Sport Ireland has said it supports Minister Shane Ross’ call for FAI President Donal Conway not to seek re-election to the board of the beleaguered football association.

Late filing penalty fees totalling €7.2m accounted for 37% of the Companies Registration Office's revenues of €19.27m last year.

Ex-FAI chief executive John Delaney is still on the soccer body’s payroll and could technically return to a senior role, despite the entire FAI board agreeing to step down by July.

The beleaguered Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has failed to keep proper accounts, according to its auditors, who have reported the allegation to the body responsible for company law enforcement.

No sports organisation has a monopoly on triumph or failure.

Auditors Deloitte have said the FAI has contravened two sections of the Companies Act 2014.

A man must pay €245,000 to buy out his brother in a dispute over the running of a former drilling company in Co Kerry they jointly owned, the High Court ruled.

The Government has denied it is developing secret plans for checkpoints along the border in the event of a hard Brexit.

Charities are snowed under with increasing reporting requirements and many risk bucking under the pressure, a conference has heard.

Government revenues from corporation tax, excise duties and Vat surged last month, but income tax revenues faltered as the amount of taxes collected from the self-employed unexpectedly fell short, according to the latest exchequer figures.

Plastic has become a huge problem for our oceans, taking many decades to break down, and entering the food chain with often deadly results for the birds, fish and other creatures that end up ingesting it, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Irish Athletic Boxing Association chief executive Fergal Carruth has described this week’s crunch talks at the National Stadium as “positive,” as the organisation forced a new rulebook over the line in order to meet a June 30 deadline set by Sport Ireland.

Irish Athletic Boxing Association officials were last night locked in talks at the National Stadium in an attempt to cease the organisation’s much-publicised civil war.

A member of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association’s divided Board of Directors has predicted that a dispute between the organisation’s two warring factions will end up in court.

Tesco has been accused of being ‘bullied’ into its decision to remove a group from its Community Fund charity initiative following complaints that the cause was ‘politically motivated’ and campaigns in support of the ban on abortion.

Gardaí are unable to act on international arrest warrants for an Irishman and two directors of Irish firms over the escalating Irish Olympics ticket touting scandal because Ireland has no extradition agreement with Brazil.

Income at the Companies Office has fallen as more companies avoided fines by filing on time.

Tipperary hurler Darren Gleeson faces an “indefinite” ban from working in a senior role in a financial services advisory firm, the Central Bank has disclosed.

The community group opposed to the building of an incinerator in Cork Harbour has claimed the application is invalid, due to a string of issues, including errors over the company name of the applicant, Indaver Ireland.

A controversial GP service, where patients pay a membership fee upfront, has been warned to file annual returns by the end of the month or face being dissolved.

RTÉ has defended itself against claims made by Senator David Norris, who has accused it of "squirting accusations" of wrongdoing into the public domain.

The Whitegate oil refinery, which its parent company has confirmed may yet be sold, is significantly loss-making, according to its most recent annual accounts.

The bulk of revenues generated by the Companies Registration Office (CRO) last year came from penalties imposed on companies filing late annual accounts.

Weekly freesheet The Cork News has announced last Friday’s publication was its final issue, and the paper is to close.

Graham Dwyer had resigned as a director of the highly respected architectural firm he worked for within days of being refused bail by the High Court in November 2013.

A plant hire company owned by colourful Kerry politician Michael Healy-Rae reported accumulated profits of over €345,000 last year, according to accounts filed to the Companies Registration Office (CRO).

The operator of Killarney’s popular INEC event centre and Gleneagle hotel is expected to record a pre-tax profit this year following a very positive year for the group.

Seán Quinn, the former billionaire and head of the Quinn Group conglomerate, is to make his comeback in Irish business this week as a paid adviser to a new manufacturing business headed by a number of his former executives.

Irish-headquartered telecommunications firm Imagine Communications posted a loss of almost €8.9m in 2013 — an increase on the previous year.

Michael Lowry’s refrigeration business experienced a cool increase of almost €230,000 in accumulated profits last year, according to accounts filed to the Companies Registration Office (CRO).

The official liquidator to the former operator of the Unicorn restaurant has told the High Court the firm’s directors are in contempt of court for failing to file outstanding accounts with the Companies Registration Office.

The Irish arm of record giant Universal Music enjoyed a tenfold increase in profits last year as the acquisition of part of fellow recording company EMI helped it to higher revenues.

The Irish arm of pharmaceutical giant, Roche had a reversal of fortunes last year as it returned to profit following a difficult 2012.

The publishers of the Irish Daily Mail and Irish Mail on Sunday have seen revenues decrease for the second successive year.

The University Concert Hall Limerick (UCH) last year doubled its borrowings from its parent company in the face of further losses at the venue.

Garth Brooks’s five-night stand at Croke Park could be brought to a halt by a High Court injunction within the next 48 hours.

The directors of a Dublin-based mineral exploration company have repeatedly failed to file annual returns over a three-year period and the firm is effectively insolvent, the High Court has heard.

The Declan Ganley-backed Switzerland-based asset management firm, St Columbanus International Advisors Ltd, has applied for voluntary strike off from the Companies Registration Office after three years of trading.

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.