In the first of a four-part series looking at the finalists for the Cork Company of the Year Awards, Munster Business Hub editor Alan Healy casts an eye over the contenders in the Emerging category.

Tipperary County Board posted a deficit of €371,596 for 2019 after its accounts were published at annual Convention in Thurles last night.

The body with responsibility for greyhound racing has not paid a dividend to the State for 25 years, despite its status as a commercial semi-state company.

No serious issues relating to greyhound welfare have been reported by the public since a hotline was set up following a documentary criticising the industry

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Olympic silver medal rowing champions Paul and Gary O’Donovan will be a big draw at the FBD Insurance stand all day Wednesday.

Half of all Irish Greyhound Board sponsorship funds will now be ringfenced for a ‘care fund’ established for the wellbeing of greyhounds.

The Irish Greyhound Board has ended its relationships with the Rose Of Tralee Festival after alleged threats against competitors.

The Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) has launched a confidential phone line which will take calls from members of the public who have concerns for the welfare of greyhounds.

Connolly's Red Mills is the latest company to cease its sponsorship of greyhound racing.

It follows yesterday's announcement by Barry's Tea that they will no longer sponsor an annual race in Curraheen Park in Cork.

Barry’s Tea has formally withdrawn its local sponsorship of an annual greyhound race in the wake of last week’s RTÉ Investigates documentary on the sport in Ireland.

The Restaurant Association of Ireland’s FBD Insurance-sponsored Food Destinations 2019 competition is now accepting applications from any suburb, village, town or region that believes it has a unique food tourism offering and wants to shout it out to the world.

The 30% growth in dairy cow numbers has created opportunities and challenges, say the hosts of the Teagasc Moorepark 2019 Open Day, taking place on Wednesday, July 3.

Cork will host a major conference on cybersecurity in September with the burgeoning cybercrime industry’s exponential growth expected to exceed €4.5 trillion in two years.

Farmers must consider retiring earlier to extend the sector’s life expectancy, said Dr Sharon McGuinness, CEO, Health Service Authority.

FBD Insurance has accused the legal profession of being solely responsible for exorbitant premiums for businesses as it defended its 41% rise in profits last year.

GRASS is regarded as the key to profitable and sustainable milk and meat production in Ireland, where there is an ongoing campaign to grow more of it.

Insurance companies have been accused of making hundreds of millions of euro while putting small businesses at risk of closure.

Attendance estimated at over 4,500 at Millstreet showcase of Ireland’s pedigree dairy breeding and trade exhibition

Ireland’s newly crowned world lightweight double sculls champions Gary and Paul O’Donovan have scotched rumours that they won their recent gold using inferior equipment due to funding problems.

A Cork company director who hiked his insurance coverage before setting his own premises on fire and then trying to claim €200,000 insurance received a 10-year suspended jail term yesterday.

A 47-year-old man, who denied arson causing €200,000 to his own business but was found guilty by a jury, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of making a fraudulent insurance claim afterwards.

A 47-year-old man from Passage West accused of arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building and making an insurance claim by deception denied both charges and went on trial by judge and jury yesterday.

Bloom medal winners yesterday basked in glory before the rain came down.

A Dublin man who made a bogus insurance claim by staging a crash with his wife and pretending they didn’t know each other has been jailed for a year.

Industry leaders took time to honour an agrifood legend with the launch of the €4.5m Paddy O’Keeffe Innovation Centre at the Teagasc campus in Moorepark, Fermoy, Co Cork.

A Toyota Land Cruiser suspected of being involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash almost three years ago, was registered in the name of a 22-year-old accused and he also had an insurance policy on the vehicle, a court heard yesterday.

Fines totalling in excess of €5m were dished out by the Central Bank to financial services firms last year.

An insurance company has been fined nearly half a million euro by regulators over consumer protection failures.

Homeowners have been urged to check their policies and advise their insurers if they intend leaving their homes unoccupied for more than 45 days.

Connacht secretary John Prenty believes the Football Review Committee’s proposals have to be heeded if cynicism is to be curbed in Gaelic football.

Cork IFA members are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the county’s decision to create the divisions of west, north, and central.

The IHFA Open Day takes place on Wednesday June 20 on the farm of Tom and Maura Murphy at Swiftsheath, Jenkinstown, Co. Kilkenny.

BT Ireland has reported its first annual revenue increase for five years, with profit growth also resuming after a period of consolidation.

Irish consumption of soft fruit has almost trebled during the last decade, with €35m-worth of strawberries annually topping the league.