All of Britain’s leading accounting firms have failed to hit quality targets set by their regulator for auditing company books, and they have done so for the second year in a row, with Grant Thornton and PwC singled out to join KPMG under tougher supervision.

Britain’s accounting watchdog has fined Deloitte and one of its partners a total of £4.62m (€5.15m) for misconduct related to the audit of financial statements of Serco Geografix for 2011 and 2012.

Tomorrow, Central Council will choose which form of the old Tommy Murphy Cup they back as a motion to Special Congress later this year on a revamped football championship.

Club Players’ Association (CPA) chairman, Micheál Briody — one of the chief stakeholders in the recently-established Fixtures Review Committee (FRC) — has insisted there will be no sacred cows left untouched in their quest to find solutions for the vast majority of footballers and hurlers who have their fixtures postponed indefinitely by the inter-county season.

Accounting giant KPMG has been fined and reprimanded by UK regulators over a defective audit of Britain’s Co-op Bank and its audits of lenders will face additional checks for three years.

Before our time, we’re reliably informed there were GAA journalists considered dedicated followers of fashion.

Longford man McGee guided the Faithful County to their famous 1982 All-Ireland final win, denying Kerry the five-in-a-row, as well as three consecutive Leinster titles and two All-Ireland Club SFC crowns with UCD.

Two of the Big Four accounting firms said they will stop offering consulting services to audit customers in an effort to restore public trust in a sector shaken by corporate scandals.

The world’s ‘big four’ accounting firms will face potential fines of £10m (€11.5m) or more, in the UK, for serious rule breaches from June.

Unions in England have attacked news that apprentices caught up in the collapse of construction giant Carillion will not be paid from later this week.

Britain’s accounting regulator has said it would investigate audits by PwC of BT Group after a scandal was uncovered this year at the Italian operations of the telecoms group.

“My memory is not the best,” laughs Pearse O’Neill. He’s just been asked to jog it back to the spring of 2010 when the mark last featured in inter-county Gaelic football.

Britain’s Serious Fraud Office has said it has charged three former senior Tesco executives with fraud in its investigation into accounting practices at the UK’s biggest supermarket retailer.

Former International Rules manager Paul Earley says the introduction of the mark from a kickout can curb the number of hand-passes and resurrect the high-fielding midfielder.

The accounting watchdog in Britain kicked off a public consultation yesterday to apply a sweeping EU reform of company accounting from next June.

Britain’s Financial Reporting Council is investigating former employees of RSA Insurance Group’s Irish unit regarding accounting irregularities dating back to 2012.

Tesco’s book-keeping scandal has prompted Britain’s accounting policeman to turn a spotlight on annual reports in the retail sector to check for similar irregularities.

Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, has named Deloitte as its new auditor, ending its 32-year relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) after an accounting scandal.

Eugene McGee has claimed that the timing of matches brings Gaelic games into disrepute and slammed Central Council’s proposal to abandon the clock/hooter system at Congress tomorrow.

What are the chances of success of the various proposals? Irish Examiner writers consider the options.

Britain’s accounting watchdog has launched an inquiry into the preparation, approval, and audit of Tesco’s accounts over the last four years, including the role of external auditor PwC.

The accounting watchdog has launched an investigation into a £263m overstatement of profit expectations at Tesco.

Jim Gavin has called for the National Football League to be scrapped as part of his vision for a new inter-county calendar.

Decades of fixture-making have taught Paul Kinsella many things but one abiding lesson: the longer a club is in a championship the better it is for the club’s prosperity.

County board chiefs have slammed Central Council’s decision to back the proposal to finish the club championships in a calendar year.

"A good day for clubs" is how Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman Eugene McGee described Saturday’s Central Council meeting.

Managerial legend and former Tommy Murphy Cup winning boss Mick O’Dwyer has called for the competition to be revived for weaker teams.

The much-maligned International Rules series appears to have been given another reprieve after Croke Park decided to remove it from the agenda of Saturday’s specially-convened Central Council meeting.

It’s been a bad week for defending champions and Jim Gavin has taken note.

The Clare County Board have opted to go ahead with the majority of this weekend’s second round club championship fixtures — despite receiving an appeal for a postponement by Davy Fitzgerald and his management team.

Dublin have won eight of the last nine Leinster SFC titles and are an unbackable 1/7 to make that nine out of 10, but Jim Gavin believes existing provincial structures should not be dismantled in a bid to improve Gaelic football.

Half-time was important for Cork. I’d say a few harsh words were spoken.

Tipperary chairman Sean Nugent believes the Football Review Committee’s proposal to have all county semi-finals completed by early August does not give enough consideration to dual counties.

Inter-county footballers have given the thumbs-up to the majority of the Football Review Committee’s second report to be voted on at Central Council today.

The death-knell for the much-maligned International Rules could toll on Saturday as the majority of counties are set to vote against its continuation.

GAA president Liam O’Neill is hopeful that steps to resolve the threatened boycott by some counties of the Munster football championship next year might be taken at next week’s Central Council meeting.

If you can, try to put your championship expectations aside for one second and consider it’s Central Council time again on Saturday week.

Cork have given short shrift to all but one of the Football Review Committee’s competition structure proposals.

Liam Sheedy wants to see more Dublins in hurling as he embarks on his chairmanship of the games’ new review committee.

Kerry club delegates want to abandon the International Rules Series and the Railway Cup.

Cork chairman Bob Ryan has expressed relief the “Anthony Nash motion” has been postponed for this year.

Senior Central Bank executives have held private meetings with some of the top accountancy firms in the State to demand an improvement in auditing standards of financial institutions, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Every year we keep hearing that the national league is the second-most important competition in Gaelic football, but it’s actually not true.