Full coverage: Isif

The agency's latest annual report shows the move was recent as it held €3.6m in bonds at the end of 2024. It also retained investment in companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements, while shares in controversial tech firm Palantir increased last year.

Conor Mowlds is the second high-profile resignation from the State port in 18 months. FOI documents shed new light on former CEO Eoin McGettigan’s resignation last year. Meanwhile, board member Philip Smith died on Sunday.

A dispute among investors, including the Irish State, has reignited in the US as Acero Capital challenges the terms of a lifeline deal for the struggling mobile marketing tech firm from 2020.

Sustainability-focused VCs gathered in Wicklow to look for investment opportunities in Irish companies. Event mastermind Faye Walsh Drouillard says funds are looking to Ireland for new opportunities and she wants to put the country on the map.

In October, the Port of Cork started work on a new berth, capable of accommodating the massive offshore wind turbines that will be installed off Ireland’s coasts. The Currency visited to learn more.

The newly elected TD Eoin Hayes courted controversy over shares he held in the US company whose intelligence software is used by the Israeli military. The NTMA held €300,000 worth of shares in the company at the end of 2023.

Oireachtas scrutiny has laid out the clear moral imperative of the bill. But it has also brought an unwelcome truth - it needs work on a practical, legal and constitutional footing.

The Government is under pressure to relinquish State investment worth €4.2 million in 11 companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements. A new opposition bill may force its hand.

Since entering the Irish market in 2017, growth fund BGF has deployed €97.5m across 13 investments. The head of its Irish business Leo Casey talks about investment strategy, economic headwinds, and why the firm’s model insulates it from the current M&A slowdown.

Irish software company Swrve has raised close to $140m from Isif, Atlantic Bridge and others. However, after burning through most of its funds without making a profit, the firm has now raised more $8m in debt and restructured around $10m in loan notes.