Full coverage: IDA

One of Ireland's most successful entrepreneurs, Terry Clune is personally understated but has interstellar ambition. In an in-depth interview, he discusses a potential IPO of his unicorn TransferMate, the bitter dispute with Connect Ireland, and a car accident that almost killed him.

A Wicklow supply company claims it is €3.5 million out of pocket because the IDA induced the HSE to withdraw from a ventilator contract. The development authority has launched a full-blaze defence.

Ireland's agency for foreign direct investment is being blamed for the HSE's withdrawal from a contract to buy critical ventilators. The Irish medical supplies firm who lost out on the deal now wants the IDA to pay damages.