The unstoppable rise of online betting, the Covid recovery and room for tax rises
September 16, 2022 3:11 amOfficials at the Department of Finance have just prepared a paper on excise duty – a type of tax levied... View Article
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Barrister and human rights activist Bill Shipsey in court case with Amnesty International over charity name
September 15, 2022 3:56 pmAmnesty International is suing human rights activist and retired barrister Bill Shipsey to get him to change the name of... View Article
McGrath to plough more funds into restaurant as creditors face haircuts
September 15, 2022 3:13 amThe company behind Brasserie Sixty6, a Dublin 2 restaurant co-owned by celebrity chef Dylan McGrath, has circulated a rescue plan... View Article
What Glenveagh’s interims say about the Irish housing market
September 14, 2022 8:00 pmGlenveagh is a bellwether of the Irish housing system. It was set up by the late Justin Bickle and Stephen... View Article
Man arrested in insider trading probe was trading in shares of Dublin pharma company Open Orphan
September 14, 2022 1:48 pmThe businessman arrested on suspicion of alleged insider trading this week was trading in the shares of Open Orphan, the... View Article
Ikea’s Irish empire – part 2: From furniture stores to sovereign bonds, intercompany debt and tax
September 14, 2022 5:02 amFor 30 years, the Ikea group and its multi-hundred-store global retail network, since separated out under the name Ingka Group,... View Article
Infrastructure expert Marco Chitti on Metrolink, state capacity, and how to do ambitious projects
September 14, 2022 4:53 amThe annoying thing about Ireland’s ropey infrastructure is that we haven’t been slow to fund it. According to a 2017... View Article
HiberGene fallout: Shareholders dispute liquidator appointment at riven medical diagnostics firm
September 13, 2022 7:58 pmTensions remain high at collapsed medical diagnostic firm HiberGene Diagnostics as angry shareholders dispute the validity of last week’s EGM... View Article
An industrial dispute at a Cork pharma giant highlights the rising tensions between employers and workers
September 13, 2022 5:50 amLast month, the US drug giant MSD announced that it was adding 100 new jobs to its Carlow workforce through... View Article
Ikea’s Irish empire – part 1: How Ikea turned Ireland into a €30bn cosy home for retail profits
September 13, 2022 5:03 amThe Ikea store that towers over the M50 motorway on the outskirts of north Dublin – the Republic’s only flagship... View Article
