Top Stories

CCPC contacts 26 influencers over commercial content after EU sweep 

The Commission screened the social media accounts of 576 influencers for potential breaches of consumer protection rules. Now the consumer protection authority here is taking further action.

Niall Sargent
22nd Apr, 2024 - 2 min read

One of the country’s most exclusive hotel and golf resorts is being put up for sale

The owner of the Mount Juliet hotel and golf resort in Co Kilkenny has appointed JLL Ireland to sell the property, the latest in a string of high-end hotel assets to come on the market.

Tom Lyons
19th Apr, 2024 - 1 min read

Cork City Council “looking at options” to repair historic English Market roof

Traders in the English Market are concerned about leaks in the roof of the iconic food hall. Cork City Council (CCC) is looking at how best to repair the roof without closing the market, and how to fund it.
Tom Lyons
19th Apr, 2024 - 1 min read

The State’s hardest job: KPMG’s Michele Connolly on the delivery of complex infrastructure projects

Ireland is a wealthy nation but its track record on producing major infrastructural projects is mixed. Who are the people who will build the future nation?
Sean Keyes
19th Apr, 2024 - 8 min read

McSorley’s, the landmark pub in Ranelagh, is near being sold to former Irish rugby stars

McSorley’s is known as a place to watch rugby games, and now a group of former players is buying it. They outbid a private equity firm to secure it.

Tom Lyons
18th Apr, 2024 - 2 min read

Mexican standoff: Pablo Picante owner appeals Eamon Waters’s hotel plans

Plans to redevelop Textile House beside Stephen's Green Shopping Centre have stirred up local opposition and already been delayed twice by Dublin City Council concerns over the size and scale of the new plans.

Niall Sargent
18th Apr, 2024 - 2 min read

“The scale of the opportunity is large”: Kota is going deep in the UK market

The Dublin insurance tech start-up has partnered with insurer Vitality as it expands its presence in the British market and eyes the rest of Europe.
Jonathan Keane
18th Apr, 2024 - 3 min read

Irelandia-backed Skyports raises $110m to develop air taxi and drone services

The Spanish-headquartered ACS Group has become the biggest investor in drone and vertiport developer Skyports, which has been backed by Irish-owned Irelandia since 2019.
Tom Lyons
17th Apr, 2024 - 2 min read

“I don’t think Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams had any appetite for violence at all”

Dion Fanning
30th Mar, 2024

In his book, Stakeknife’s Dirty War, the former H-Block prisoner, Richard O’Rawe, provides the inside story on Freddie Scappaticci. In an interview with Dion Fanning, he explores the many lives of Scappaticci, his own experience as a prisoner during the hunger strikes, and his views on Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams as they pursued peace, viewed as “treachery in a pristine sense” by many republicans.

Top Voices

A familiar tax tiff for Harris at first EU summit: Rewinding the week that was

Separate EU attempts at corporation tax harmonisation and capital markets integration are nothing new. The suggestion that they might be linked is, but it didn’t seem to stick.
Thomas Hubert
21st Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Factions and fatalism: Dion Fanning on the FAI’s search for meaning, a CEO and a manager

Jonathan Hill’s time as FAI CEO will be remembered for a payments controversy and the failure to secure a national manager. But the dysfunction that has long shaped - and derailed - the organisation is deep-rooted and culturally embedded.
Dion Fanning
20th Apr, 2024 - 8 min read

Sam Smyth: Televised racism, DNA and unpaid compensation tower over the death of OJ Simpson

The trial of NFL football hero OJ Simpson was one of biggest stories from America in the past 30 years. His death last week leaves many dark areas around the crimes he was never found guilty of having committed.
Sam Smyth
20th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Energy efficiency saving millions but real reward of emissions fall slow to fruit

New data points to momentum in reducing public sector energy emissions, but fossil fuel use is still high. Private firms face similar challenges as efficiency gains come slow. Will progress come too late?
Niall Sargent
19th Apr, 2024 - 6 min read

Promises, promises: Election 2025 (?) has started and it will colour everything

The real question, however, is what is to be done about health? Health’s budget will continue to balloon without better data on what is being spent where and for what outcome.

Stephen Kinsella
18th Apr, 2024 - 6 min read

As elections near, MEPs take stock of European SME policy

The new taoiseach has promised to help struggling indigenous companies but the state of EU policies for small businesses shows many gaps to be bridged, writes Jonathan Keane in Brussels.
Jonathan Keane
17th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Ronan Lyons: Costs efficiency should be the metric that will see the State hit housing targets

Simon Harris has promised that his Government will build 250,000 new homes over the next five years. However, many, many more are needed and the taoiseach must make his strategy and tactics very clear.
Ronan Lyons
16th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

How some Irish businesses become exceptions to the dual-economy rule: Rewinding the week that was

Deals announced by Winthrop and Strong Roots on Thursday built a bridge between indigenous businesses struggling in the face of rising costs and the world of high-flying multinationals.

Thomas Hubert
14th Apr, 2024 - 4 min read

© 2024 Currency Media Limited

Sign In

Forgot your password?
Logo

Not a subscriber yet?

Create an account
Access by subscribing or logging in
Collapse
INTRODUCTORY OFFER: Sign up today and pay just €5 for the first month.

Avail of our special offer and get full access to The Currency for one year for just €200.

Cancel at any time.