Feargal McCormack awarded Outstanding Contribution to Accountancy Award

Chartered Accountants Ireland is delighted to announce that past President Feargal McCormack is the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Contribution to Accountancy Award at the Irish Accountancy Awards on 1 May. Previous winners of this award are Dr Laurence Crowley, Elaine Coughlan, Prof Patricia Barker, and Terence O'Rourke. We warmly congratulate Feargal on this significant recognition of his contribution to the profession.

Former President of Chartered Accountants Ireland (2018/19), Feargal McCormack founded award-winning FPM Chartered Accountants in 1991 and subsequently this was the first accountancy practice in Ireland to secure private equity funding in 2022 when it merged with AAB Accountants. Feargalis currently AAB Senior Partner and Head of Family Business for the AAB Group.

Feargal is the recipient of many awards and accolades, making him a deserving winner of this special award at the 2025 Irish Accountancy Awards. He was awarded Managing Partner of the Year at the 2018 British Accountancy Awards and was selected as The Irish Accountant of the Year in 2019. Feargal has been awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees by both Queens University Belfast (2021) and Ulster University (2018) for his contribution to business and community on the island of Ireland. In 2022, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the NI Business Eye Awards for significant and lasting contributions to: business; the accounting sector; the NI business community; and the economy as a whole.

He currently is Senior Independent Governor on the Queens University Senate, Chairman of the GAA National Finance Committee at Croke Park, a Director of Co-Operation Ireland Limited and a Patron of Special Olympics Ireland.