How the pandemic transformed Ireland’s book industry
April 20, 2021 5:15 amMary O’Donoghue started off with €500 worth of books in her second-hand bookshop The Book Lady, which she claims is... View Article
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Deep divisions but strong faith: the investor battle over clean tech start-up Exergyn heats up
April 19, 2021 8:05 pmA group of 93 private investors who have invested a combined €5.8 million in Exergyn, a potentially ground-breaking clean-tech start-up,... View Article
Worth it: the financial case for 12 clubs ditching the Champions League, and making everyone mad
April 19, 2021 5:45 pmEveryone is going nuts over the plans of 12 big European clubs to leave the Champions League and form a... View Article
After launching a start-up and settling a court action, the Tidey family is now selling the former home of WB Yeats
April 19, 2021 2:51 pmHaving recently convinced some of Ireland’s best-known business families to invest in their new start-up, the Tidey family now has... View Article
A Dublin businessman took a “swindler” to court in Norway, and came away with €600,000. This is his story
April 19, 2021 6:00 amDavid Jago had been a bookie himself, so he knew how much money was up for grabs – if the... View Article
After 30 years, an iconic Dublin shop pulled down the shutters and pivoted online. How many more will follow?
April 19, 2021 5:15 amFiona Smyth and her mother Susanna Smyth founded The Harlequin in 1993. The vintage shop, specialising in clothing and accessories,... View Article
A €6.8bn French care home giant is on an Irish land grab. And it has just snapped up another marquee asset
April 17, 2021 12:06 pmQuoted on the Paris stock exchange, and backed by the Canadian pension fund CPPIB, Orpea Groupe is one of the... View Article
“Bernie Madoff sold safety, he sold a sense of security in a crazy world”
April 17, 2021 6:00 amOne of the things that was striking about Bernie Madoff was that he didn’t want investors’ money. “People would try... View Article
This charming man: how Galen Weston transformed the face of Irish retail (and gave me my career)
April 17, 2021 5:30 amGalen Weston bought Brown Thomas as a gift for his wife Hilary. This also turned out to be a great... View Article
“We can speculate and say, you’re all going to be doomed and the Greens are going to be gone by the end of this. But it’s all to play for”
April 17, 2021 5:15 amHazel Chu’s decision to run for the Seanad seemed to expose fault lines in the Green Party. Eamon Ryan wanted... View Article
