Unfinished business from the Doonbeg golf resort
February 18, 2022 3:42 pmIs Doonbeg unlucky, an 18-hole money pit? Pummelled by Covid-19 closures (the group availed of government subsidies), revenue collapsed at... View Article
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Days after losing one appeal over the Point Village, Dunnes Stores has launched a new legal action
February 18, 2022 1:50 pmDunnes Stores has never made a secret of the fact that, as things stand, it has no desire or intention... View Article
NBI responds: The shareholders, the loans and the profit sharing behind Ireland’s €3bn broadband plan
February 18, 2022 5:14 amAnyone on a drive around the Blessington area straddling counties Wicklow, Dublin and Kildare these days can expect to meet... View Article
“The data shows everyone is moving to Lisbon right now. It is a serious rival to Dublin”
February 18, 2022 4:17 amThe last time Dee Coakley and I spoke, we were cloistered away in a media cubby in Lisbon. Coakley had... View Article
Failure to launch: How the pandemic wiped out the Irish dreams of a global payments company
February 17, 2022 5:10 amLike many new ventures, it started off with a strong hire. Fondy, an online payments company, brought in Philip Traynor... View Article
“How did you hear about CameraMatics?” Mervyn O’Callaghan asks. Now, that is a good question
February 17, 2022 5:01 amThere is a full-size truck cabin in the middle of the head office CameraMatics in Parkwest in west Dublin. It... View Article
Davy’s bond scandal defence: “We struggle to understand the fraud that is alleged”
February 16, 2022 7:11 pmProperty developer Patrick Kearney would have been “much worse off” if he had not sold an Anglo bond to a... View Article
XS Direct announced in January it was winding down its business. Now Beach Point Capital has installed a receiver
February 16, 2022 5:07 pmAt a virtual town hall meeting in early January, staff at XS Direct were briefed that the motor insurance agent... View Article
Moscow and the IFSC: How Russia’s largest private bank built up a $4.3bn bond pile in Dublin
February 16, 2022 5:41 amIn late 2001, the Russian financial services group Alfa Bank sponsored the first performance of Michael Flatley’s show Lord of... View Article
Food for thought: Tara McCarthy on Covid, Brexit and what inflation means for the Irish food industry
February 16, 2022 5:02 amThe figures speak for themselves. In 2021, despite the twin headwinds of Brexit and the pandemic, a record €13.5 billion... View Article
