West side story: The rehabilitation of Elverys
November 26, 2021 4:16 amIn 2014, Mike Ashley, the combative and controversial British retail magnate, was determined to take control of Elverys Sports. The... View Article
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To his titles as UFC fighter, whiskey entrepreneur and publican… Conor McGregor can add property developer
November 25, 2021 8:56 pmHe is one of the world’s highest-paid athletes, a whiskey entrepreneur and a publican. Now add property developer to the... View Article
Heavy debts and low returns – under the hood at Beacon Hospital
November 25, 2021 5:34 amHospitals are a safe bet, so they tend to take on a lot of debt. Because the industry is stable,... View Article
Drug delivery ‘3.0’: The inside story of the Irish biotech firm aiming to cure certain types of cancer
November 25, 2021 4:44 amDr Mary Martin was barely retired for four weeks in early 2016 when she was approached by fellow pharmaceutical veteran... View Article
The burden of proof: Gemma O’Doherty and John Waters win access to limited Supreme Court appeal
November 24, 2021 6:08 pmThe two former journalists Gemma O’Doherty and John Waters were refused leave by the High Court to bring a judicial... View Article
Eight years after he sold Betdaq to Ladbrokes, Dermot Desmond has bought it back
November 24, 2021 5:11 pmDermot Desmond’s reacquisition of Betdaq, a deal first reported in The Currency last month, has been confirmed in a statement... View Article
Behind the numbers: Filings show AIB paid a multiple of 11 times Ebitda for Goodbody
November 24, 2021 5:29 amAn analysis of Goodbody Stockbroker’s 2020 financials give a sense of what AIB was paying for, when it acquired the... View Article
Covid-19 toll: A €100m cost to the state and a central motorway link on the brink of default
November 24, 2021 5:21 amAfter Eurolink and DirectRoute, Celtic Roads Group (CRG) is the latest operator of public-private partnership (PPP) motorways to report the... View Article
Quality of life: Having moved back to Dublin, Huckletree’s Andrew Lynch believes many more will follow
November 24, 2021 5:03 amAndrew Lynch has spent a lot of time reflecting and contemplating in recent months. A decade after moving to London... View Article
A new front in the Web Summit battle: From a town hall meeting to Denis O’Brien’s jet
November 23, 2021 3:17 pmTech entrepreneur Paddy Cosgrave had a close relationship with telecoms mogul Denis O’Brien and flew several times on his private... View Article
