The Government has done well in echoing the business view that the UK will remain our closest trading partner even after Brexit, says Frank O’Keeffe, EY managing partner.

A MANAGEMENT team at BMD, a subsidiary of Cork-based construction firm the Bowen Group, has bought the company from NAMA.

Twenty-four business leaders have been shortlisted for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award 2011.

BRIAN CONLON, the founder and chief executive of Newry firm First Derivatives plc, is the 13th Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

FIVE goals from Jonathan Herlihy and a hat-trick from Frank O’Keeffe secured UCC a place in the final four of this year’s Collingwood Cup.