Already new GAA president Liam O’Neill is in exalted company. Not only does he stride in the footsteps of luminaries such as Maurice Davin, Con Murphy and Seán Kelly. But men like Matt Barrett, Gerald Ratner and David Shepherd can also now call him one of their own.

A lack of women on the boards of City firms may have made challenging executive decisions “less effective” in the run up to the UK financial crisis, a report by British MPs said today.

The banking whistleblower whose revelations forced the resignation of a senior Government adviser today called for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to go for his part in creating the financial crisis.

Private equity chiefs in the UK will face fresh scrutiny by the British parliament today amid reports they are making large gains from firms which pay almost no corporation tax.

Bank of England governor Mervyn King today said the threat of higher inflation around the world was creating uncertainty for the global economy.