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Crazy rich returns lure cabbies and even kids to red-hot Asian markets

Global success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan stokes market fever, write Jiyoung Sohn in Seoul, Joyu Wang in Taipei and Junko Fukutome in Tokyo, The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
19th Jun, 2026 - 7 min read

Warsh overhauls how the Fed talks and keeps markets guessing on rates

In debut as chairman, Kevin Warsh stripped away the central bank’s policy hints and committed to bringing inflation down—but wouldn’t say what that will take, writes Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
18th Jun, 2026 - 4 min read

The empire behind the fall: Mapping Cathal O’Connor’s property interests

Cathal O’Connor has weeks to put his business affairs in order before starting a custodial sentence for the violent assault of three teens. The Currency examines the scale of the property network, multi-million euro assets, and projects in the pipeline.
Niall Sargent
18th Jun, 2026 - 10 min read

Just who is behind the Galway plant-hire business that owes €106m to Revenue?

LPS International Plant Limited, a Co Galway plant-hire business, owes a staggering €106m to Revenue in undeclared Vat, interest and penalties, and is now in liquidation. How did it get here?
Jonathan Keane
17th Jun, 2026 - 2 min read

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund is buying a stake in the Greenlink interconnector

Mubadala is pumping $200 million into a joint venture with existing investors to take control of the electricity cable connecting Ireland to the UK.
Jonathan Keane
17th Jun, 2026 - 2 min read

Cigars, a canceled lacrosse season and the scandal rocking a Massachusetts town

A graduation photo ended Ipswich’s playoff run, sparking outrage, confrontations and a ‘CSI-level investigation, writes Scott Calvert, The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
17th Jun, 2026 - 4 min read

The legal travails of Aughinish Alumina’s problematic owners

Rusal and its sanctioned shareholder Oleg Deripaska are no strangers to courtrooms in several countries, from Jersey to Qatar and Russia to Australia.
Jonathan Keane
17th Jun, 2026 - 4 min read

From a “terrible idea” to a €200m business: Nick Keegan on the rise of Mail Metrics

Mail Metrics is one of Ireland's fastest-growing companies. CEO Nick Keegan speaks about how it turned from a summertime project into an international business.
Michael Cogley
17th Jun, 2026 - 8 min read

“One of the things I think is very interesting is that our national flag is the most anti-nativist flag you could think of.”

Ian Kehoe
30th May, 2026

What next for Sinn Féin? Since the by-election in Dublin Central and Galway West, the party has been scrutinised. Where does it stand on immigration? Is it moving away from the other left wing parties? Eoin Ó Broin talks to Dion Fanning and makes a case for the progressives.

Top Voices

Flutter was primed to thrive in the US, so why has its share price plummeted

The Paddy Power and Betfair owner was well placed to excel as the US opened up to sports betting, but the emergence of prediction markets like Kalshi have slowed its growth while tax and policy changes elsewhere have also weighed it down.
Michael Cogley
18th Jun, 2026 - 6 min read

John Looby: We need to talk about money

Money will always fascinate. Much of human drama – for good or ill – is driven by it. The seeking of it, the losing of it, the glorying of it and the despising of it.
John Looby
17th Jun, 2026 - 3 min read

Goldhawk bites the dust: How The Phoenix went from must-read to surviving on past glories

The magazine that could once genuinely claim to have made life uncomfortable for people in high places had lost its way in recent years. The pity is that it now looks too late for someone with the right stuff to step in and revive it.
Alan English
16th Jun, 2026 - 7 min read

More family homes than families: Why one tenure can no longer house Ireland

Smaller households, longer lives and changing family patterns are transforming housing demand. Yet Ireland remains wedded to a model designed for a country that no longer exists.
Ronan Lyons
16th Jun, 2026 - 8 min read

Candidate sentiment survey: Part one – AI and the workplace

More than 1,300 candidates, from junior management to C-suite level, completed The Panel's Candidate Sentiment Survey. In part one of the findings, we examine the implications of AI on the workplace.
Paul McArdle
15th Jun, 2026 - 5 min read

Graham Platner shows America that the left-of-centre cannot hold either

Democrats appear ready to get behind a candidate who could "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody" without losing any voters.
Siobhán Brett
14th Jun, 2026 - 6 min read

From knocking on doors to a €6.6bn bid for DCC: Rewinding the week that was

Henry Kravis co-founded KKR with little more than an idea and $120,000 in capital. Fifty years later, the firm is pursuing one of Ireland's most successful public companies in a takeover that would unite two businesses born in 1976.
Tom Lyons
14th Jun, 2026 - 4 min read

Breffni Park told me my Dublin career was over — now it may reveal this team’s truth too

Away from television cameras and big-match hype, Dublin's players will be left with a simple question this weekend: how badly do they still want it?

Paul Flynn
13th Jun, 2026 - 5 min read

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