How Denis O’Brien lost control of Digicel, his trophy asset
March 1, 2023 5:45 amSince 2019, Denis O’Brien’s Digicel strategy has been to play for time and hope something turns up. Twice, Digicel, O’Brien’s... View Article
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The Cork-based company trying to clean up the opaque world of carbon offsets
March 1, 2023 5:04 amAs a student of forestry three decades ago, Enda Keane remembers a lecturer standing in the middle of a forest... View Article
€12.4m judgement the latest addition to duo’s checkered business history
March 1, 2023 3:56 amThe High Court has granted relief to liquidators seeking €12.4 million from the directors of a Dublin transport company who... View Article
Tommie Gorman: The day Rishi Sunak said ‘No more’
February 28, 2023 9:00 amSpare a thought for Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. Since the Northern Ireland Assembly elections in May 2022, he and the DUP... View Article
Yields and cost: Why the window of opportunity to harness global savings to build apartments has closed
February 28, 2023 5:43 amIn a column in January, I compared the current peak in housing construction to the rate of construction in the... View Article
QuinnBet is moving its headquarters to Gibraltar. Why is it doing it, and what does it mean?
February 28, 2023 5:14 amBack in 2018, shortly after QuinnBet was established, the industrialist Sean Quinn Sr was upbeat about its prospects: “While we... View Article
Waters brothers take over Energia’s €50m Dublin bioenergy plant
February 27, 2023 5:12 pmThe family office of former Beauparc owner Eamon Waters has formally taken over and refinanced Huntstown Bioenergy Ltd, the subsidiary... View Article
A patent mess: inventor alleges UCD and entrepreneur conspired against him on nanobubble technology
February 27, 2023 3:28 pmA UCD professor and chemical engineer is suing the Dublin university claiming he is being squeezed out of plans to... View Article
“The answer to the financial crisis was the CFO. But post the pandemic the Chief People Officer has come to the fore”
February 27, 2023 5:46 amRobert Mac Giolla Phádraig remembers founding Talent Summit back in 2011, when unemployment surged to more than 10 per cent... View Article
Paula Rowan wants to build the Jimmy Choo of luxury gloves. This is her plan to make it happen
February 27, 2023 5:00 amPaula Rowan’s leather glove designs have been worn to the Golden Globes, the Oscars, and the Met Gala. They’ve been... View Article
