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“Staggering" report shows four Irish businesses a day going bust

By
JAYNE WALSHE,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Monday, January 4, 2010, 7:15 AM
Updated Monday, January 4, 2010, 7:31 AM

 

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Bankruptcies are up in Ireland

Four Irish companies a day went bust last year, according to a new report.

The extraordinary rate of bankruptcies shows how deep the financial crisis has hit the country says Insolvencyjournal.ie, which compiled the report.

 The year ended on a bad note with 156 companies, a record amount, going under in December.

The number of bankruptcies was up 82 per cent from the year before and 287 per cent higher than similar business failures in 2007.

The construction industry was the hardest hit, with 453 companies going bust last year, 49 alone in December.

The services sector was next hardest hit with 278 bankruptcies, retail sales lost 201 companies, hospitality had 154 companies go broke, while car sales companies were decimated with 58 companies going under as new sales plummeted.

Ken Fennell, from Kavanagh Fennell, the accountancy firm behind the website, said that numbers would continue to increase this year only leveling off in the last quarter.

“For the coming year, the outlook remains pessimistic as the rate of insolvency will be similar to 2009, with a peak mid-year followed by a gradual reduction in the last quarter of 2010,” Fennell said.

He described the increase in company failures in 2009 as “staggering.”

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Posted by kickstar on Jan 04, 2010, 01:29 PM EST
I never knew there were so many Bengal Lancers in Ireland and what they could not supply they imported.
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Posted by ChrisButler9999 on Jan 04, 2010, 07:49 AM EST
It's amazing what opinions can do to allow the scum of Ireland to destroy the society. Since introducing opinions into Irish Law since 1996 the amount of money that has disappeared out of Ireland has caused a so called credit crunch worse than everywhere else. Its a lot easier to destroy a nation by allowing traitors the uncontrolled use of opinions in accountancy. Opinions being the best way to hide the details of any form of crime.
 


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