Behind the H&MV sale: How much was it worth and who made what?
February 28, 2022 5:55 amThe family of Limerick-based entrepreneurs Hugh and Finola O’Donnell stands to reap the largest benefits from the majority takeover announced... View Article
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Stephen Kinsella: Russia is fighting a military war. The west is fighting an economic one. How does it end?
February 28, 2022 5:50 amTiming matters. I am writing this at 3pm on Sunday afternoon. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the imposition... View Article
Sport may not be interested in war, but war is interested in sport
February 27, 2022 2:49 pmIn 2008, the then Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni gave the FAI some advice when discussions about moving an Ireland fixture... View Article
Russian money in the IFSC, secrets and settlements at Terenure College and build-to-rent: Rewinding the week that was
February 27, 2022 5:09 amOn Friday morning, as Russian troops and tanks began encircling Kyiv, the Minister for European Affairs Thomas Byrne disclosed on... View Article
Ireland is a global hub for aviation leasing firms. And many of them have a significant Russian exposure
February 26, 2022 6:42 pmIreland will be among the worst hit countries following new European Commission sanctions which will mean Russian airlines will be... View Article
“Vladimir Putin is not a fully rational actor. His sentiments towards Ukraine are not those of rational calculus.”
February 26, 2022 5:44 amOn Thursday morning, I emailed Lidiia Akryshora at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. I wanted to see if... View Article
Tony Wilson’s war: How an evening news presenter shaped a modern city and fell out with everyone (except Sean Boylan)
February 26, 2022 4:56 amFor those of us who grew up in the north west of England, it remains incongruous that someone who was... View Article
“Ukraine is the principal geopolitical fault line of the post Cold War world.”
February 26, 2022 4:49 amThroughout her career as an academic, writer and broadcaster, Helen Thompson has thought more deeply than almost anyone about the... View Article
Urgent and “unusually complex”: the early days of Wirecard’s collapse
February 25, 2022 5:20 pmIt was 34 days of of “intense activity” and urgent action, the court was told. On October 28, 2020 joint... View Article
Barman Will Agar was emigrating to Spain. However, after a chance conversation with a regular, he is now the pub’s proprietor
February 25, 2022 1:52 pmBarman Will Agar was taking out beer kegs from the cellar of Charles FitzGerald’s pub on August 28, 2021. After... View Article
