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Inside Corum – Part 1: How a French property investor quietly amassed an €800m Irish portfolio

Corum Asset Management was among the first international firms to acquire commercial property in Ireland after the financial crisis. Its executives still see “patches of value” in office and retail deals here.

Thomas Hubert
22nd Jan, 2026 - 10 min read

How this AI-infused warehouse sorts real Louis Vuitton bags from fakes

The RealReal’s Athena system helps validate goods submitted for resale, cutting down the timeline to list them for sale, writes Jennifer Williams, The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
22nd Jan, 2026 - 5 min read

Greenland clash risks undermining America’s place in world economic order

The U.S. has long been a beacon of safety when uncertainty reigns. That is changing, write Justin Lahart and Sam Goldfarb, The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
22nd Jan, 2026 - 4 min read

Fresh bid officially lodged to reignite plans for Dublin’s tallest building

An Coimisiún Pleanála’s 2024 decision to refuse permission for the ambitious 24-storey building was recently quashed by the High Court, paving the way for the new application from Ventaway Limited.
Niall Sargent
21st Jan, 2026 - 2 min read

Fingal County Council refuses McEnaney retention bid for Sword’s Ipas accommodation 

The Department of Justice moved residents out of two buildings at the rear of the Dublin Airport Manor hotel earlier this year after the local authority alerted it to their "unauthorised” use in March 2025.
Niall Sargent
21st Jan, 2026 - 3 min read

Spotting the cashflow gap in healthcare: The founders behind Global Health Capital

Fintech veterans Graham Byrne and David Crimmins have secured €5m in backing from Santiago Capital and are closing a €500,000 seed round. Having started in Ireland, they plan to go to Europe.
Tom Lyons
21st Jan, 2026 - 9 min read

Rogue car traders disqualified: A phoenix firm, a fraud probe, and a Cab judgment later

Trading as Autolines in Co Tipperary, SJK Wholesale Ltd engaged in wilful tax avoidance and bought cars at auction in the UK with money believed by the High Court to be derived from mandate frauds.
Francesca Comyn
21st Jan, 2026 - 5 min read

Senoptica exits examinership, despite misgivings of co-founder

Creditors backed by Steve Gidman's Fortress Technology stepped in to rescue the bio-tech start up with "very valuable" IP. Co-founders Brendan Rice and Steve Comby appeared in court to put their concerns about the proposal on the public record.
Alice Chambers
20th Jan, 2026 - 4 min read

“For at least a thousand years the Book of Kells has profoundly shaped Ireland”

Dion Fanning
20th Dec, 2025

James Joyce considered it the most Irish thing we had. It has been here for a thousand years and endured many dramas but there are many mysteries about the Book of Kells. Victoria Whitworth talks to Dion Fanning about what she has come to believe about the Book of Kells’s creation and why Irish monks might have nothing to do with it.

Top Voices

Byron Fry: Space is becoming financial infrastructure. Is Ireland ready?

For a country that built one global industry out of aircraft that rarely land here, the idea that its next significant leasing business might be in orbit should no longer feel out of this world.
Byron Fry
21st Jan, 2026 - 10 min read

Strategic autonomy to atavistic anatomy? Europe’s drift into geopolitical backwaters

The US no longer sees Europe as a part of the "collective West", but rather a declining vestige of past alliances that are to be replaced by the hegemony of the America First. To date, Europe has had no response.
Constantin Gurdgiev
20th Jan, 2026 - 9 min read

John Looby: Why markets keep ignoring the crashes everyone predicts

Soaring asset prices have revived familiar warnings about debt, bubbles and central bank independence. Yet history shows that acting on well-worn fears can be as futile as building the Maginot Line.
John Looby
19th Jan, 2026 - 3 min read

The Easy name, and the Irish courts: Rewinding the week that was

As Brexit redraws the map, Stelios Haji-Ioannou has found a new courtroom of choice. From forex trading to holiday rentals — and now online fundraising — Ireland has become the frontline in his battle to retain control of the “easy” name.
Ian Kehoe
18th Jan, 2026 - 5 min read

“Hey @grok put bullet holes in her face”: How Grok turned a freedom dream into a dystopian nightmare 

The brainchild of X owner Elon Musk has made the news for stripping women of their clothes following a Hitler scandal mid-last year. Now, whole countries are talking about banning it.
Kate Demolder
17th Jan, 2026 - 6 min read

Dan O’Brien: The return of “might-is-right” is reshaping the world — and Ireland must adapt

As the US and China dominate a "might-is-right" world, Europe’s influence is shrinking. For a small, open economy like Ireland, strategic complacency is no longer an option.
Dan O'Brien
16th Jan, 2026 - 5 min read

Colm McCarthy: Populism, gridlock, and the myth of free roads

Ireland’s aversion to charging motorists has turned congestion into a policy choice. Roads, like water, are scarce — and refusing to price them simply spreads the costs more widely and inefficiently.

Colm McCarthy
15th Jan, 2026 - 6 min read

Streaming solstice and printing presses: Willie O’Reilly on this year’s media trends

The rise of YouTube signals the end of traditional broadcasters’ control over high-quality audio and video production – with the fate of newspapers providing signposts for legacy media.
Willie O'Reilly
14th Jan, 2026 - 4 min read

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