Inside the Barchester deal: How Irish billionaires tapped US appetite for UK care homes
October 28, 2025 5:12 pmIn the early 1990s, British entrepreneur Mike Parsons was dismayed when he went out to find quality care for his... View Article
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Stéphane Fund’s Trasna is going public in a £150m reverse takeover deal
October 28, 2025 11:13 amTrasna, an Irish-headquartered tech company founded by Frenchman Stéphane Fund, is being acquired in a £150 million (€171.24 million) reverse... View Article
Presidio acquires John Purdy’s Ergo in €100m deal
October 28, 2025 8:30 amPresidio, a global digital services and solutions provider, is acquiring a controlling position in Ergo, the Irish-owned IT services company.... View Article
Credit checks, rate caps, and refunds: How London and Brussels plan to tame buy now, pay later “wild west”
October 28, 2025 5:52 amWhen UK regulators set about putting some rules on consumer credit back in the 1970s, the realm of interest-free credit... View Article
Why a Galway coach firm missed out on a €1m Vat refund
October 28, 2025 5:50 amThe opening of the M6 motorway from Kinnegad to Galway in 2009 was the impetus for GoBus, the first non-stop... View Article
For sale: The revival of iconic Battersea, once in Irish hands, is a case of what might have been
October 27, 2025 5:10 amIn 1929, the architect responsible for Britain’s historic red telephone boxes, Giles Gilbert Scott, joined a project to develop a... View Article
“We were scared for people who were putting their heads above the parapet”
October 25, 2025 5:43 amIn October 2015, the Abbey Theatre announced its Waking the Nation season for the following year which would “interrogate” the... View Article
Inside Irish rugby’s rise — and its struggle to stay on top
October 25, 2025 5:17 amWhen Brendan Fanning’s name pops up on your phone, you know you’re in for an interesting conversation. So when he... View Article
Aurivo joins slew of High Court actions against Creeslough blast site owners
October 24, 2025 5:17 pmAurivo, the farmers’ co-operative operating across the north-west, has issued High Court proceedings against the owners of the Creeslough site... View Article
“Would I do it all again? Probably”: Tommy Kelly on buying Knight Frank and the evolving property market
October 24, 2025 4:07 pmTommy Kelly, the founder of e-commerce giant ESW and owner of Ireland’s largest residential estate agent Sherry FitzGerald, has spoken... View Article
