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Building “a fully net-zero data centre economy”: Renewables, hydrogen and the need for domestic green energy demand

As more and more electricity comes from wind and solar, balancing supply and demand becomes more complex, say Deloitte energy experts with both a global and an Irish focus.
Thomas Hubert
26th Apr, 2024 - 7 min read

Cannot confirm nor deny: Officials coy on records about controversial Israeli military equipment contracts

The Department of Defence is under pressure to halt future contracts with Israeli arms companies as the death toll in Gaza mounts, now at over 34,000, most of them women and children.

Niall Sargent
26th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

“We had everything wrapped up in a matter of weeks. It was a bit of a no-brainer for us”

Tines has tripled its revenues since mid-2022 and is now working with some of the world's biggest companies including Mars, Snowflake and Canva. But, fresh from raising a further $50m, co-founder Eoin Hinchy explains it is only starting.

Tom Lyons
24th Apr, 2024 - 4 min read

From pre-IPO Facebook to SQUID Loyalty: Why Nick Friedrich has put his trust in an Irish start-up

He has built a career driving growth with the world's biggest tech companies. Now Nick Friedrich wants to help drive loyalty technology platform SQUID to 100 million users.

Tom Lyons
24th Apr, 2024 - 8 min read

Receiver of Ronan Group company bids to quash €315,000 vacant site levy

Previous appeals failed to overturn demands for payment from Dublin City Council on the Appian Way site in Ranelagh. Will this one fare any better?
Niall Sargent
23rd Apr, 2024 - 3 min read

Accenture Song’s Richard Carr: “AI is about the reinvention of work and how we behave as human beings”

Accenture Song solves customer problems using a unique range of creative skillsets. Richard Carr, managing director in Ireland, is tasked with leading the business in a time of unprecedented change.

Tom Lyons
23rd Apr, 2024 - 10 min read

A “generational challenge” to attract new entrants: The rationale for the merger of two accountancy bodies

The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland is set to join forces with Chartered Accountants Ireland. The proposed scheme “offers the best pathway forward for the future”, the Commercial Court heard on Monday.
Francesca Comyn
22nd Apr, 2024 - 2 min read

International law firms transformed the Irish market: Here’s where they got their talent

As a period of flux for the Irish legal services market begins to settle, The Currency looks at how the international entrants set about building their teams.
Francesca Comyn
22nd Apr, 2024 - 8 min read

“I don’t think Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams had any appetite for violence at all”

Dion Fanning
30th Mar, 2024

In his book, Stakeknife’s Dirty War, the former H-Block prisoner, Richard O’Rawe, provides the inside story on Freddie Scappaticci. In an interview with Dion Fanning, he explores the many lives of Scappaticci, his own experience as a prisoner during the hunger strikes, and his views on Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams as they pursued peace, viewed as “treachery in a pristine sense” by many republicans.

Top Voices

“It doesn’t exist yet”: EU countries start to wrap heads around AI enforcement

The greatly touted AI Act promises to rein in artificial intelligence but questions swell around just how exactly national authorities will police the tech.
Jonathan Keane
26th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

The out-sized carbon footprint of small-scale peat cutting

New scientific research and updated mapping imagery have allowed the EPA to better calculate emissions from the impact of domestic peat harvesting. The new data puts emissions on a par with aviation.

Niall Sargent
24th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

As the tax debt warehouse is dismantled, there will be a clamour for forgiveness. It should be ignored

When you look at the profile of the remaining debt in the warehouse, the breakdown of the companies that owe it, and the national insolvency trends over a sustained period, it is clear there is no need for write-downs or an amnesty on the €1.65bn in the warehouse.

Ian Kehoe
23rd Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Talent is the lifeblood of recruitment. It’s usually there, it just needs to be discovered

People who spend their lives as a recruiter know how to search under the surface to uncover qualities even the candidate doesn’t know they possess.
Paul McArdle
22nd Apr, 2024 - 4 min read

A familiar tax tiff for Harris at first EU summit: Rewinding the week that was

Separate EU attempts at corporation tax harmonisation and capital markets integration are nothing new. The suggestion that they might be linked is, but it didn’t seem to stick.
Thomas Hubert
21st Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Factions and fatalism: Dion Fanning on the FAI’s search for meaning, a CEO and a manager

Jonathan Hill’s time as FAI CEO will be remembered for a payments controversy and the failure to secure a national manager. But the dysfunction that has long shaped - and derailed - the organisation is deep-rooted and culturally embedded.
Dion Fanning
20th Apr, 2024 - 8 min read

Sam Smyth: Televised racism, DNA and unpaid compensation tower over the death of OJ Simpson

The trial of NFL football hero OJ Simpson was one of biggest stories from America in the past 30 years. His death last week leaves many dark areas around the crimes he was never found guilty of having committed.
Sam Smyth
20th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Energy efficiency saving millions but real reward of emissions fall slow to fruit

New data points to momentum in reducing public sector energy emissions, but fossil fuel use is still high. Private firms face similar challenges as efficiency gains come slow. Will progress come too late?
Niall Sargent
19th Apr, 2024 - 6 min read

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