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Retailers fail in bid to cross-examine top health official on tobacco licensing

The Convenience Stores & Newsagents Association is challenging the Minister for Health's new tobacco licence fees, claiming that "exorbitant figures were simply plucked out of the air and are inherently arbitrary”.

Another $30m write-off to close Glanbia’s Slimfast chapter

The Kilkenny-headquartered group has completed its exit from its largest-ever acquisition. The exact value lost in this weight-loss adventure may never be fully known.

Wind turbine

High Court deems wind turbine quieter than “a washing machine” as judicial review quashed

In a High Court judgement, Justice Richard Humphreys found that low-level noise should not be “the sort of impact that public policy should accept as precluding the grant of permission” in a wind farm case.

“Picking a fight with average”: How Lisa Clarke built Rowdy Studio

Made redundant during the recession, Lisa Clarke founded her own branding agency in London - and built it into an award-winning studio now expanding into Ireland.

M6 deal post-mortem: Valuing and refinancing a motorway

A series of transactions initiated two years ago saw the Galway toll road change owners and debt providers. Who are its new backers, and how much did they invest?

Family-owned equipment distributor acquired by Japanese multinational Komatsu

McHale Plant Sales Ltd has been the Irish distributor of Komatsu equipment for 30 years.

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.

Quanta Capital-linked fund turns to US courts for discovery in Irish legal battle with Relm

Goldstein Property Icav, whose investments are managed by Mel Sutcliffe’s Quanta Capital, is seeking documents and deposition from Relm’s backers Avenue Capital in New York. Quanta also claims documents were improperly removed from its office.

Top Voices

When the referee isn’t in charge: The crisis at rugby’s core

Tadhg Beirne’s rescinded red card wasn’t just a mistake — it was a symptom of a deeper problem. Referees are no longer judging the game; they’re taking instructions from invisible voices.

Ireland is getting an AI Office, but what should its true role be?

The long-mooted AI Office was namechecked in last month’s budget. Now indigenous businesses want to see meat on the bones and understand how it will work in practice.

Reflections on The Entrepreneur Experience 2025: From breezy elevator pitches to brutal honesty

It was exhausting but also energising: emerging entrepreneurs laid themselves bare and business veterans supporting them talked about the many ways in which they had screwed up before finding success.

There’s a bubble in all these fearful musings and public-sector warnings about a tech stock bubble

Predicting the direction of stock markets has arguably never been more challenging. All we can be confident about right now is that there will be a correction – eventually.

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.

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.

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.

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.