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Money for ropey old stories: Keane the caricature seems to enjoy easy cash and public acclaim

He was Manchester United's best paid player for years and is pulling in seven figures as a Sky pundit, so why is Roy Keane so content to keep settling the same old scores, in his on-stage routine with Roddy Doyle?

Kieran Cunningham

16th May, 2026 - 7 min read

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The reign of ‘El Chapo’ is over but the bodies keep piling up

As the U.S. targets corrupt Mexican officials who aided the imprisoned drug lord’s clan, a bloody civil war rages for control of the Sinaloa cartel, write José de Córdoba and Santiago Pérez, The Wall Street Journal.

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16th May, 2026 - 8 min read

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“Most of my day is spent thinking about digital. That is the future of the organisation”

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic thinks The Irish Times is "only in the foothills" of online subscriber growth. He talks about digital acceleration, print decline, plus the three most important qualities a modern-day editor needs to have.

Alan English

15th May, 2026 - 23 min read

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Dan O’Brien: We’re doing fine. So why is everyone so glum?

Why are voters turning against establishment parties when living standards remain historically high? The latest Eurobarometer poll suggests the answer may lie less in people’s real lives than in the dark mood created by modern media and online discourse.

Dan O'Brien

15th May, 2026 - 5 min read

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How Dundalk’s Farra Marine convinced Infracapital to buy into its offshore dream

Martin Rice started as a deckhand but has now built a high-tech boat business servicing the offshore wind sector. With its new investor on board it plans to grow to 350 people.

Tom Lyons

15th May, 2026 - 4 min read

Michael O’Leary versus the DAA: The battle over Dublin Airport’s future has escalated

Europe’s largest airline says the DAA’s multi-billion euro expansion risks driving traffic, aircraft and investment elsewhere. The DAA denies this claim.

Tom Lyons

15th May, 2026 - 4 min read

“They could blackmail us into giving them everything while they held the plane”

Entrepreneur Barry English has given evidence in his private jet fees row with Shannon-based operator Acass. "It was a litany of excuses. They didn't come within an ass’s roar of what they said they would do," he told the court.

Francesca Comyn

15th May, 2026 - 7 min read

A McKillen Jr company is buying back the Workman’s Club

A company whose sole director is the entrepreneur Paddy McKillen Jr is buying back the well-known Workman’s Club in Dublin after previously losing control of it. The move comes as he fights a bankruptcy petition in relation to another deal.

Tom Lyons

15th May, 2026 - 1 min read

Beijing’s ‘industrial policy of everything’ leaves rest of the world in the dust

Government support encompasses the old, the new, goods and services, micro and macro. Nothing Trump elicits in China will change this., writes Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal.