Top Stories

Data centre power demand hits 1,000MW blackout risk safety threshold

EirGrid warns this is the point where the grid cannot support the shock of a major drop in data centre demand as they disconnect from the grid when faults occur. New rules are coming but will take time to bed in.

Why Quintas invested €15.6m in an Irish early years facilities provider

Quintas Capital’s managed equity platform has now invested over €31 million in just two deals. Its investment in Zenith Childcare will support the group growing up to 20 facilities.

A $20m question lingers over Irish lessors in the bankruptcy of AirBaltic

The low-cost airline has been propped up by subsidies and been battered by fuel costs stemming from Middle East crises. Now it must renegotiate contracts with Irish-based lessors.

U.K. prime minister Burnham pitches an unapologetically socialist makeover

New leader wants to break with recent British political history, but first must win an election, writes Max Colchester, The Wall Street Journal.

Revenue, lawsuits and corporation tax: What new documents reveal about Pornhub’s Irish operation

Five Pornhub-related companies have filed another set of company accounts this year, the second in four months.

Maurice Regan – Part 1: “The mistake John Magnier made was – he should have done his research on who I was.”

Until recently, few people outside business circles had heard of Maurice Regan. Then he wrested the historic Barne Estate from John Magnier.

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“Resilience is not just an IT issue. Resilience is a business issue” 

PwC’s Moira Cronin and non-executive director Rachel Higham argue that companies need to think beyond business continuity and compliance, identifying the critical services, people, technology and suppliers that must keep operating when a major disruption hits.

Smiles Dental Group is being acquired by a British family-owned dental group

The price being paid for the 20-strong chain of dental practices is not known. But its proposed new owner is an experienced trade buyer.

Top Voices

Dan O’Brien: The Government has spent years raising the tax burden. Now it should start cutting it

The public is paying more tax, the state is spending more money and businesses are increasingly frustrated. Budget 2027 should be about broadening the tax base and lowering rates.

Are there early warning signs of another tech “correction” heading into Budget week?

As multinationals trim workforces and IDA and Enterprise Ireland early warning reports increase, is a structural shift happening in plain sight? And what would it mean for our tax take and future budgets?

“We do see risks for workers’ protection”: MEPs prepare a fight back against McGrath’s EU Inc

Commissioner Michael McGrath is championing EU Inc, a new framework to help companies scale, but MEPs have reservations about what it will mean for worker representation.

What the Navy, a Tipperary farm, and losing a child taught Marie Gleeson about leadership

The executive coach and former naval officer argues that leadership is about far more than rank or authority – and that people often underestimate the effect their behaviour has on those around them.

If 12.5% is not enough, what is Ireland’s advantage? Rewinding the week that was

PwC tax policy lead Peter Reilly argues that Ireland needs to use its record corporation tax receipts to invest in the infrastructure, innovation, and tax reforms needed to compete for the next generation of investment.

Barry Cummins: Ireland has 51 unidentified bodies. There may be a way to name them

Current Irish laws don’t go far enough to assist gardaí and scientists in identifying unnamed people who lie in graves across the country but recent forensic breakthroughs could change this, writes Barry Cummins.

More than a game: Has the FAI and Government failed the test on Israel?

From the Government's bold move in 1999 to halt a Euro qualifier against Yugoslavia to today’s position to go ahead and play Israel, has Ireland traded moral leadership for a fixture behind closed doors?

The world economy is holding up. France is where the trouble may start 

Ireland has emerged from another global economic shock in relatively good shape, with its relationship with the US looking secure and the energy hit proving manageable. But France could become the big economic risk of 2027.