Top Stories

McGregor has “personal conflict” ahead of courtroom whiskey showdown

The standoff between former MMA fighters Artem Lobov and Conor McGregor is over an alleged handshake deal on the proceeds of the sale of the Irish fighter's Proper No. 12 whiskey brand.
Francesca Comyn
6th Nov, 2025 - 2 min read

ASML’s Irish revenue surges to €1.2bn as the chip game keeps heating up

The Dutch firm builds printing machines for making high-tech chips and serves Intel in Leixlip. It and companies like Applied Materials have built Irish bases that hinge on the US chipmaker.
Jonathan Keane
6th Nov, 2025 - 3 min read
Karl McHugh

Atlantic Dawn is acquiring a controlling stake in Biomarine Ingredients

Two years ago, clients of Cantor Fitgerald who had invested in a protein ingredients business risked losing their funds. Now a major raw material supplier has come to the rescue.

Tom Lyons
5th Nov, 2025 - 2 min read

“Total disregard”: Boeing’s legal tussle with the Irish aircraft leasing arm of Russia’s VEB

Timaero Ireland Limited sued Boeing over six years ago. Now the aircraft maker has accused the company, linked to a sanctioned Russian bank, of frustrating discovery and depositions.
Jonathan Keane
5th Nov, 2025 - 4 min read

€1.75m debt guarantee from McKillen Jr era hits Dean Hotel Group

Back in 2022, Paddy McKillen Jr controlled interests across property, hospitality and serviced offices. As loans are called in, cross-guarantees given at the time are now biting.
Thomas Hubert
4th Nov, 2025 - 2 min read

Leading auto-repair and recovery firms form new green-focused business

GT Group and Ted Brennan Motors will build on the two companies' experience in vehicle recovery, crash repair, and salvage auctioning using carbon-labelled green parts.
Niall Sargent
4th Nov, 2025 - 2 min read

“Transformative on multiple levels”: Irish medtech Deciphex opens Oxford test lab as it ramps up UK expansion

The start-up, often described as an "Uber for pathology", has just secured a crucial approval to carry out pathological testing in the UK. CEO Donal O'Shea speaks about building out its UK footprint and plans to scale up in the US.
Michael Cogley
4th Nov, 2025 - 5 min read

Ireland’s €160bn question: Can a new investment account turn savers into investors?

The Government will closely watch the introduction of new EU tax-efficient savings and investment accounts. But the funds industry may spy a big opportunity to act as the home for the bloc's newest investors.
Michael Cogley
4th Nov, 2025 - 14 min read

“DJ did a beeline for my husband on the side of the hurling field and he said, ‘I have the same cancer as your wife’”

Thomas Hubert
1st Nov, 2025

Journalist Eimear Ní Bhraonáin is the author of The Dodger: DJ Carey and the Great Betrayal, a book exploring the personality and deception of Kilkenny’s former hurling great. From impromptu requests for €100 during chance encounters to elaborate stories about his fake cancer to tap wealthy victims including Denis O’Brien, she tells Dion Fanning about the traits that led Carey down a a path of fraud, how he targeted his victims — and the dark corners that continue to surround the years before he was caught.

Top Voices

Joe Gill: Aircraft technology is changing how airlines operate

The lines between long- and short-haul, trunk and point-to-point routes are blurring as more efficient jets redefine the economics of each seat – and the rules of competition.
Joe Gill
5th Nov, 2025 - 4 min read

Postcard from Astana: Capacity, not ideology, will shape Ireland’s future

From housing to energy to reunification, Ireland’s challenge is no longer what to believe in, but how to build it. Astana’s story shows that state capacity — not politics — is the true test of national ambition.
Ronan Lyons
4th Nov, 2025 - 7 min read

Smile, you’re on camera. Always. Everywhere

Facial recognition was sold as a convenience — faster boarding passes, safer streets, smarter security. Instead, it’s ushering in an era of constant surveillance where anonymity is vanishing, and your face is the password you can’t change.
Markham Nolan
3rd Nov, 2025 - 7 min read

What sport reveals about how we work and lead: Rewinding the week that was

What connects a boxing coach, a rugby manager and a business founder? In sport and in life, the same rules apply – build trust, put people first, and culture will do the rest.

Ian Kehoe
2nd Nov, 2025 - 5 min read

Sports journalism in Ireland is unrecognisable from when I started out, but spare me the golden-era nostalgia

Kieran Cunningham stepped down as chief sports writer of the Irish Daily Star last week after nearly three decades. Access to the big names was far easier in the old days, he writes – but that didn't always make for better coverage
Kieran Cunningham
1st Nov, 2025 - 8 min read

Chicago II: Ireland return to where belief was born, looking to shake off rust

To beat the All Blacks for a second time at Soldier Field, Andy Farrell's men must follow the Joe Schmidt playbook in 2016, when ghosts were exorcised: attack, attack, attack.
Brett Igoe
1st Nov, 2025 - 5 min read

Thomas Hubert: Whom should the State sell PTSB to – and to do what?

The Government will want as high a price as possible for its shares in the last bank it owns, but there is more at stake in this sale for the Irish economy than just cash proceeds.
Thomas Hubert
31st Oct, 2025 - 4 min read

Humanoids raising funds: Where are Asia’s top VCs placing their chips? 

Electric cars are old school. China’s investors are betting on the next technology trends, with live-in robots among the hottest tickets, writes Ian Lahiffe in Beijing.
Ian Lahiffe
30th Oct, 2025 - 4 min read

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