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Reckless trading claims made against the directors of The Green Hen

The restaurant collapsed the week before Christmas with large tax debts. Soon after the rest of Frank Gleeson's entertainment group toppled. Now he is fighting disqualification proceedings for alleged reckless trading.
Francesca Comyn
14th Jul, 2025 - 3 min read

“Considerable costs” not included in €900,000 overspend on troubled IT project at RTÉ

Serious project delays meant the licence for the broadcaster's channel management system, which was to be replaced, had to be extended for three years. Details were not included in a report to its parent department.
Niall Sargent
14th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

Trends, themes and tariffs: What the latest Renatus report reveals about Irish M&A activity

Despite global uncertainty and a pullback in private equity, Ireland posted its strongest first-half deal volume since 2021. Financial services consolidation, SME succession, and inbound interest from the UK and US drove M&A activity.
Ian Kehoe
14th Jul, 2025 - 5 min read

Lions tour or last rites? The make-or-break moment for Australian rugby

As the Lions tour looms large, the question isn't just whether the Wallabies can win—but whether the sport can survive in Australia. The Currency’s coverage of the British & Irish Lions is supported by Bespoke Estate Agents.

Brett Igoe
13th Jul, 2025 - 5 min read

Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland appoints new chair as pre-tax profits rise by over a third to €12.8m

Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland's income has broken through the €60m mark for the first time. Its chief executive Gerard Casey talks about growth, opening a branch in Germany, and Ireland staying aligned with its key trading partners.

Tom Lyons
13th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

“The nightclub owner called and said ‘You’ll never believe it. Rudolf Nureyev is in the club’”

Eamon Carr has lived many lives. The co-founder of Horslips went on to lead a life in journalism. He talks to Dion Fanning about being an accidental interviewer and how a meeting with Paul Gascoigne led to an interview with the great Nureyev.

Dion Fanning
12th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

Barne row: A couple “steamrolled” by litigation and a €50,000 “luck penny”

Anna Thomson-Moore has given evidence of borrowing to fund the litigation and how, with two young kids in a small community with press focus, the Coolmore proceedings have felt like an "onslaught".
Francesca Comyn
11th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

McKillen Jr fights to hold onto control of Grafter

Paddy McKillen Jr sued the receivers appointed to the Star Bar on Baggot Street on Thursday. Now he is suing them in relation to three more companies related to serviced office business Grafter.
Tom Lyons
11th Jul, 2025 - 3 min read

“They didn’t like a lad who was writing about music asking for Jack Charlton’s number because I was walking in on their pitch.”

Dion Fanning
12th Jul, 2025

In Pure Gold, Eamon Carr details the extraordinary encounters and the background stories that led to his weekly interviews in the Evening Herald. As a co-founder of the seminal Irish band Horslips, Carr has terms of reference not available to all. He tells Dion Fanning about the secret to making it as an interviewer.

Top Voices

Flight plan for growth: Part four – How to keep Ireland’s edge in aircraft leasing

Aircraft leasing is one of Ireland’s greatest economic success stories, but global competition is heating up. To stay ahead, policymakers must double down on what works.

Joe Gill
15th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

Candidate sentiment survey: Part one — expectations, remote working, and the balance of power

Some 1,796 candidates—from junior management to “C” suite level—completed The Panel's Candidate Sentiment Survey. In part one of the findings, we look at hybrid working future expectations and the shifting balance of power.
Paul McArdle
14th Jul, 2025 - 6 min read

Company failures, personal consequences: Rewinding the week that was

When directors abuse the trust placed in them, the fallout can be devastating—not just for creditors, employees, or the taxman, but for the public at large.

Ian Kehoe
13th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

Paul Flynn: I shouldn’t say this, but I have a soft spot for Meath. This is why

Paul Flynn admits something no one expected — a soft spot for Meath, shaped by friendship, legacy, and a changing GAA landscape.

Paul Flynn
12th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

Two months on, the Spanish blackout casts a long shadow on a record of growth and integration

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was proving that socialism could work in Spain, but then the lights went out. Now, for the first time since he became prime minister in June 2018, he’s looking vulnerable.
Joe Haslam
12th Jul, 2025 - 14 min read

Ireland’s budget blind spots: Capital commitments and the cost of abandoning neutrality

Warnings about unsustainable spending have gone unheeded as government promises mount, from regional wish lists to defence upgrades. Neutrality has quietly delivered one of Ireland’s greatest fiscal dividends, and abandoning it could cost more than any infrastructure project ever has.

Colm McCarthy
11th Jul, 2025 - 6 min read

Is there a monetary tsar in the White House?

The United States is now in the unprecedented position of being the issuer of an unanchored global reserve currency. However reluctantly, the rest of the world is now in the unenviable position of being the user of the unanchored US dollar.
John Looby
10th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

Haunted by the Celtic Tiger: How old myths still shape Ireland’s housing crisis

To tackle a national emergency – a housing deficit of 300,000 homes and growing each year – we need to pay less attention to national myths and more attention to good policymaking.
Ronan Lyons
9th Jul, 2025 - 6 min read

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