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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.

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.

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.

Law, loss, and leadership: The story of Andrew Tzialli’s cross-border career

Andrew Tzialli, the son of two refugees, does not fit the mould of a typical British lawyer. Now the head of Irish law firm Philip Lee's London outpost, he speaks about his career-defining work and the advancement of Dublin post-Brexit.

“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.

€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.

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.

“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.

Top Voices

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.

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

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.