Grand designs: Paddy Kelly on resilience, vulture funds, debt and restoring Irish castles
September 4, 2020 5:29 amA decade ago, veteran developer Paddy Kelly gave a talk at the McGill Summer School. Held in the Donegal town... View Article
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“I believe it is a shabby, shabby industry”: Rory Gillen on a life in Irish wealth management
September 3, 2020 5:30 amRory Gillen is telling me about what it is like to go and see investment guru Warren Buffett in the... View Article
“Wholly artificial and unmeritorious”: Inside the battle over a €95m healthcare deal
September 3, 2020 5:24 amIt is a truism that there are always two sides to every story but when it comes to lawsuits it... View Article
No concerts? No problem. German listed events group teams up with ex-Aiken promoters for new Irish venture
September 2, 2020 2:56 pmOn the Frankfurt stock exchange, its ticker symbol is LOUD. Deutsche Entertainment AG (DEAG), a company specialising in organising rock... View Article
Out of fashion: The inside story of how New Look’s Irish network came unstuck by rising rents and falling sales
September 2, 2020 5:51 amAt first glance, New Look appears to be sitting rather pretty in Ireland. The Irish wing of the British retail... View Article
“There could be up to 3,000 redundancies in the next couple of weeks”
September 2, 2020 5:10 amOf all the businesses affected by necessary restrictions brought about by Covid-19, one indigenous industry is under threat of complete... View Article
“Maybe one day in the not so distant future, Shack Restaurant may be able to open once more, but that outlook today looks bleak”
September 1, 2020 11:30 amShack Restaurant, a well-known eatery in the heart of Dublin city, has become one of the latest establishments to shut... View Article
Ashley’s Irish initiative: Retail magnate lines up bid for Debenhams’ Irish store network
September 1, 2020 5:47 amMike Ashley has had somewhat of a strained relationship with Ireland in recent years. The British retail magnate tried and... View Article
Is Ireland ready for the shift to thrift? While the apparel sector is challenged, fast-growing resale platforms are thriving
September 1, 2020 5:34 amIreland has had a tenuous relationship with the resale market. The idea of taking someone else’s hand-me-downs has proven a... View Article
Collison on a potential Stripe IPO, Amazon and the future of the office
August 31, 2020 5:33 amPatrick Collison, the co-founder of the $36 billion valued online payments company Stripe, has said that a stock market listing... View Article
