From school friends to biotech innovators: The story of Lir Therapeutics (so far)
October 30, 2025 5:39 amIt began, as so many modern start-ups do, with a cold email. Two Irish scientists – school friends who had... View Article
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H2 where? Part 1: How Ireland (almost) became Germany’s green hydrogen quest partner
October 30, 2025 5:17 amOn Monday, an Italian court approved the extradition of a 49-year-old Ukrainian man arrested near Rimini on August 21 and... View Article
COO is second senior executive to resign from Port of Cork in four months
October 29, 2025 4:38 pmCaptain Paul O’Regan, harbour master and chief operations officer at the Port of Cork Company, has resigned his position, the... View Article
Developers defended and won an epic court battle. Now they want €20m in damages
October 29, 2025 4:04 pmMembers of the Wexford haulage dynasty Nolan Transport are facing a €20 million damages claim, having lost key strands of... View Article
An Post and Fastway Couriers: A “competitive market” or “predatory pricing”?
October 29, 2025 3:44 pmFastway Couriers, one of Ireland’s largest parcel delivery firms, which is now facing closure, wrote to its biggest competitor An... View Article
Small team, big impact: How Tapestry VC is competing with the world’s venture giants
October 29, 2025 5:46 amNone of Patrick Murphy’s friends were interested in computers in school. Growing up in Blackrock, a seaside village in Co... View Article
“Clubs are businesses”: Whitney Moore’s Emma Richmond on why governance matters in sport
October 29, 2025 5:39 amWhen most people think about sport, they picture elite athletes, packed stadiums, or sponsorship deals. But for the majority of... View Article
Lender to Fastway Couriers appoints receivers after it failed to secure new capital
October 28, 2025 8:50 pmA receiver has been appointed to Fastway Couriers, the private equity-backed delivery company which employs 300 people, after it failed... View Article
Inside the Barchester deal: How Irish billionaires tapped US appetite for UK care homes
October 28, 2025 5:12 pmIn the early 1990s, British entrepreneur Mike Parsons was dismayed when he went out to find quality care for his... View Article
Stéphane Fund’s Trasna is going public in a £150m reverse takeover deal
October 28, 2025 11:13 amTrasna, an Irish-headquartered tech company founded by Frenchman Stéphane Fund, is being acquired in a £150 million (€171.24 million) reverse... View Article
