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Green light for Eamon Waters’ Dublin 8 student accommodation complex

Locals had raised concerns over the height and scale of the 200-plus-bed project in the Blackpitts area. With permission granted, it will add to his growing stable of accommodation offerings in the capital city.

Niall Sargent
17th Sep, 2025 - 2 min read

Psychiatric Nurses Association calls for HSE review of Israeli pharma products

The organisation has joined calls for a boycott of Teva, the Israeli pharma multinational, over Israel’s war on Gaza where more than 64,000 people have been killed.
Jonathan Keane
16th Sep, 2025 - 2 min read

“We want to double profitability in the industry”: Sheridan raises $37m for Nory

Hospitality faces soaring costs and shrinking margins. Conor Sheridan believes AI can reverse the tide. With $37 million in new funding, his company Nory promises to cut admin, boost profits, and help the sector.

Ian Kehoe
16th Sep, 2025 - 5 min read

Oireachtas TV launches new €8m broadcast tender process amid worker and TD complaints

A Belfast company has won the contract to televise parliamentary debates twice in the past decade. As it comes up for renewal, employment conditions have come to the fore following a staff protest and criticism by TDs and senators.
Alice Chambers
16th Sep, 2025 - 6 min read

Legal costs in Barne Estate case likely to reach in excess of €6m

Costs in the highly-charged case taken by John Magnier are set to run into millions of euro following both a lengthy hearing this summer and also pre-trail hearings peppered throughout 2024.
Niall Sargent
15th Sep, 2025 - 3 min read

“Extreme urgency”: Peter McVerry Trust awarded €5m contract without competition

Dublin City Council was left with no choice in awarding the Housing First homeless service contract, it said, after a tender process collapsed last year.
Alice Chambers
15th Sep, 2025 - 3 min read

John Magnier loses legal challenge over Barne Estate handshake deal

Mr Justice Barrett found Magnier failed on all grounds in his claim that a handshake deal on a €15m price with the estate heirs at his home in Coolmore on the evening of August 22, 2023 was legally binding.

Niall Sargent
15th Sep, 2025 - 4 min read

“Once you’ve opened your eyes to the climate emergency, you can never look away”

As he launches his first climate book, writer and businessman John Gibbons charts his journey from childhood on the farm to national voice on climate breakdown, and a thorn in the side of the agricultural lobby.

Niall Sargent
15th Sep, 2025 - 9 min read

“I wrote a letter for him saying he could travel. He wrote a letter for me saying I could travel and the two of us headed down that morning and we opened up”

Dion Fanning
26th Jul, 2025

Joseph Birchall has led many lives. He talks to Dion Fanning about his time at a kibbutz, his experience in Israel before October 7 and the chance he had in Hollywood.

Top Voices

Private equity: Now peddling derivatives squared of its failures

Private equity's push further into the realm of continuation funds increasingly looks like a Ponzi scheme. Matched with US efforts to open PE assets to retail investors, it has the potential for disaster.
Constantin Gurdgiev
16th Sep, 2025 - 5 min read

Paul McArdle: Banking giants fight PE to keep their graduate talent

Financial services companies are finding it increasingly difficult to retain staff they have recruited and trained, and some American banks have introduced loyalty requirements. Employee retention is an on-going battle.
Paul McArdle
15th Sep, 2025 - 3 min read

Ireland and France in parallel dimensions: Rewinding the week that was

The economic and political situations of troubled France and confident Ireland could not be more different. Or are they?
Thomas Hubert
14th Sep, 2025 - 5 min read

Brett Igoe: Progress amid growing pains at the 2025 World Cup

The Women’s World Cup has showcased a sport breaking into the mainstream, with sold-out stadiums and prime-time slots. For Ireland, it has also been a reminder that building world-class teams requires patience, investment, and painful lessons along the way.
Brett Igoe
13th Sep, 2025 - 4 min read

Joe Gill: Can China’s homegrown jet take off?

The C919 is Beijing’s bold attempt to break into commercial aviation. With lessons learned from cars, ships and trains, China has shown scale and patience — but the Airbus-Boeing duopoly won’t be easy to unseat.
Joe Gill
12th Sep, 2025 - 4 min read

Tara Shine: What on Earth is happening with sustainability reporting?

Relaxed deadlines and evolving standards for European green obligations give businesses some breathing space. Concrete examples show how companies can use this time productively.
Tara Shine
11th Sep, 2025 - 6 min read

Thomas Hubert: Further Ryder Cup funding should be conditional on Adare Manor financial transparency

Swiss tax resident JP McManus’s hotel and golf resort stands to benefit most directly from up to €238m in State funding for the 2027 event, but the business doesn’t even disclose its owners.
Thomas Hubert
10th Sep, 2025 - 3 min read

A dangerous new weapon has been unearthed in Irish development policy

Regulations should be judged not by their aims but by their effects. From housing standards to climate policy, well-meaning rules in Ireland risk pricing people out of homes and stifling urban renewal — unless policymakers properly weigh costs, benefits, and trade-offs.
Ronan Lyons
9th Sep, 2025 - 7 min read

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