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.
Nick Corcoran grew up in Dublin’s inner city and his first job was selling vegetables from a van in Ballymun. Today, along with his business partner Nigel McDermott, he runs Cardinal Capital, a pioneer in the Irish alternative financing sector.
A new study says civil servants matter to infrastructure projects. When the state is investing billions on infrastructure, competent officials are a good investment.
To avoid having to pay much more taxes in 2050, Ireland should recruit workers. Our current posture — surprised and inconvenienced by population growth — is the worst of all worlds.
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