Accumulated profits at the sports agency that had an acrimonious break-up with golf superstar Rory McIlroy have dipped by over €100,000.

A multimillion bid to safeguard the future of one of the country’s busiest ports is due to be lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

The cash pile at Horizon Sports more than doubled to €506,882 last year, as it prospered overseeing the career of superstar golfer Rory McIlroy.

On November 13, as darkness falls, thousands of people will run through Dublin, Belfast Cork, London and Manchester to raise money so that one day the paralysed might walk.

The acquisition of superstar golfer Rory McIlroy boosted Horizon Sports Management’s fortunes in 2011, with accumulated profits more than doubling to €275,217.

The Revenue Commissioners is concerned a scheme allegedly involving 26 wealthy individuals here was a tax avoidance scheme that could result in up to €110m tax losses to Revenue, according to documents before the Commercial Court.

The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society has named Seamus O’Donohoe as its new chief executive officer.

A senior army officer who coordinated security for UN agencies in war-torn Syria has assumed command of the Defence Force’s 1st Southern Brigade.

Governors of the European Central Bank are to hold an emergency meeting at 4pm today on the debt crisis in Europe and the United States.

HORSE RACING IRELAND is considering allowing punters use online betting and betting exchanges at racecourses to counter the rapidly falling attendance numbers at Irish race meetings.

WHEN the banking crisis erupted in September 2008 experts stressed the importance of coming to terms with the crisis as quickly as possible.

PERCHED on a chair overlooking a wood panel-lined room in Dublin’s High Court, a bespectacled Judge Elizabeth Dunne has become all-too-used to hearing from the victims of Ireland’s economic meltdown.

BORD BIA work programmes now include recommendations made last year by Professor David E Bell and Mary Shelman, of Harvard Business School.

AS the banking scandal shook the economy to its foundations, people who command respect in this country said it was imperative for us to determine the full extent of the losses buried in the major banks.

CHINA offers many business opportunities for Ireland’s economy. This is the key message of a business seminar being held in the Hilton Hotel, Charlemont Place, Dublin 2 on Thursday the February 18 at 8.30pm.

THOSE who fear the Government will sell the taxpayer short in the case of NAMA might take some comfort from the rumour that the banks hate the National Treasury Management Agency.

THE future of the minimum wage should be open to discussion given Ireland has the second-highest minimum wage in Europe, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin.

THE TUG-OF-LOVE that ensued between the rival agencies for Shane Lowry’s signature after his remarkable victory in the 3 Irish Open was always going to end in favour of Conor Ridge’s Dublin-based Horizon Sports Management.

Ulster Bank has today announced the appointment of Patrick Farrell as head of product marketing.

DEIRDRE RYAN is on course to win back to back UK and Irish high jump titles after winning the AAA championships in Manchester when she set a new national high jump record at 1.92m.

IRELAND could play host to a European equivalent of America’s heavyweight Harvard Business School if the Government invests wisely, a leading academic said yesterday.

MINISTER for Finance Charlie McCreevy will be giving extra money for social welfare benefits in next week’s Budget 2004, but it won’t be used to reverse 16 contentious cuts in welfare schemes.