An iconic building firm of the Celtic Tiger years has gone into receivership, it was confirmed today.

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IF the one million plus people who rely on Dublin Fire Brigade to come to their help in their moment of crisis have their confidence in the service undermined by a report that has uncovered poor management and training, then we would be foolish not to wonder if similar problems exist in the country’s 36 other fire services.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has confirmed he has received a third report into the dealings of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.

THE business empire of one of the country’s leading property developers, Liam Carroll, moved one step closer to collapse after a liquidator was appointed to two of his companies.

PERSONAL loan guarantees by Tony O’Reilly and his brother-in-law Peter Goulandris could add a further €40 million to their mounting losses in the collapsed Waterford Wedgwood Group.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has announced Mr Brendan Foster as its president for 2008.

NEARLY 40% of business failures so far this year are in the construction and engineering industries.

IT is a cause of very serious concern that Ireland has the second highest rate of fire-related deaths out of 19 countries in the developed world, according to the World Fire Statistics Office.

THREE financial practices announced the merger of their businesses, creating an independent firm of business advisors and consultants.

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin has offered to facilitate a resolution to difficulties at Marino Institute of Education (MIE) despite a report from its trustees criticising her department.

THE consultants who cleared the Marino Institute of Education (MIE) of bullying and financial irregularities raised serious questions about financial procedures in their report to the Christian Brothers trustees.

ANOTHER resignation has been handed in at the troubled teacher training college at Marino Institute of Education (MIE) in Dublin.

A COLLEGE embroiled in controversy over alleged bullying and financial mismanagement has been given a clean bill of health by its own consultants.

HEALTH insurer BUPA has taken legal action to block Government plans to introduce a scheme which could lead to cheaper premiums for everyone with private health cover.

FAILURE by Tánaiste Mary Harney to introduce risk equalisation before the end of the year could have a catastrophic effect on the health insurance market, experts warned yesterday.

CALLS for a new national policy for women firefighters when they become pregnant were made at a conference yesterday.

IRISH Ferries is seeking 543 voluntary redundancies from its workforce or it will cease passenger ferry services across the Irish Sea.

BATT O’KEEFFE, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, has great hair. Not just good hair. Great hair.

CONSULTANTS PricewaterhouseCoopers were yesterday appointed to examine the use of Department of Education funding at the Marino Institute of Education.

BRIL (Business Reporting Ireland Limited), the company formed to promote the use of extensible Business Reporting Language in Ireland has recruited three new member organisations to its fold.

TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan is to push ahead and seek final Cabinet approval for plans to break-up Aer Rianta today, despite assurances to unions that he would consult with them fully beforehand.

THE Chief Fire Officers' Association has written to the Department of Environment warning that the country's fire service is incapable of dealing with a major terrorist attack.

COMPANIES owed tens of millions of euro by failed Italian food company Parmalat are fighting to decide if the Irish or Italian courts have jurisdiction in the case.

FIRE officers have again claimed that the lack of a national fire authority is putting lives at risk.

FORMER department secretary general John Loughrey insisted yesterday there was nothing sinister in the fact that civil servants took no notes of vital meetings with Esat Digifone executives just days before the consortium got the country’s second GSM licence.

A FEW days before Esat Digifone got the second mobile phone licence, Michael Lowry sought information on Dermot Desmond’s finances, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

Pearse Farrell of Farrell Grant Sparks, the court appointed examiner of DCP, presented his scheme of arrangement to Mr Justice Brian McCracken.

Mr Pierce Farrell of Farrell Grant Sparks was appointed Receiver at the instigation of Ulster Bank to whom IFS owe a substantial sum, believed to be in the region of £1m.

Mr Pierce Farrell of Farrell Grant Sparks was appointed Receiver at the instigation of Ulster Bank to whom IFS owe a substantial sum, believed to be in the region of £1m.