Top Stories

Chief commercial officer’s resignation adds to leadership upheaval at Port of Cork

Conor Mowlds is the second high-profile resignation from the State port in 18 months. FOI documents shed new light on former CEO Eoin McGettigan’s resignation last year. Meanwhile, board member Philip Smith died on Sunday.
Alice Chambers
10th Jul, 2025 - 6 min read

New venture RYSE-ing: How two brothers-in-law created Europe’s first caffeinated chocolate bar

Serial food entrepreneur Tom Gannon has just invested in a new bar business called RYSE. Founded by marketing expert Ian O’Rourke and Pitt Bros co-founder David Stone it is targeting active 25 to 44-year-olds.
Tom Lyons
10th Jul, 2025 - 3 min read
John Magnier

The Magnier map: How much land does the bloodstock dynasty really own in Tipp?

As John Magnier battles construction magnate Maurice Regan over the 751-acre Barne Estate, land registry records and planning files draw the first map of almost 11,000ac amassed in the Golden Vale by the family behind Coolmore.
Niall Sargent
10th Jul, 2025 - 7 min read

Confident it can “fully offset tariffs”, Bausch + Lomb ploughs $765m into Irish subsidiary

How should a pharma multinational respond to the uncertainty unleashed by the Trump administration? Invest more in Ireland, the contact-lens and eye-drop giant appears to have decided.
Thomas Hubert
9th Jul, 2025 - 3 min read

Regan-backed Stolensky Ltd made loan to company in control of Barne Estate

The Barne Estate is at the centre of an ongoing legal battle between John Magnier and its historic owners. The billionaire has questioned how the family who are the beneficial owners of the estate have been able to fund their defence. This is how.
Tom Lyons
9th Jul, 2025 - 2 min read

“I sell all over the world”: The Irish forging art careers in the Middle East

From Dublin to Dubai – part 2: Amid a depressed contemporary art market, Gulf states are competing to become a new cultural hub. Irish curators and artists are navigating the opportunities and tensions between creativity, business, and censorship.
Hannah McCarthy
9th Jul, 2025 - 9 min read

“Inflated” costs drove Keywords Studios into the red after its €2.5bn buyout

Accounts filed in the UK show the Irish games company’s revenue grew to near €750m in 2024 but it swung to a notable loss as private-equity firm EQT closed its acquisition.
Jonathan Keane
9th Jul, 2025 - 3 min read

A “monumental error of judgement”: Liquidator puts his “hands up” over €800,000 claim

Liquidator David Kennedy has agreed to a suite of freezing orders blocking him from reducing his assets below €800,000 amid claims of misappropriating funds in the winding-up of two companies on a voluntary basis.
Francesca Comyn
8th Jul, 2025 - 2 min read

“The Sinn Fein leadership had this notion that all of the problems were to do with British guile: once Britain leaves the Ulster Unionists will happily come into United Ireland, which was completely removed from the truth.”

Dion Fanning
28th Jun, 2025

Historian Cormac Moore’s new book looks at the failure of the Boundary Commission one hundred years on. He talks to Dion Fanning about the mistakes made by the Treaty negotiators, their failure to understand unionism and the errors of Eoin MacNeill.

Top Voices

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

Flight plan for growth: Part three – Strategically expand aviation MRO capability on the island of Ireland

In 2023, the maintenance, repair and overhaul market globally was valued at $25 billion and is growing at a compound annual growth rate of three to five per cent. Here is a plan for how Ireland can boost its presence in this area.
Joe Gill
8th Jul, 2025 - 3 min read

Paul McArdle: How to navigate the culture map of your business

The power of your communication is not necessarily what you say, it is what your colleague hears. In a multicultural business, this gap can widen.
Paul McArdle
7th Jul, 2025 - 5 min read

Multinational tax news looks too good to be true – yet it is: Rewinding the week that was

US firms show no sign of retreating from Ireland as Washington makes the temporary tax advantages introduced by Trump in 2017 permanent. Corporation tax is now set for another record year.
Thomas Hubert
6th Jul, 2025 - 5 min read

Dion Fanning: Kneecap, the BBC and the battle over who gets to speak

The backlash against Glastonbury performers Bob Vylan and Kneecap has reignited old battles over media bias, public speech, and the BBC’s uneasy role in navigating culture, politics and power.

Dion Fanning
5th Jul, 2025 - 6 min read

Ian Kehoe: Examinership, Scarp, and restructuring in an uncertain world

Powerscourt Distillery may yet pull through, as might Fade Street Social and Captain Americas, but they’re now part of a growing cohort navigating the path between collapse and survival.

Ian Kehoe
4th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

Byron Fry: Ireland’s Cern membership must turn scientific collaboration into economic growth

Cern membership should not be seen as a final milestone but rather as a launchpad to help deliver long-term economic advantage. Existing members have already shown the way.
Byron Fry
3rd Jul, 2025 - 5 min read

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