Top Stories

€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

Uncertainty over airport fuel pipeline project as Eamon Waters-backed company folds

Aeropipeline Limited, the developer behind the ambitious plans to build a fuel pipeline from Dublin Port’s oil terminal to Dublin Airport has now applied for voluntary strike-off.
Niall Sargent
4th Nov, 2025 - 3 min read

After prison, DJ Carey “will have to face life and it will probably be a tough life for him”

The former Kilkenny hurler was jailed for five and a half years for scamming people out of money to pay for cancer treatment he did not need.
Francesca Comyn
3rd Nov, 2025 - 2 min read

Not just funding: What the fastest-growing social housing bodies want to solve the crisis

Approved housing bodies are providing half of Ireland’s new social and affordable homes. Ahead of the Government’s new housing plan, the CEOs from three of the largest share their expectations.
Thomas Hubert
3rd Nov, 2025 - 16 min read

“Collective crime”: Ireland listed in UN report as complicit in Gaza genocide

The UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine singles out Ireland for trade with Israel in dual-use goods and allowing Shannon Airport to be used by US state officials, Israel's key military and political ally.
Niall Sargent
3rd Nov, 2025 - 4 min read

“Honestly, I don’t think DJ Carey even knows exactly how much money he took”

Eimear Ní Bhraonáin’s new book lays out the curiosities and patterns in the disgraced hurling star’s character long before he embarked on a life of deception, and dissects the playbook he tailored to each victim in disturbing detail.
Dion Fanning
1st Nov, 2025 - 5 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

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

Ronan McGovern: Would we be better off without this AI bubble?

Bubbles create winners and losers, and artificial intelligence has yet to reveal who they will be. This means it is risky to be involved – but also risky not to be.
Ronan McGovern
29th Oct, 2025 - 4 min read

Arrival reimagined: How Irish start-up Wayleadr created a new category in parking 

From driving in circles around Dublin to powering seamless arrivals for Google and Amazon, Garret Flower’s start-up is building the invisible infrastructure that will define how people move through cities, between home and office, in an autonomous future.

Andrea Linehan
28th Oct, 2025 - 5 min read

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