In 2016, Tom Cotter began toying with the idea of making clothes for water sports enthusiasts. After eight years of hard knocks, his company OceanR is now backed by some of Ireland’s savviest business people – and primed for more.
Experienced business investor Kevin MacSweeny has just bought a 20% stake in Kevin Canning's Quintas Capital. As it launches a new equity investment division for SMEs, Canning and MacSweeny talk strategy, cheque sizes and deal pipelines.
Riverview Eggs is the largest producer and packer of eggs in Munster. Now it has been sold to another Irish family-owned business.
Replacing call centres with home workers and a suite of customer management services and technologies is proving to be a scalable business for the Cork-based company.
Attestor Capital is close to buying The Rearden's Group in Cork, giving it a strong base in Munster as well as Leinster. The London-based fund, which already owns Dublin's oldest pub, is on the look out to buy even more.
Ian Bailey spoke at length to Máiría Cahill in the west Cork town of Schull where he was the main suspect in the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. He was polite, edgy, guarded, a performer who could be chilling.
Selling the naming rights to Páirc Uí Chaoimh makes functional sense but doesn’t compute emotionally. It also begs the question: Why do we keep building stadiums when we’re not sure how to fill them?
RDJ boss Jamie Olden talks growth and opportunity, and explains why 2024 will be a tough year for hospitality and commercial property.
The three-year-old legal battle over who owns the five-star resort has taken a new twist, with highly contested claims of manipulated surreptitious recordings and a Chinese arrest warrant.
Ahead of this year’s Entrepreneur Experience, event co-captain Rena Maycock reflects on what she learned from participating in the event, explaining that what she found in Ballymaloe was a carefully curated collection of givers.
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