How a recession can provide you with the perfect conditions for starting your own business
August 31, 2020 5:29 amIn many ways, the Ireland, well, certainly the Dublin, of February 2020, was fast becoming a hostile environment to do... View Article
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From £75 gig fees to 75 years: Van Morrison, a musical genius who does not suffer fools gladly
August 29, 2020 5:50 amI’ve fantasised about writing a gritty memoir where I negotiate Van Morrison’s first gig in Dublin when his hit single “Baby Please... View Article
EUR/USD at 1.50? It’s not as impossible as you might think
August 28, 2020 5:37 amIn recent months, EUR/USD has risen from levels of around 1.08 (at the beginning of May) to current levels just... View Article
30 years on from Goodman’s collapse, examinership has stood the test of time
August 28, 2020 5:33 amAugust 29, 2020 is the 30th anniversary of the signing into law of the Companies (Amendment) Act 1990 by President... View Article
Phil Hogan is gone – but Ireland will likely keep its trade commissioner
August 27, 2020 5:33 amAfter an excruciating six days – in which the trip to Clifden grew from a national to a European to... View Article
How to save Irish retail: get online and snatch consumers’ pent-up savings from Amazon
August 26, 2020 5:35 amThere are two stimuli our economy can count upon before Christmas. One is the economic recovery plan which will be... View Article
From Anglo to Covid-19: A decade on, another political golfing scandal crystallises a national crisis
August 25, 2020 2:38 pmIt was a time of uncertainty, fear and crisis. There was only one thing to do – play a game... View Article
Why tourism could take four years to get back to where it was in 2019
August 25, 2020 5:09 amThe novel coronavirus has completely reshaped the tourism and hospitality sector worldwide, sparing no country, no destination and no venue.... View Article
Will the competition regulators thwart Link’s acquisition of rival Pepper?
August 24, 2020 5:06 amThe Link Group and Pepper flourished in Ireland after the crash. Their job is to act as vulture funds’ boots... View Article
Resilient CRH is cruising through 2020. Next up, a dividend
August 21, 2020 5:53 amWhat’s most surprising, looking at CRH’s first-half results and share price reaction yesterday, is how little the company has been... View Article
