Full coverage: Covid-19

The company was founded by Oxford researchers and run from Ireland. Attempts to reshore it through an examinership have fallen apart, while a separate UK court case looms large.

The pandemic has left its mark on the jobs and housing markets. Jobs became hybrid and the trend of more expensive counties seeing greater house price growth was halted. Is there a new model emerging?

Irish finance firm Credebt Exchange and British medical supplier Aventis Solutions are battling it out over the alleged loss of €700,000 tied to a deal to purchase 42 million face masks for NHS workers from China.

Months before it went public three years ago, British diagnostics firm LumiraDx established a business in Ireland. Its fortunes have fallen since then, and the Irish unit is now being liquidated.

Two new tax appeal decisions give an insight into post-pandemic complications for businesses ordered to pay back Covid-19 subsidy supports. Do they have a right to feel aggrieved?

Thousands of business owners breathed a sigh of relief when the Government eased the repayment terms for €1.72bn in tax liabilities parked since the pandemic but the “cheapest finance” scheme has multiple costs, too.

A mystery investor with “significant experience in the hospitality industry” is eyeing up the debt-laden Cornstore and Coqbull restaurant chains in Cork and Limerick, which applied for urgent court protection on Tuesday.

Moderna claims its patented mRNA innovations have been breached by Pfizer, the US pharma giant with a big footstep in Ireland. It is one of several patent infringement suits lodged by the US biotechnology firm.

During pre-trial talks, Paul Gallagher, now attorney general, is said to have struck a costs deal for his client FBD that would save the insurer a seven-figure sum. But the High Court has heard opposing counsel Michael Cush has a different recollection.

The HSE halted payments to the Mater Private amid concerns that it was being billed for hefty intercompany interest bills paid to a Luxembourg entity. The High Court has largely ruled in its favour.