The pubs that challenged FBD's stance on Covid-related business interruption cover were vindicated by the High Court. Now there is the tricky business of assessing losses, particularly around two big sticking points: partial pub closures and legal costs.
Having piloted CityJet through examinership, founder Pat Byrne believes the airline's model will benefit in a post-Covid recovery – but he is a scathing critic of the state's handling of Covid-19.
While some commercial property owners take beleaguered tenants to court, others agree to link rent and revenue. Could this become a standard clause in retail leases?
From 1,000 cases in 2019, High Court debt enforcement actions by banks and vulture funds fell to fewer than 200 last year. Who is still suing borrowers in the middle of a pandemic, who is not – and what is coming next?
It is easy to chart the physical results of Covid-19. But when it comes to mental illness, there is no barometer or gauge. The next generation will be paying for the financial cost of this crisis, and we owe it to them to help prevent decades of mental health issues.
Availed of by 66,000 firms, the €2.8bn wage subsidy scheme has been the cornerstone of the government’s economic response to Covid-19. However, Revenue has identified abuses including payroll manipulation and turnover suppression.
The property developer Paddy Kelly and the McCormack family rent out a property in Dublin’s IFSC to the company behind the Milano pizza chain. They are now seeking summary judgement in yet another landlord-versus-tenant rental dispute.
The State has the immediate means to support those businesses and workers most affected by the pandemic, but next month’s budget also needs to address where resources and debt repayments will come from in the medium term.
An army of contractors have seen revenue drop to a trickle as they faced empty offices and a freeze on corporate events. From hospitality to cleaning, three of them share their experience of the past seven months, their ideas to rebound and their anxiety about an uncertain future.
A string of Michael Wright’s Dublin pubs and restaurants stretching from Howth to Chapelizod are suing four separate insurance firms, adding to the pipeline of existing disputes over pandemic disruption cover.
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