Monthly Archives: May 2013

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A chartered accountant who admitted stealing money from clients and engaging in an accountancy practice known as teeming and lading was given a four-year suspended jail sentence yesterday for the theft of €162,000. James Hackett, aged 63, of 22 Ashington, Brooklodge, Glanmire, Co Cork, was given the suspended term at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. Dermot Sheehan BL, defence barrister, said that because some of the monies were put into the accounts of other clients, the actual losses did not total €162,000, but that injured parties were out of pocket to the total of over €53,000. By appealing to family and a large group of friends, Hackett had been able to gather that compensation in full, the balance to be lodged with his solicitor within days for payment of the injured parties, said Mr Sheehan.

Accountant gets suspended term for stealing over €160,000 from clients (Liam Heylin, Irish Examiner)

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Unemployment.

It’s going to stabilise.

The ESRI’s figures show that 316,000 people – 14.7 per cent of the labour force – were out of work in 2012.

The institute expects this to fall to 305,000 this year and to 298,000 in 2014, bringing the jobless rate down to just under 14 per cent from its current level of 14.7 per cent.

Finally.

Austerity is work…

The report’s authors, David Duffy and Kevin Timoney…predict 32,000 people will emigrate this year and a further 22,000 will leave in 2014.

 

Never mind.

Think of The Gathering we’ll have in 2023.

Economy To Perform Better Than Forecasts (Barry O’Halloran, Irish Times)

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