A cancer drug innovator from Waterford has been named as Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur (IBYE) for 2019.

STATE training agency Fás breached financial procedures, wrongly funded first-class flights for senior executives and spent tens of millions of euro in questionable ways, according to a damning new report.

A new report has found the State training agency FÁS breached financial and foreign travel procedures, at a huge cost to the taxpayer.

SUSPENDED Fás executive Greg Craig is expected to be invited to appear before the Dáil public accounts committee (PAC) later this month after claiming he operated outside normal procurement practices with the approval of his superiors.