In Jay we trust: Fed’s first interest rate cut in four years sets course for controlled inflation
September 20, 2024 5:58 amThe Fed has spoken. For months, the financial world has been agog with what it might do and when, but... View Article
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Saving Press Up: Stabilising, then offloading restaurant chains is the next logical step
September 19, 2024 5:22 amThe Press Up restructuring team unveiled by The Currency last week is moving fast. Representing Cheyne Capital, the Dublin hospitality... View Article
Colm McCarthy: A new stadium in Belfast without enough match days is a waste of money, whoever pays for it
September 19, 2024 5:13 amTaoiseach Simon Harris renewed on Sunday the pledge of €50 million from the Irish Exchequer for the GAA’s Casement Park... View Article
Shaking the snow globe: How Budget 2025 can provide SMEs the support they desperately need
September 18, 2024 5:16 amI met one of Ireland’s best-known insolvency practitioners for coffee the morning I wrote this column. “Something doesn’t feel right,... View Article
Debt, risk and transparency: Why Press Up’s company structure is so convoluted
September 17, 2024 5:38 amTo understand the corporate and financing structure of the Press Up hospitality group, I started researching the companies connected with... View Article
With a victory lap around Ireland, Margrethe Vestager is leaving Brussels a winner
September 16, 2024 5:26 amIt’s probably fair to say that Margrethe Vestager is not a favourite among those in the halls of Leinster House.... View Article
Making the Apple money truly work for Ireland: Rewinding the week that was
September 15, 2024 5:18 amLast week, after Europe’s highest court ruled that Ireland had granted €13 billion in “illegal” tax breaks to Apple, I... View Article
Businesses and buildings don’t just come from the ether. People like Paddy McKillen Jnr created them
September 14, 2024 5:02 amI met the photographer Shane Lynam a few years after he returned from Paris to live in Dublin. Lynam had... View Article
Shane Lowry’s Kingspan exit crowned its sponsorship woes. But bigger battles may loom in the UK
September 13, 2024 5:24 amThere have been few greater sights in recent Irish golfing history than Shane Lowry claiming his first major at Royal... View Article
Colm McCarthy: Empty trains, shuttered airports, and the folly of the “Just Do It” mantra
September 12, 2024 5:26 amA suburban rail station at Kishoge on the Kildare line out of Dublin Heuston has finally opened 15 years after... View Article
