Lucky draw: How €250m in lottery funding trickles to thousands of non-profits
January 10, 2022 3:29 amThe recent controversy around the lack of lotto jackpot winners has raised a central question: Where is the National Lottery’s... View Article
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Theranos, the Elizabeth Holmes conviction and why Silicon Valley will always be seduced by fantasy
January 8, 2022 4:07 amWhen she was a little girl, Elizabeth Holmes designed a time machine. Given what the world knows now, it may... View Article
As the pandemic shut down car factories, an Irish cement maker ran out of raw materials
January 7, 2022 5:38 pmEcocem uses slag, a residue of steel production, instead of clinker made by heating limestone at extreme temperatures. This reduces... View Article
Revenue secures the maximum penalty for Hynes “nil” tax return
January 7, 2022 5:20 pmHaving previously had bailiffs turn up at the door of his Wexford jewellery shop, businessman Frank Hynes is facing a... View Article
As it finalises its Chapter 11 in Delaware, Mallinckrodt is lining up an Irish examinership
January 7, 2022 5:35 amOn Tuesday, in a federal bankruptcy court in the US state of Delaware, Judge John Dorsey heard the final arguments... View Article
“What we started was kind of a social cause, a movement – but it can’t operate for no money”
January 7, 2022 5:34 amCatch, pull, push, breath. Catch, pull, push, breath. In the mind of 23-year-old Niamh Tallon, these steps repeat themselves as... View Article
Leadership, labour and the future of capitalism: Stephen Kinsella meets Ronan Dunne
January 6, 2022 5:09 amWhat makes a good leader? How should people think about organisations post-Covid? What might happen to the traditional hierarchical organisational... View Article
Requiring additional funding after a difficult number of years, Irish insurer XS Direct is winding down its business
January 6, 2022 4:43 amFounded in 2004 by Chris McCann, a scion of the Fyffes business dynasty, XS Direct specialises in selling motor insurance... View Article
The vulture and the ram: How Cerberus made a 63% return on a distressed Irish debt pile
January 5, 2022 5:27 amOn May 26, 2015, Ulster Bank announced the sale of a debt portfolio through its parent’s bad bank, RBS Capital... View Article
“Economies within an economy”: Grant Thornton’s Michael McAteer on talent, tax and Ireland’s economic trajectory
January 5, 2022 5:01 amThe headcount tells its own story. In June, Grant Thornton employed 1,500 people in Ireland. By the end of December,... View Article
