Voyages around Alex Ferguson: Glasgow, Sligo and sport’s timeless connections
August 21, 2021 5:33 amEvery time Manchester United are mentioned or reference is made to Sir Alex Ferguson, I think of the journalist Gerald Barry.... View Article
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John Simpson, the BBC and the doctor who fled the Taliban and made a life in Ireland
August 21, 2021 5:08 amThe Bakhshi family celebrated their redemption as Afghani refugees in Dublin last week as the latest horror stories were relayed... View Article
Unplugged: How live entertainment was forgotten in the easing of pandemic restrictions
August 21, 2021 5:05 amCamille O’Sullivan made her way to the stage, a blend of nerves and excitement. It was the first time the... View Article
Amateur hour: How JP McManus’s money turned Limerick into the GAA’s new superpower
August 21, 2021 4:54 amThis was what JP McManus set out in letters to every county board in 2018, when explaining why he had... View Article
One of Ireland’s largest regional retailers is tackling Mike Ashley over disputed rents
August 20, 2021 9:54 amThe Caulfield McCarthy Group is one of Ireland’s largest, and most successful, regional retailers. The business controls three Supervalu supermarkets... View Article
Georgetown comes to Dublin: A mutant virus can help cure some cancers, and an Irish court must decide who invented it
August 20, 2021 4:55 amIt can take years between a medical discovery in a research lab and the launch of a safe, approved drug... View Article
Trading Irish secrets: The inside story of Susquehanna, Citadel and the €47m Dublin court action
August 20, 2021 4:34 amThe numbers speak for themselves, and they say quite a lot. In 2019, the Dublin outpost of Susquehanna International Group,... View Article
All I want for Christmas is a trademark: transatlantic battle for Black Irish name
August 19, 2021 11:43 amBlack Irish, the new Mariah Carey-branded cream liqueur, is fighting a trademark battle with a group of Irish entrepreneurs over... View Article
We still don’t know who will buy Ulster Bank’s non-performing loans. Cerberus’s woes might explain why
August 19, 2021 5:51 amAs 2020 accounts trickle in for the Irish subsidiaries of US vulture fund Cerberus, a pattern is emerging. After Covid-19... View Article
“I’m a self-employed single mother. I was trying to save my business while homeschooling my twin boys”
August 19, 2021 5:05 amWeddings returning to pre-Covid-19 normality is not a priority for many, but Ciara Crossan is just as excited, if not... View Article
