Interrogating Irefs, unpicking tax schemes, and unravelling Siteserv: Rewinding the week that was
May 22, 2022 5:51 amTen days ago, I made my way to Dublin Castle to meet with Niall Cody, the country’s top tax official. The... View Article
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Unravelling Siteserv – the full three-part series
May 21, 2022 8:00 pmPart 1 – The rise, fall and sale of a boomtime business This is a story about money. It is... View Article
Unravelling Siteserv: Part 3 – Good faith, misleading information and the seven-year fallout of a single deal
May 21, 2022 5:15 amThere has been an overarching theme to this story; time and again information was withheld from IBRC over the sale... View Article
This is not an exit: 20 years on, why there are no lessons to be learned from Saipan
May 21, 2022 5:10 amOn a June night in 2001, Peter Reid, then the Sunderland manager, found himself in Lillie’s Bordello in Dublin along... View Article
Davy bond sale a “great deal” for Kearney, court hears
May 20, 2022 4:32 pmThe €5.3 million sale of an Anglo bond to a consortium of Davy staff members in 2014 was a “great... View Article
Unravelling Siteserv: Part 2 – From a bootcamp in St Moritz to a management incentive plan
May 20, 2022 12:40 pmAs all the bidders for Siteserv were preparing to submit their round two offers on Monday, January 30, 2012, something... View Article
Unravelling Siteserv: Part 1 – The rise, fall and sale of a boomtime business
May 20, 2022 5:30 amThis is a story about money. It is a story about how money is made and how money is retained.... View Article
Behind the scenes at Davy Hickey’s multi-million-euro fraught asset disposal
May 20, 2022 5:12 amLast November, shareholders in the Davy Hickey property joint venture behind the development of Dublin’s Citywest campus buried the hatchet... View Article
“We wanted somewhere that could offer a strong, yet affordable quality of life for our employees”
May 20, 2022 3:01 amDr Nora Khaldi founded Nuritas in Dublin in 2014, and now, almost a decade on, she is packing her bags.... View Article
What Metropolitan Films tells us about the Irish film and TV industry – in six graphs
May 19, 2022 11:49 amFrom its base in Ardmore Studios in Co Wicklow, Metropolitan Films has made a significant business teaming up with international... View Article
