Pickets and blackballing: the WRC deals with disharmony in the film sector
April 22, 2022 11:29 amIndustrial relations in the film production industry isn’t an area that receives much mainstream attention. But the past decade has... View Article
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Jimmy Menton on energy security, Providence’s prospects, and why Eamon Ryan is wrong on Barryroe
April 22, 2022 5:16 amWhen Providence Resources discovered the Barryroe oil field off the coast of Kinsale in early 2012, the market was ecstatic.... View Article
“Ideally, we would like to see RTÉ move to a publisher-broadcaster model over the next number of years, a similar model to TG4”
April 21, 2022 5:49 amSusan Kirby has been heading up Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) for fifteen months when we meet over Zoom. A last-minute... View Article
Jobs, tax, contingency plans: Behind the scenes at Aughinish Alumina
April 21, 2022 5:11 amFour years ago, with the help of a quick divestment and some accounting ingenuity, the Irish government was able to... View Article
Construction costs are the bane of Irish housing. Could 3D-printed concrete houses help?
April 20, 2022 5:55 amUpon studying the housing crisis in Ireland for a while, there’s a depressing realisation that everything comes back to construction... View Article
Sinéad O’Sullivan on how America’s young elite aim to 10x their wealth
April 20, 2022 5:29 amIn a few years Sinéad O’Sullivan transplanted herself from Armagh to Belfast, to Strasbourg, to Atlanta, to Harvard Business School... View Article
Legal turbulence: Inside the battle between a German banking heavyweight and a US private equity giant
April 20, 2022 5:26 amColm Barrington likes to joke that he has three words for anybody looking to sell a company: call Goldman Sachs.... View Article
How a “purely artificial” licensing agreement on 198 house sales fell foul of the tax authority, and the Irish courts
April 19, 2022 5:55 amVieira is best known as the property company behind a large Celtic Tiger era housing development in Tyrrelstown in west... View Article
Data, demographics, and the elderly: Why a new strand to the housing crisis is coming
April 19, 2022 4:23 amIn 1950, there were about 320,000 people in Ireland over the age of 65. Just before the year 2000, this... View Article
Tax breaks, talent and FDI: Scripting a future for Ireland’s film and television sector
April 18, 2022 5:44 amBalance is a word often heard in conversations with the leading figures in the Irish screen industry. According to many... View Article
