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FIGURES THAT SHOW that more women are taking up company directorships since the start of the recession have been described as “encouraging”.
Analysis of company records from Vision-net show that there are now 104, 971 women in director roles in Irish companies. There were 92,281 in those roles in 2008 – and just 48,571 in 2003. That constitutes a hike of 14 per cent in the number of women in director roles since the economic crash. As there are 494,571 directors in Ireland in total, one in five are now women.
Most of the female directors are in their 40s and 50s – only 4 per cent are in their 20s – and are more likely to operate in the professional, social and personal services, as well as in the construction sector.
In an aside, the most common first name for a female director in Ireland is Mary, followed by Margaret, Anne and Catherine.
However, it also emerged yesterday that only 8 per cent of board members in Irish public limited companies are women. Over half of all PLCs (57 per cent) have no women on their board at all. These figures, compiled by research firm Accreate ahead of today’s International Women’s Day, found that Ireland is “lagging behind” our nearest neighbours, the UK, where 17.3 per cent of all PLC board members are women. In Norway, the figure is 35.9 per cent representation.
There had been some good news for businesses in the end of February figures released from company records, which showed that the number of businesses collapsing had slowed down considerably over 12 months. Although 140 businesses had dropped the shutters between 1 and 25 February, this was a 32 per cent decrease on the same period in 2012. Most of the insolvencies had been in Dublin (44 per cent) and Cork and Kildare had 10 per cent and 8 per cent of the cases respectively.
On the other side of the coin, 3,418 new companies started up in February – that was up 7 per cent on the same period last year. Something to note though: of these, 2,277 were simply registered business names and 1,141 were the incorporation of new companies.
There was less satisfying news, however, in the hospitality and construction sectors – over 66 per cent of businesses in hospitality, and 58 per cent of those in construction, were deemed ‘high risk’.
They didn’t “make it their home”. They didn’t wake up one morning and think “Strewth lads, let move to Ireland!” They were moved there. Captured, transported and placed there. It’s akin to slavery. And not just them, their descendants too.
Shameful. Truly shameful.
I may have been drinking.
@Damocles: lolwut
@Damocles: Woah! Lig do scíth a chara. Tá siad sásta agus ina gcónaí i nádúr!
@Damocles: jesus lad have a water.
@Damocles: No you’re an idiot – who has to comment on everything. Every day…
@Paul Foot: I’ve barely touched this site in a couple of weeks and I’ve commented on maybe 3 stories today.
@TheJournalAsGaeilge: I’ll bung that through Google translate in the morning if I remember.
@TheJournalAsGaeilge: In English please – if you want most to undetstand you.
@Paul Foot: then I’ll block you and never have to suffer your moaning again. Goodbye.
@Damocles: Block me for the truth? Great – bye, clown.
@Damocles: don’t waste you time it’s just more shite talk but he gets a grant every time he spouts….,,
@TheJournalAsGaeilge: they are happy and that’s the main thing !
@TheJournalAsGaeilge: They are our friends & happy in their home or something like that, My irish is crap
@Paul Foot: I thought it was quite amusing. Lighthearted, funny, entertaining, sure we can’t be serious all the time now can we?
@Pat Lonergan: there’s a lot of shite talk here. I think people get involved too much when there’s a story to be told especially when animals are introduced here like who cares
@Damocles: you can’t spell spanner without spa.
@Pat Lonergan: it’s just 2 taps on the screen. Try it.
@Paul Foot: the truth according to Paul Foot …
@Damocles: A bit like Irish and British convicts in Australia so…
@Richard Wright: You get awfully upset when people speak As Gaeilge Richard. Show some composure chap, what would the Queen think if one of her subjects were acting in such an unmannerly fashion.
@Richard Wright: Can you provide some proof about that. Especially the part about the big breasts.
What’s that Skippy? The kids are trapped down the old mineshaft on Lambay….
There are concerns that a wigwam (the collective term) of wallabies could use a raft to reach the mainland and found a political party with a genuine spring in its step. Remember Dick Spring – well even springier than that. The authorities are keeping a close eye on developments.
Wasn’t aware that Lambay Island was owned by the Baring family of Barings Bank. I read recently that during the Irish famine that Trevelyan’s corn was purchased by the British government through Baring Brothers Bank and the cost of which was subsequently recouped from Irish taxpayers.
@Diaspora’d: link?
@Fank Pulman: goodness sake! Google “Irish famine Baring Brothers Bank”, lots of links, the first one is from Wikipedia. You also listen to Finn Dwyer’s great Irish History Podcast his series on the Irish Famine is exceptional and harrowing.
@Diaspora’d: Thank you – helpful.
@Diaspora’d: technically the article should say “the former…” as Barings rather famously disappeared in 1995 following the actions of “Rouge Trader” Nick Leeson. Barings therefore wasn’t around to cause any further damage to Irish taxpayers in 2007/8.
@Terry McClatchey: if he spent less time swapping lipstick it would have been grand
@Zx5vZulB: good spot Gar. You leave me red faced.
@Terry McClatchey: interesting how both the family of Barings and Nick Lesson both reside in Ireland.
This is dangerous. Has nobody seen Jurassic Park? Life will find a way.
God made mammals, not marsupials. I heard that they can open doors, spread gossip and they collude with squirrels. Not the nice squirrels. The other ones. You know what I’m implying. Securities fraud. We need to be smart.
@Mike Igoe: God made woman and they can open doors, spread gossip and collude with squirrels, why did nobody warn us about them?
We need to take back Lambay Island .Let’s get the boats out.
@Vincent Sharpe: we can’t even run our own island
Experimenting and meddling with nature led to the grey squirrel’s and mink killing off some of our native wildlife. Other exotic plant species such as Japanese Knotweed were introduced into Ireland by wealthy estate owners during earlier centuries are now considered invasive and are proving difficult to get rid of having spread in an uncontrolled fashion.
Cattle are wildlife? Did I miss something?
Baring. As in Baring’s Bank?
@Sheila Larkin: Barings Bank*…yes that’s what the article says.
Its a wonderful location for a walk https://vimeo.com/224459441
It’s a wonderful location for a walk https://vimeo.com/224459441
Have they got passports
Bankers island eh.
Why are they such a problem if they reached the mainland? Other than the fact they bread a lot? Genuine question.
They’ll take all our women and jobs
@Niall Farrell: they are considered no better than rats down under.
There has always been a food few living wild in the south of England. I had them around my house there but most people thought it was a myth until one went through the windscreen of a police car. There was an Australian guy down the road who apparently shot and ate one and made a hat from the fur. I had one who got caught in a wire fence and it brutally kicked the carp out of us three guys who tried to get it free. Nice critters though. I’ve always wondered how they would fare in Leitrim.
Only in ireland.
And Tasmania. Seems like a tail with a happy ending.
THE WOBBLIES ARE COMING
Wombling free?
Could be a comment about gentrification if you make some slight changes to the text: “How a colony of wannabies made an island of Dublin their home.”
I like how its called “Red Necked” Wallaby
Its just wrong, they’re basically another squirrel. Send them back to oz and see if we can send they’re crooked owners with them.
Worth noting that if they really get out of control numbers wise they’re very very tasty (I lived in Tasmania for several years) possible new industry here :)
Get worried when they start building rafts
Wonderful. A colony of wannabe wallabies inhabiting Lambay, perceived as slaves (“They didn’t wake up one morning and say ‘Lads, lets go to Ireland’”) and liable to escape from the island any day to form a new political party. Glorious prospect: we are blessed.
Squirrels have a habit of always chewing on trees. Constant chewing is not good for trees. Though big ones might be able to handle it but small ones will eventually die. Chewed barks and branches also aren’t very good to look at either. They are also responsible for complete destruction of plants. As the squirrels have a bit of constantly chewing and digging searching for food, they can rip the plant from roots. There goes your dream of seeing a plant grow in front of your eyes in your yard. We know how to get rid of squirrels in the trees!http://starpestcontrol.ca/pest_control_service/squirrel/
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