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Eight years after he sold Betdaq to Ladbrokes, Dermot Desmond has bought it back

November 24, 2021 5:11 pm Published by T. Lyons and J. Ward

Dermot 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 am Published by Sean Keyes

An 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 am Published by Thomas Hubert

After 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 am Published by Ian Kehoe

Andrew 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 pm Published by Francesca Comyn

Tech entrepreneur Paddy Cosgrave had a close relationship with telecoms mogul Denis O’Brien and flew several times on his private... View Article

How Supermac’s sailed through 2020 with barely a dent in profit

November 23, 2021 12:20 pm Published by Sean Keyes

Supermac’s, you would have thought, was one of the more vulnerable businesses in 2020. It owns 118 restaurants across Ireland... View Article

Intercom has hit $200m in annual recurring revenue. But where is the tech firm going next?

November 23, 2021 5:38 am Published by Tom Lyons

After travel restrictions eased between Ireland and the United States last summer, Karen Peacock, the chief executive of Intercom, flew... View Article