Skills shortages have leapfrogged access to finance as the major concern of construction sector surveyors, according to a major new report. Just over eight in 10 surveyors in Ireland say the building sector is now experiencing a skills shortage, an increase of 7 percentage points in the last six months, according to the joint report […]

The UK government agreed yesterday to order its overseas territories such as the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands to make secretive company ownership information public by the end of 2020 to try to tackle corruption and tax avoidance. The move was hailed as a major victory by campaigners in the fight against tax […]

Irish brands such as Fruitfield, Kerrygold, Barry’s Tea, Jameson and Cheesestrings could find themselves caught in a barrage of price cuts amid intensifying concentration among UK grocery chains. With Sainbury’s, the UK’s second-largest grocery chain, having agreed this week to buy Walmart-owned Asda, the UK’s third-biggest, retail analysts are predicting a renewed wave of grocery […]

Tens of thousands of Ulster Bank customers got a nasty shock last week when their money vanished from their accounts. This was the latest in a string of IT glitches that have hit all the major Irish and UK banks in recent years. Last Monday startled Ulster Bank customers found that money that had previously […]

The Government must create a level playing field between Irish SMEs and multinationals by rebalancing enterprise policy towards protecting indigenous Irish business, the new President of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA Ireland) has said. Cormac Mohan, managing partner at FM Accountants & Business Advisors, said it was “a strategic imperative” to create an […]