{"id":391281,"date":"2026-04-10T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391281\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:05:07","slug":"director-pay-nears-e15m-at-ward-burke-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391281\/","title":{"rendered":"Director pay nears \u20ac15m at Ward &#038; Burke \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Pay to directors at international construction business Ward &amp; Burke surged last year by 78 per cent to \u20ac14.82 million on the back of another record performance by the Co Galway headquartered engineering group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">New consolidated accounts filed by the Kilcolgan-based Ward &amp; Burke Group Ltd show that directors\u2019 remuneration surged as pretax profits increased by 16.5 per cent from \u20ac38.53 million to \u20ac44.87 million last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This followed global revenues increasing by 21 per cent to \u20ac647.29 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The accounts show that remuneration to directors increased from \u20ac8.3 million in 2024 to \u20ac14.82 million last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The pay to directors applies to all directors employed across the entire group of companies and subsidiaries operating in Ireland, the UK, Canada and the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The directors did not recommend a dividend last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The group last year recorded post tax profits of \u20ac36.78 million after incurring a corporation tax charge of \u20ac8.08 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland remains its largest market where revenues last year increased by 26 per cent to \u20ac274.45 million while revenues in Europe increased by 18 per cent to \u20ac163.3 million while revenues in \u2018Rest of World\u2019 rose from \u20ac177.18 million to \u20ac209.52 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The growth in the group overseen by shareholders and directors for Ward &amp; Burke Group Ltd, P\u00e1draig Burke, Michael Ward and Robert Ward resulted in numbers employed increasing by 142 from 1,152 to 1,294.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Staff costs, including directors\u2019 salaries, last year increased by \u20ac24.15 million to \u20ac150.54 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The profits for last year take account of non-cash depreciation costs of \u20ac21.7 million, non-cash amortisation costs of \u20ac824,158 and a \u20ac7.6 million loss on foreign currencies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The record performance further strengthened the group\u2019s balance sheet as accumulated profits hit \u20ac199.2 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The group\u2019s cash flow statement show that the group generated \u20ac55.54 million in cash from operations last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pay to directors at international construction business Ward &amp; Burke surged last year by 78 per cent to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4500,61,60],"class_list":["post-391281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-galway","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}