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Forfas — one of the quangos that looks after science and enterprise — is wasting €1.2m per year by paying rent on empty offices. The quango paid its board members, which included former FAS boss Rody Molloy, almost €139,000 last year in fees and expenses.
Tags: office space, Forfas, Ireland, Dublin, FᅢチS expenditure controversy, Quango, Mary Coughlan, Forfᅢᄀs, Leasehold estate, Politics, Real estate, Renting, Real property law
Government to boost tax breaks for foreign executives in next month's Budget after recent tax hikes have made it almost impossible to attract talent here. Currently, foreign executives who work in Ireland pay full tax on the first €100,000 earned, with...
Tags: tax breaks, Ireland, foreigners executive, Belgium, Brussels, Public finance, Tax, Income tax, Business Finance, Taxation, Finance, International taxation
Ireland can and probably will win against South Africa next Saturday. The Springboks on the tour so far have looked like a team that has simply played too many matches in 2009. The world champions and Tri Nations winners have had an embarrassing tour...
Tags: Ireland, South Africa, Springboks, London Irishman, Toulouse, France, Saracens F.C., Bryan Habana, Rugby football, South Africa national rugby union team, Scrum, Ronan O'Gara, allnews
Raymond Domenech was the sole obstacle to Ireland 's game against France being replayed, the Sunday Independent has learned. Domenech refused to allow the French Football Federation to agree to a replay of France's game against Ireland despite the overwhelming...
Tags: Ireland, Raymond Domenech, FIFA, FAI, French Football Federation, France, FFF, Irish, Dublin, Martin Hansson, Domenech, allnews
Two of Ireland 's most successful businessmen reckon that the Government could benefit from listening to the views of entrepreneurs in formulating next month's Budget. As the Budget looms, Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary called on the Government...
Tags: tough decisions, Ireland, Dublin
That's one of the only things that could ever make me actually write a column that has to do with soccer. Although, I must admit, this isn't completely going to be about short shorts and kneesocks — at least not entirely. So, by now, most of us have all...
Tags: Thierry Henry, world cup, Ireland, hand ball, Zinedine Zidane, South Africa, Cape Town, William Gallas, Unsportsmanlike conduct, allnews, Evra, Titi, Ani, Football (soccer) fullbacks, Patrice Evra, New World monkeys, FIFA World Cup, Headbutt, Diego Maradona, FIFA World Cup Final, FIFA 100, Instant replay, MLB instant replay, Team handball, Replay, The Play, Football, Ball games
Nick Williams left the racing world guessing as to Diamond Harry's future target after he sparkled under top weight in the £100,000 Timeform Betfair Racing Club 'Fixed Brush' Handicap Hurdle at Haydock. The Cheltenham Festival third turned what would...
Tags: Williams, Ireland, Dublin, Horse racing in Japan, Horse racing in New Zealand, Timeform, Betfair, Horse racing, Horse racing in Australia, Horse racing in Great Britain
Páidí ó Sé yesterday warmly welcomed the development which he described as "hugely significant" in the future development of the GAA . He said that there was "a lot of dead weight" in county board officerships and in recent years some of their failures...
Tags: Ireland, Dublin, An Ghaeltacht GAA, allnews, Pᅢᄀidᅢᆳ ᅢモ Sᅢᄅ, Gaelic Athletic Association, Year of birth missing
Humberside last week that counselling might be required for a group of young men returning from foreign fields. The three Irishmen who play for Hull City had not lost comrades but merely a football match, witnessing nothing more horrific than some nifty...
Tags: West Ham United, Ireland, Dublin, Kamil Zayatte, Julien Faubert, Matt Duke, Hull City A.F.C., Jack Collison, English footballers, Jimmy Bullard, Bernard Mendy, allnews
In 1994, the last time Sligo Rovers qualified for the FAI Cup final, I cut a deal with God. If the choice was between Rovers winning the cup final and Ireland winning the World Cup, I'd take the Rovers victory...On this side of the world, we won the Cup...
Tags: Sligo Rovers, Ireland, world cup, Paris, cup final, Sligo, League of Ireland, FAI Cup, Conor O'Grady, Derry City F.C. players, Romuald Boco, Sligo Rovers F.C., allnews