Operating profits at Pat McDonagh’s Supermac’s group surged by 62pc to €37.7m in 2021 as the business recovered from its city centre sites being hit by Covid-19 in 2020.
Jim O’Keeffe, the managing director of retail banking at AIB, has been appointed president of the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI).
Ireland needs a lot more forests. The Government’s recently announced Forestry Programme supports this objective and the Climate Action Plan necessitates it.