Serial food entrepreneurs Niall McGrath and Tom Gannon have just raised a multi-million euro round to fund the growth of Slicey, the world's first air-fryer pizza. Among the investors are sports stars and businesspeople.
Richard Collins founded Walfrid Private, a wealth management company without a “little black book” of contacts, that he has built into a significant business near the M50. He is also behind the Wealth Summit, a big event about business and money.
Brussels has a passion for regulation across a huge range of sectors from tech to finance and everything in between. However, there is a growing body of opinion that the policy is doing more harm than good.
Screendragon, a SaaS workflow automation company, has been growing fast but under the radar. Why did Kennet Partners and PE firm Federated Hermes decide to back it?
Left versus right is one way to think about politics. Another way is present-oriented versus future-oriented.
The social media giant re-invested half of the profits distributed by its Dublin advertising business last year. Ireland itself is the main destination of this splurge on cloud infrastructure.
Elkstone's venture, property and wealth management divisions are growing fast but it wants to do even more. As part of that strategy, co-founder Alan Merriman says the company wants to bridge the investment gap between Ireland and the US.
Pioneering legislation drove ISIF to sell off most of its fossil fuel investments, but not all. Billions in private bonds and shares also continue to flow to the industry through Ireland.
The four things the state must do if its to regain the ability to do very hard things.
We need to move beyond the short-term obsession and the archaic constraints of our traditional budgetary approach. We need to make and win the case in Brussels for splitting the capital budget from the current budget, and to fund the former separately.
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