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The EU is plotting a major housing plan. Ireland has sent officials to hammer it out

The EU is planning an expansive effort to loosen state aid rules for local authorities on housing. The Department of Housing has seconded officials to help.
Jonathan Keane
5th Dec, 2025 - 3 min read

Brokers move to appoint liquidator to Solar21 companies behind proposed £275m plant

Investors in energy company Solar21 have long been worried about their money. Now their brokers are moving to appoint a liquidator to two key companies in the group.

Tom Lyons
4th Dec, 2025 - 2 min read

Barry Synnott resigns from Port of Cork board in third senior exit in five months

Synnott’s resignation follows the departures earlier this year of the chief commercial officer in July and the chief operations officer in October.
Alice Chambers
4th Dec, 2025 - 2 min read

“There can be no free pass for what has been done to the people of Ukraine”

A year into the job, Commissioner Michael McGrath discusses plans to bolster EU competitiveness, including new details of the upcoming bloc-wide 28th regime for companies. He also restates Europe's unwavering support for Ukraine.
Francesca Comyn
4th Dec, 2025 - 9 min read

“We will see things in the world around us”: The start-up betting on the rise of smart glasses

Meta, Apple, and Snap have all bet big on augmented reality. Michael Guerin explains how Imvizar will be well placed to take advantage and why it's looking to Hollywood to raise €5m.
Michael Cogley
4th Dec, 2025 - 9 min read

Receivers appointed to House Dublin and House Limerick venues

All Christmas bookings will be honoured at the bar and restaurant complexes, and the receivership will not affect the wider Nola Clan group.
Alice Chambers
3rd Dec, 2025 - 1 min read

Faster approvals, fewer judicial reviews: Legal risks and rewards in the new infrastructure plan

The Government's acceleration plan includes radical reforms in the legal area. While it shows ambition, some law experts have raised concerns about its impact on access to justice and the new proposals may face their own legal challenges.
M. Cogley and N. Sargent
3rd Dec, 2025 - 10 min read

AI player Perplexity moves EU rep out of Ireland to Austria

The $20bn AI firm had used an Irish company as a point of contact for EU tech laws on compliance measures such as GDPR, but in recent weeks shifted that function to an Austrian outfit.
Jonathan Keane
3rd Dec, 2025 - 2 min read

“I think we lag in adoption. I don’t think we lag in ambition”

Ian Kehoe
25th Nov, 2025

Irish business leaders are increasingly convinced that AI agents — autonomous systems capable of analysing information, making decisions and taking action — will reshape the workplace more profoundly than the internet did. Yet despite that conviction, adoption remains stubbornly slow. In this episode of The Tech Agenda, Ian Kehoe explores the findings of PwC Ireland’s new survey on AI agents, speaking with Robert Byrne, Technology Data & AI Partner at PwC Ireland, and Laoise Mullane, Director and AI Adoption Lead in PwC’s Workforce Advisory practice. Together, they unpack the contradiction at the heart of Agentic AI among Irish businesses: soaring ambition on one side, cautious adoption on the other. Byrne explains how Irish organisations are starting with back-office productivity gains but have yet to take the bigger leap toward rethinking process and operating model transformation. Mullane highlights the workforce dimension — the trust gaps, the mindset barriers and the cultural unease that arise when technology begins to act rather than simply assist. The Tech Agenda with Ian Kehoe podcast series is sponsored by PwC.

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Stuart Fitzgerald: Stop working hero hours – the best CEOs are ruthless allocators of their time

A business student's perceptive question about whether the payback for long hours justifies the grind didn't get the response it deserved from me. Here's my imperfect attempt at answering her properly.
Stuart Fitzgerald
4th Dec, 2025 - 5 min read

Colm McCarthy: A new era of capital recklessness?

From the Children’s Hospital overshoot to the revival of rail schemes without credible studies, Ireland risks repeating past mistakes as independent evaluation fades and political urgency takes precedence over economic discipline.
Colm McCarthy
3rd Dec, 2025 - 7 min read

Ireland isn’t short of plans – it’s short of a system that can deliver them

The Metrolink challenge, now in mediation until Christmas, highlights an uncomfortable truth: Ireland’s planning and review processes are so fragmented that even broadly supported projects can be frozen by legal disputes, not planning substance.
Ronan Lyons
2nd Dec, 2025 - 11 min read

Waking COP 30 – political failure versus economic reality

If anyone tells you that COP 30 shows that climate action is dead, think again. Despite the headwinds caused by the Trump administration’s love for oil and the stalling by the EU on mandatory reporting, the transition away from fossil fuels is well underway.
Tara Shine
1st Dec, 2025 - 5 min read

Misreading the mixed signals on planning: Rewinding the week that was

Frustration about housing and infrastructure has led to confusion between private interests, environmental obligations, and the processes at play to balance them against the public good.
Thomas Hubert
30th Nov, 2025 - 6 min read

Andy Farrell’s Ireland fought the law – and the law won. Now it’s time to react and recalibrate

Irish players are getting penalised for actions that have been coached into them – deliberate, trained behaviours that are all about pushing boundaries. The problem is that referees now have their number.
Brett Igoe
29th Nov, 2025 - 5 min read

The Irish economy is just hitting a soft patch – unless risks materialise

The slowdown is not yet pointing to a recession. But why run both a security and political risk when there is no need to run either?
Dan O'Brien
28th Nov, 2025 - 5 min read

Willie O’Reilly: Irish-made TV faces the hypocrisy of viewers

The majority of television watched in Ireland is imported, mostly from the UK. Public clamour for indigenous programming doesn’t match the private choices made in Irish homes.
Willie O'Reilly
27th Nov, 2025 - 3 min read

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