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Gone, not forgotten: Remembering those who passed away in 2025

From business and sport to culture and public life, 2025 saw the loss of figures who helped shape modern Ireland.

Looking back at 2025: 25 sports features that captured the year

From conversations with the key decision-makers in sport to investigative looks at how major sporting bodies are funded and run, The Currency covers sport with a perspective all our own.

Listening closely: 25 interviews from 2025 worth your time

From rare media interviews to deeply personal reflections on power, creativity and leadership, these 25 conversations offer an unfiltered look at the people shaping Ireland’s public, cultural and economic life.

Ian Kehoe

26th Dec, 2025 - 14 min read

Stories

Tick tock at Closutton: Patrick Mullins on family, Michael O’Leary, and a life in racing

In a deeply personal conversation, Patrick Mullins talks grief and gratitude, growing up inside a racing dynasty, and why writing can mean as much as winning.

Johnny Ward

25th Dec, 2025 - 10 min read

Stories

The remarkable life of Mick McCarthy, the Barnsley bruiser still talking a good game

The former Ireland soccer manager is seemingly unimpressed with the portrayal of him in the upcoming movie Saipan, but there's still a big audience for his plain-talking views – these days via a hit podcast.

Kieran Cunningham

24th Dec, 2025 - 8 min read

Behind the €40m IDA deal: Mediaworks and the business of promoting Ireland

IDA Ireland sought contracts for media monitoring, creative advertising, graphic design and PR in service of attracting FDI from foreign markets, in particular the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, China, and South Korea.

Alice Chambers

24th Dec, 2025 - 3 min read

Breaking News: The full three-part series on boom and bust in Ireland’s local newspaper industry

Frenzied auctions for regional titles made millionaires out of many and put most of the buyers on the road to bankruptcy. A major three-part series is now republished as an updated long read.

Alan English

23rd Dec, 2025 - 65 min read

Budget changes, buyouts and a growing war chest: Inside Total Dental’s growth plan

The dental group, backed by London investor Lonsdale Capital, has secured debt funding from DunPort Capital to fund further growth. CEO Steven Lynch outlines the group's plans for 2026 and why the budget brought deals to a halt.

Michael Cogley

23rd Dec, 2025 - 6 min read

A salmon giant and an expired licence: The Kerry fish farm set for the High Court

A nature NGO wants the court to quash the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board's decision to reverse a ministerial order that stripped a Mowi-subsidiary farm of its right to operate for overharvesting in 2016.

Niall Sargent

23rd Dec, 2025 - 4 min read

A €99 million question: Who will deliver Housing First in Dublin for the next decade?

The State’s previously underfunded flagship homeless programme contributed to financial woes at the Peter McVerry Trust. A new procurement approach aims to stabilise its provision.

A. Chambers and T. Hubert

22nd Dec, 2025 - 4 min read

Planning refused for Eamon Waters’ hostel plans on Camden Street

Dublin City Council found the proposed tourist hostel in a protected building would set an undesirable precedent for similar development in the historic area, as well as devalue property in the vicinity.

Niall Sargent

22nd Dec, 2025 - 3 min read

“We want to be the Coca Cola of the music industry”

John Corley, CEO and co-founder of Spanish Point Technologies, discusses leveraging organic growth in software services to build the market leader in music-rights tech globally.

Alice Chambers

22nd Dec, 2025 - 10 min read

Aryzta settles legal wrangle with former chief executive Kevin Toland

Legal disputes arose over performance entitlements due to senior executives who had exited Aryzta in the investor upheaval that engulfed the company behind bake-off business Cuisine de France, and other brands in late 2020.

Francesca Comyn

22nd Dec, 2025 - 2 min read

“For at least a thousand years the Book of Kells has profoundly shaped Ireland”

Dion Fanning

20th Dec, 2025

James Joyce considered it the most Irish thing we had. It has been here for a thousand years and endured many dramas but there are many mysteries about the Book of Kells. Victoria Whitworth talks to Dion Fanning about what she has come to believe about the Book of Kells’s creation and why Irish monks might have nothing to do with it.

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Ronan Lyons: Housing, health and the long view

Long before antibiotics or mass vaccination, better homes saved lives. New evidence from Ireland’s labourers’ cottages shows how improving light, air, and space quietly reshaped public health – and why housing quality still matters far beyond shelter.