Johnny Sexton's management company records a six-figure profit
The €425,952 post-tax profit followed a post-tax loss of €83,240 in the prior year – a positive swing of €509,192.
The profit for last year resulted in the firm sitting on accumulated profits of €2.67m at the end of last September.
Cash funds at the company last year more than halved from €1.3m to €554,744, while during the same period the value of the company's financial assets increased by €1.22m from €881,826 to €2.11m.
Sexton's memoir was Ireland's biggest selling non-fiction title of 2024
The accounts – signed off by directors Johnny Sexton and wife Laura on August 6 – show that aggregate pay to directors last year decreased sharply from €322,334 to €238,606, made up of emoluments of €63,759 and pension contributions of €174,856.
Sexton – who turned 40 last month – added to his company's coffers in the current financial year with sales from his book Obsessed: The Autobiography, which was the biggest selling non-fiction title of 2024 in Ireland. Its release in paperback resulted in a fresh surge in sales.
The former Ireland outhalf will also have benefited from the Government's innovative tax relief programme – introduced in 2002 – for professional sportspeople which allows them to receive a generous tax refund in the year they retire permanently from their sport.
The tax relief has helped efforts by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) to keep Ireland's top rugby players at home, as they can claim the tax relief on their earnings in Ireland over a 10-year period of their careers.
After retiring from the game in October 2023 following Ireland's loss to New Zealand, Sexton took up a senior role with glass bottle and tin-can maker Ardagh.
Earlier this year Sexton was added to the British and Irish Lions coaching ticket ahead of taking up a full-time coaching role with the Ireland rugby team this month, as well as working with men's and women's senior and age-grade teams.
He has been working with the Ireland men's squad in a part-time coaching capacity since the 2024 autumn series.
Sexton set up his professional management firm in 2010 to handle earnings from commercial ventures such as sponsorships and image rights.
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