Drama at the opera: The Cork opera house, the financial controller and the protected disclosures
August 17, 2021 5:40 amOn the bank of the River Lee in the heart of the city lies the Cork Opera House. The only... View Article
Categories for Stories
“I was the 15-year-old smart, creative kid who was an outsider, and Junk Kouture is born out of the ashes of that”
August 17, 2021 5:27 amThere are three things you need to know about Troy Armour. They relate to the person and not the business,... View Article
“Bigger companies and investors are looking at things through the lens of climate risks. More of us need to do the same”
August 16, 2021 5:26 amJohn Reynolds and Thomas Hubert have covered the business response to climate change since the beginnings of The Currency. Chief... View Article
Cash payments, goodwill and earn outs: Inside the $147m sale of Ireland’s largest independent insurance broker
August 16, 2021 4:45 amNine days before last Christmas, one of the biggest sales of an Irish family business in recent years was quietly... View Article
Centre stage: having fallen into disrepair, a high stakes battle has erupted over a deal to buy the City Arts Centre
August 14, 2021 8:32 pmHaving sat dormant for 18 years, a battle has broken out in recent weeks for a stake in the City... View Article
Any given Saturday? Say it quietly if you are from Mayo, don’t say it at all if you are James Horan, but Dublin are there for the taking
August 14, 2021 5:52 amThe late John Morrison was built to take a shoulder charge. When Paul ‘Pillar’ Caffrey, the Dublin football manager in... View Article
Ill winds and ill discipline: Leo Varadkar, the future and the corrosive nature of being in power too long
August 14, 2021 5:29 amAs the scandal of Katherine Zappone’s UN appointment ebbed last week and Mary Robinson scolded him about climate change, it... View Article
Northern lights: How to skip health waiting lists without leaving the island of Ireland
August 14, 2021 5:25 amPart of John Hume’s greatness was his empathy with the people he grew up with in Derry. He gave away... View Article
Overseas crackdown: Airbnb fails in bid to stop export of host data
August 13, 2021 2:39 pmThe Court of Appeal, for reasons including the need to combat international tax fraud and tax evasion, last April ordered Airbnb’s... View Article
“It was fight or flight. I decided to fight. I wanted to be able to say even if we failed, I did my absolute best”
August 13, 2021 5:51 amAaron O’Grady is showing me around his cavernous hub just off the M50 in Ballymount, south Dublin, and it is... View Article
