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Under new ownership, VMware discards its $35bn green jersey

The cloud technology firm, now part of the Broadcom group, has moved intellectual property rights – and taxable income – from Ireland to the US.
Thomas Hubert
12th May, 2025 - 3 min read

Farrier & Draper cocktail bar and restaurant wound up over Revenue debts

Three companies linked to well-known publican Frank Gleeson have been wound up by the High Court over Revenue debts of over €1.8 million.
Francesca Comyn
12th May, 2025 - 2 min read

Eamon Waters sets sights on solar farm at former landfill in Kildare

The Meath businessman has been diversifying his portfolio with renewable gas, recycling and circular economy projects since selling his Beauparc waste empire in 2021.

Niall Sargent
12th May, 2025 - 2 min read

Shifting capitals: Dublin, London and the post-Brexit battle for investment

International law firm Hogan Lovells set up in Ireland in the wake of Brexit. Partner Eimear O'Brien speaks of the continued stream of firms choosing Ireland for European access.
Michael Cogley
12th May, 2025 - 5 min read

Andrea Mara: “Rich people doing bad things is fun to read” 

In her new thriller, It Should Have Been You, Andrea Mara unfurls the meeting point of technology, loneliness and the taboo all new mothers face.

Kate Demolder
10th May, 2025 - 7 min read

“One of the reasons history on this island is so complex is that it always ends in a score draw”

There is a difference between the history and the stories we tell ourselves. Historian Mike Cronin talks to Dion Fanning about how altering the stories will take generations, and being an English academic writing on Irish history.

Dion Fanning
10th May, 2025 - 6 min read

Revenue’s hand left largely unchanged in Getty foreign royalties row

Revenue's notice of appeal in the Getty case was described by the Tax Appeal Commission as “vague, unnecessarily repetitious, and/or not reflective of a point of law capable of forming a question for the High Court”.
Francesca Comyn
9th May, 2025 - 4 min read

Jeff Leo to be cross-examined in contentious Wenning case alleging multi-million fraud

Wealthy American investor Mary Wenning is claiming in the High Court that “very large sums of money” she believed her company was investing in Ireland have gone missing. This is denied by Jeff Leo, who will now be questioned in court on the matter.
Tom Lyons
9th May, 2025 - 5 min read

“These people are looking across a field and saying that family killed my great, great uncle, or whatever it may be. You can’t pull the poison out of that”

Dion Fanning
10th May, 2025

Mike Cronin and Mark Duncan’s new book Revolutionary Times looks at the revolutionary period in Ireland. In this podcast he talks to Dion Fanning about the stories we tell ourselves, the problem with reunification and why Irish history remains such a hot topic to debate.

Top Voices

Paul McArdle: I applied for a job through an AI agent, then I asked her out. Here is what happened

We will all interact with conversational AI sooner rather than later on both sides of the recruitment process, but bots still miss context and the ability to assess soft skills.
Paul McArdle
12th May, 2025 - 6 min read

Power, profit and the people behind the game: Rewinding the week that was

As Ireland’s sporting landscape grows more complex, the figures shaping its future — from accountants and lawyers to former athletes and administrators — reveal a sector dealing with governance, ethics and the human cost of high performance.

Ian Kehoe
11th May, 2025 - 5 min read

Leinster’s European conundrum: High investment, low return

Despite elite resources, world-class coaching, and a production line of international talent, Leinster Rugby’s repeated failures in Europe’s biggest competition reveal uncomfortable truths.
Brett Igoe
10th May, 2025 - 6 min read

Stuart Fitzgerald: Amid global turbulence, focus where the money is

Despite a drop in consumer confidence, the domestic economic indicators in the latest Fitzgerald Power market pulse report are trending positive. It appears that policy makers are, at last, listening to the SME sector.
Stuart FitzGerald
9th May, 2025 - 4 min read

Ronan McGovern: How regulating AI too early risks freezing the EU in the past

European policy on artificial intelligence is preemptive, limiting entrepreneurs’ access to the latest technology. Sometimes it’s best to wait just a little and see how society responds to innovation.
Ronan McGovern
8th May, 2025 - 5 min read

John Looby: Why Trump has trashed hopes of Irish unity

Most crucially for Europe and the UK, the US retreat from NATO effectively abandons them to the menace of Russia. And consequently, like much else, Trump has effectively trashed the hopes of those favouring Irish unity.

John Looby
7th May, 2025 - 3 min read

Ireland’s prosperity has always ridden global waves. Now the tide may be turning

From 18th-century linen to 21st-century tech, Ireland has thrived by aligning with global economic hegemons — first sterling, then the dollar. But as the US rethinks its global role, the island’s open economy may face its greatest test yet.

Ronan Lyons
6th May, 2025 - 7 min read

A gambit that exposed a deeper policy vacuum: Rewinding the week that was

The reversal of Brendan McDonagh’s role as housing tsar lays bare the dysfunction at the heart of Ireland’s political response to its housing emergency.

Ian Kehoe
4th May, 2025 - 4 min read

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