HOTELIER Jim Mansfield, who is suffering what the Commercial Court yesterday called an incurable neurological illness, is being pursued by Bank of Scotland (BoS) and NAMA for summary judgment orders totalling €280 million.

PRE-TAX profits at the main Irish unit of US software giant, Adobe last year dropped by 11% to $531.1m (€395.2m) in spite of revenues climbing to over $2 billion (€1.49bn).

ONE of the largest construction groups in the country, BAM Contractors returned to profit last year despite writing down its Irish property portfolio by €37.7 million.

BEFORE we get to what he’ll be saying at today’s FAI AGM, it’s worth starting with where they’re having that annual meeting because it’s something of a statement too.

THE Railway Procurement Agency has unveiled a pre-tax operating surplus on infrastructure activities of €1.1 million for 2010, boosted by an 8% annual increase in Luas numbers.

ONLY one of three major rail projects planned under Transport 21 is likely to go ahead during the term of the current Government due to a lack of funding.

THE Irish Franchise Awards attracted a larger than usual entry this year across its five main categories.

WILLIE ‘Big Bang’ Casey and Guillermo ‘El Chacal’ Rigondeaux will exchange pleasantries for the first time ahead of their March 19th showdown when they meet at the Lee Rooms in the Montenotte Hotel in Cork next Sunday at 2pm.

HOTELIER Jim Mansfield has denied walking away from creditors left owed millions after the collapse of his hotel, convention centre and golf course empire.

PHARMACEUTICAL giant Roche yesterday announced 25 redundancies at its Co Clare plant, as part of a global restructuring that will result in the loss of 4,800 jobs.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen will today officially launch a new initiative aimed at creating 300,000 new jobs over the next five years.