LIV Golf facing imminent closure as Saudi backers weigh pulling funding
April 16, 2026 7:53 amWhen LIV Golf launched in 2022, it divided the entire sport into two camps. Backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund,... View Article
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Room service – Part 2: How new hotels populate Dublin, and why the market continues to absorb them
April 16, 2026 5:50 amIn March 2024, the Dean Hotel group, once part of Paddy McKillen Jr’s Press Up hospitality empire, changed hands. In... View Article
O’Callaghan hotel succession row plays as a four-star Shakesperean tragedy
April 15, 2026 5:00 pmA tragic family scenario, not unlike King Lear, is how barrister Martin Hayden framed the breakdown in relations between veteran... View Article
Galway ventilation business catches the eye of Sweden’s Lindab Group
April 15, 2026 3:10 pmHusband and wife team Tom and Sandra Varley set up their business in 2014 in Galway. Connaught Ventilation Supplies does... View Article
Conor McGregor settles Proper No. 12 whiskey row
April 15, 2026 1:00 pmIt was listed for an eight-day hearing. But settlement talks began in earnest this Wednesday morning after a judge was... View Article
The Bezos Vs. Musk space race is heating up
April 15, 2026 10:05 amJeff Bezos earlier this year signed into X to post a photo of a tortoise. No explanation. Space industry nerds,... View Article
Room service – Part 1: Why Ireland’s hotel building boom stops at the M50
April 15, 2026 4:37 amOne of Surinder Arora’s first exposures to Irish people was in 1977. He was moonlighting as a wine waiter at... View Article
China’s CALC pushes back in unrepaired engine dispute with Willis Lease Finance
April 15, 2026 1:55 amChinese but Irish-based aircraft leasing firm CALC has pushed back against claims by Willis Lease Finance that it failed to... View Article
U.S. oil blockade is set to boost American exports—and prices at the pump
April 14, 2026 8:11 amPresident Trump is pitching a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as an opportunity for American oil-and-gas exporters. The squeeze... View Article
A licence to look away: Susan O’Keeffe on Larry Goodman, power, and the Beef Tribunal
April 14, 2026 5:00 amWhen I first realised that the blame for the Beef Tribunal was being laid at my door, I waved it... View Article
