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The Entrepreneur Experience 2026: Meet the 23 businesses selected for this year’s event

This year’s programme will see 23 Irish start-ups and SMEs from across industries gather in Ballymaloe, Co Cork, with AxisBIC to hone their business skills alongside some of Ireland’s most established entrepreneurs.

Emmet Ryan
14th Oct, 2026 - 17 min read

Chinese cars now dominate Europe’s biggest auto show

Two years ago, nine brands from China were at the event. This time, there were about 20, write Stephen Wilmot and Ryan Felton, The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
13th Oct, 2026 - 4 min read

The costs of the Tinakilly fight

Gerard Lane is owed €3.3m. An expert financial report reveals how that compares to the initial investment and subsequent legal fees in the dispute with hotel co-investor Denis Connolly.
Alice Chambers
13th Oct, 2026 - 5 min read

Irish Times revenue and profit dropped as it paid Veldon golden parachute

Revenues declined slightly at The Irish Times Group from €115.6m to €112.7m. The changeover at the top of the company's executive team came with a multi-hundred-thousand-euro price tag.
Tom Lyons
13th Oct, 2026 - 1 min read

Xi’s superpower ambitions fuel a dangerous debt spiral in China

The Chinese leader is presiding over a surge in indebtedness that is strangling the economy and spilling overseas, writes Brian Spegele, The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
13th Oct, 2026 - 4 min read
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“You’d think it would go the opposite way”: Why industries most exposed to AI are creating more jobs

PwC’s Global Chief AI Officer Joe Atkinson explains why businesses need to start focusing on using AI as a tool for growth rather than just for cost-cutting.
Michael Cogley
13th Oct, 2026 - 8 min read

Munster-based clean-label YOJO targets bubbling energy drinks market

Inspired by the success of VitHit, siblings Molly and Jake Ryan and their friend Tom Murphy are launching a new premium, low-calorie energy drink.

Tom Lyons
13th Oct, 2026 - 3 min read

The “upstart” from Cork still standing after surviving coffee’s worst year since the 1960s

The founder of Velo Coffee, the first B Corp coffee roaster in Ireland, talks about a new plan to supply office coffee, getting things wrong, and why it's so much easier to supply cafés than run them.
Alice Chambers
13th Oct, 2026 - 8 min read

PwC global AI chief Joe Atkinson: “I always say my crystal ball gets cloudier and cloudier”

Michael Cogley
13th Oct, 2026

As companies across the world implement AI, it is clear there are some emerging as early winners. PwC’s most recent AI performance survey has found that three-quarters of the economic gains derived from AI have been generated by just a fifth of businesses. For Joe Atkinson, PwC’s global chief AI officer, it is the companies that are embracing AI for growth – not just efficiency – who are performing best. In a wide-ranging discussion, Atkinson talks about how businesses can communicate the implementation of AI to their teams, why the days of tech jobs and non-tech jobs are at an end, and how more jobs are being created in industries that are facing the most disruption from the breakthrough technology. The Tech Agenda podcast series is sponsored by PwC.

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Ronan Lyons: Ireland tried to stop Dublin growing. Instead, it made the city sprawl

For 50 years, Ireland has tried to hold Dublin back. The result has not been a smaller capital, but a more sprawling one – with homes pushed further from jobs and transport.

Ronan Lyons
13th Oct, 2026 - 7 min read

Colm McCarthy: Ireland’s answer to Doge has been deactivated in all essentials

Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers announced plans for a new oversight taskforce to monitor public spending in Budget 2027. Scrapping DPER might have been more effective.
Colm McCarthy
12th Oct, 2026 - 6 min read

O’Mahony, O’Shea and Munster’s road back: Rewinding the week that was

A new CEO will begin work at Munster Rugby later this month – and Avan Lee has a big challenge on his hands. Talented young players like Charlie O'Shea will help, but they'll need to be part of an organisation better equipped to recover lost ground.
Alan English
11th Oct, 2026 - 5 min read

The red flags at Thomond Park that the new CEO must remove

Munster still has the name, the ground and the history. What it needs now is a functioning pathway, fuller stands and a willingness to confront what has gone wrong.

Brett Igoe
10th Oct, 2026 - 5 min read

Peter O’Mahony: The unbelievable stress of getting both barrels from Joe Schmidt

In an extract from his new autobiography, Peter O’Mahony reflects on the "brainwashing" Ireland players experienced under their relentless head coach – and why those training sessions that annihilated some players made Ireland the force they became.
Peter O'Mahony
10th Oct, 2026 - 7 min read

Budget 2027: Moving incrementally from wealth taxation to wealth accumulation

At a briefing with LHK Group, The Currency brought together economists, investors and financial advisers to examine Budget 2027 and the challenge of turning Ireland’s extraordinary wealth into a more sustainable future.
Tom Lyons
10th Oct, 2026 - 3 min read

Dan O’Brien: To some, a budget surplus is like being in Alice in Wonderland

With imminent elections primed to transform the European political landscape and an Irish economy humming along nicely, hitting the fiscal accelerator was unnecessary. But with debt levels low, Ireland is in a strong position to handle any bond market woes.

Dan O'Brien
9th Oct, 2026 - 4 min read

John Looby: There really is nothing new in finance

The financing of AI infrastructure may be dressed up as a new asset class for a new industrial revolution. But the basic financial trick – turning future income into something investors can buy – is as old as finance itself.
John Looby
8th Oct, 2026 - 3 min read

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