I am writing to clarify some points made by Mr Martin Sisk, president of the ILCU, in your recent article (July 25). Mr Sisk states that the proposed voluntary transfer between Berehaven Credit Union and another credit union was ‘found not to be feasible by the Central Bank’. This is incorrect.

IN normal life they would be drawing the pension but a growing band of older musicians are, as Neil (not so) Young, would say, ‘rockin’ in the free world’, shaking it all out on stage.

Artworks entered for one of the country’s biggest competitions brought plenty of colour to Croke Park after the gloomy start to spring.

Culture Ireland’s new CEO Christine Sisk relishes the opportunity to promote Irish artists abroad, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Animal feed suppliers Rhyno Mills and The Farm Store have jointly opened a new partnership called Rhyno Farm Store Ltd.

Despite almost four years of recession, Ireland’s richest are getting even richer.

THE National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) should be used to re-energise the country’s property market by providing “adequate working capital and finance” given the continuing absence of bank lending, according to the Construction Industry Federation (CIF).

CONSTRUCTION giant John Sisk & Son paid out a dividend of more than €90 million last year as pre-tax profits fell by €2.5m.

HIBERNIAN and John Sisk and Son have won the Irish leg of the national Good Practice Awards held in association with the Health and Safety Authority yesterday.

A palaeontologist whose Texas beachfront home was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size tooth in the debris.

PRE-TAX profits at the Sisk Group slumped 21.5% to €64.2 million last year in what the company called a competitive market.

John Sisk & Son has won the contract to build the new Lansdowne Road Stadium.

THE gulf between second and third division teams in the AIB League was highlighted at Temple Hill, Cork, last night, as Highfield deservedly advanced to the final of the ODM Munster Senior Cup.

Sisk, Ireland’s largest construction company, has been appointed main contractor on the New Stadium at Lansdowne Road.

THE Sisk family, owners of the country’s top construction company, are about to pass the baton on to the next generation.

A LIMERICK GAA club has clinched a super property swap with millionaire race horse owner JP McManus.

CONSTRUCTION giant John Sisk & Sons has said pre-tax profits last year more than doubled.

Michael O’Farrell, Political Reporter

THE head of one of the country’s top five construction companies says excessive union action has the potential to be a disaster for the industry.