The Quakers will hold their annual assembly in Cork for the first time in 360 years this week.

Lending to households and businesses continued to decline over July, although there are signs that the deposit books at the Irish banks have stabilised, according to the latest data from the Irish Central Bank.

The need for another EU referendum is likely to be the “main takeaway” from this week’s crisis meeting of leaders in Brussels, Goodbody Stockbrokers has predicted.

Agri-food group Origin Enterprises has reported net profit of €6.4m for its accounting first-half year to Jan 31, a reduced profit level on this period last year, explained by the seasonality of new acquisitions UAP and Masstock.

IT is not too late to avert a full-scale pensions crisis, Goodbody Stockbrokers has said, but any recovery depends on swift action by the Government in the coming months.

THE total cost to the taxpayer of bailing out the banks could be a massive €33 billion, a leading economist has warned.

A sick and hospitalised Liam Carroll and the fellow directors of the Zoe group were granted leave of the High Court tonight to present a new petition seeking the appointment of an examiner to the troubled property group.

IRELAND will spend €5.2 billion – 16% of all tax collected – on servicing a record national debt of €116 billion in 2010, as the country pays interest rates of almost 6% to fund Government spending.

Tim Goodbody took 15th in Race 8 in the Finn class to place 21st overall in the 2008 Olympics sailing regatta today.

This morning's races involving Irish sailors Ciara Peelo and Tim Goodbody have been postponed due to a lack of wind.

In the doubled handed men’s 470 class Ireland’s Gerald Owens and Phil Lawton lies 9th overall after scoring a 22nd in Race 1 and 1st in Race 3 in their first day of competition.

WHILE Britain’s dominant Olympic sailors marched to lead two of the three classes which have started racing on Fushan Bay off Qingdao, Ireland’s Finn sailor Tim Goodbody lies in 18th place overall after four races.

In Sailing, Ireland's Tim Goodbody lies 18th overall after scoring a 15th in Race 3 and 15th in Race 4 at the Beijing Olympics.

WHEN Dermot Desmond bought the near-bankrupt London City Airport from the building firm John Mowlem he probably didn’t believe that 11 years later it would net him a profit of a cool €1 billion.

INFLATION hit a two-year high last month as higher oil prices and heftier mortgage burdens began to bite, new figures show.

AT the heart of the insider dealing action taken by Fyffes against DCC lies less than a dozen pages of financial information.

SHARE trading on the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) soared by 22% to €26.8 billion in the first four months of the year, generating commission of more than €33.5m for stockbrokers.

BUILDING supplies company Grafton’s better that expected 32% surge in pre-tax profits is forcing stockbroking analysts to increase full-year forecasts for the company by anything up to 10%.

GOODBODY STOCKBROKERS are forecasting gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5% for the economy this year.