Rewinding 2020: 20 of the year’s most-read stories from the vaults of The Currency
December 24, 2020 5:15 amStatistics can often be deceiving and can be skewed by little things. For example, we sent a tweet in November... View Article
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Oiling a deal: DCC swoops on Campus Oil as Stafford Group focuses its efforts on fast-growing Lifestyle Sports
December 23, 2020 1:43 pmIn October, LCC Group, a Northern Ireland-based fuel company, struck a deal with the Stafford family to buy their three... View Article
Covid impact: number of M&As notified to competition watchdog falls by one quarter
December 23, 2020 1:06 pmThe Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has received 38 notifications of mergers this year, down from 47 in 2019.... View Article
A racing uncertainty: online wagers sustain racing as major tracks edge into the mire
December 23, 2020 5:20 amTim Husbands is getting ready to open Leopardstown’s gates to nobody on Saturday. Foxrock’s much-celebrated four-day Christmas Festival, so popular... View Article
“This is a small country, and it is easy to be your own agent. You fight more for yourself than anyone else will”
December 23, 2020 5:05 amI have known Oliver Callan since we were both 18-year-old journalism students in DCU. He was from Monaghan and I... View Article
“People talk about pivoting, I’m like a ballet dancer at this stage”
December 22, 2020 5:55 amIn 2014, when Ronan Campbell considered taking over DesignYard from Gerry Crosbie, he had already opened three jewellery shops –... View Article
Backed by an Asian conglomerate, two doctors want to shake up Irish primary healthcare in a €162m plan
December 22, 2020 5:35 amDrs Tony Heffernan and David Moloney were two of the founders of the Mallow Primary Health Centre, one of the... View Article
Coppers’ rates clash: Dublin night-club takes State’s valuers to court
December 21, 2020 5:08 pmThe company operating Dublin’s best-known night-club Copper Face Jacks has launched legal action over commercial rates. Breanagh Catering Ltd, through... View Article
“We’ve now got an indigenous philanthropic community. And I was really struck by the fact that we knew almost nothing about this”
December 21, 2020 5:30 amIreland was the highest ever scoring European country for charitable giving over eight years from 2010 to 2018 and the... View Article
Ireland’s once-booming coffee industry: dinged by Covid, but don’t count it out
December 21, 2020 5:15 amBefore pour-overs, €13 coffee beans, minimalist decor, and succulent plants, there was the boot of Eamonn Mongey’s Opel Astra. Mongey,... View Article
