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Full coverage: Northern Ireland

“In Rose’s view, the Canary Wharf bomb forced the British to the negotiating table”

Rose Dugdale led an extraordinarily complex life which is captured in full by Sean O'Driscoll in his book. He talks to Dion Fanning about the good and the bad of the upper-class British woman turned IRA operative.

Dion Fanning
6th Aug, 2022 - 2 min read

Devenish in six graphs: The Belfast agribusiness is back in the black. What happens next?

After reporting stalled growth and heavy losses in 2020, Devenish Nutrition returned to profit last year. The group needs this to sustain growing indebtedness as it continues to bet on developing technologies.

Thomas Hubert
4th Jul, 2022 - 3 min read

Kainos executive on tech, talent and ethics at a £1.3bn company

Aislinn McBride is one of the most senior technology leaders at Kainos. As the Belfast software group’s international expansion pushes revenues past £300m, she openly discusses its next challenges: finding and keeping staff, fending off cyber attacks and exploring the ethics of AI.

Thomas Hubert
15th Jun, 2022 - 15 min read

Who killed Joe Campbell?: Part 2 – Police

In the second part of a major investigation into the murder of Joe Campbell, this is the story of the hunt for Joe Campbell's killer and the failures of the police which have denied his family justice for 45 years.

Phoebe Greenwood
5th Jun, 2022 - 17 min read

Who killed Joe Campbell?: Part 1 – Murder

Joe Campbell, a Catholic in the RUC, was murdered in 1977. For 45 years, his family have looked for justice. This weekend, in a major four-part investigation, we explore the circumstances of his death and who killed him.

Phoebe Greenwood
4th Jun, 2022 - 19 min read

“We wore out so much shoe leather trying to raise funds that we thought we’d have to do this ourselves”

Having been sucked into the spiral of Nama and vulture funds, Belfast property developers Gareth Graham and Adam Dickson saw the need for another form of lending. This is now their main business – all bootstrapped.

Thomas Hubert
11th Apr, 2022 - 8 min read

Barnier on Brexit, Europe and the French presidential election: “We must stop being naive”

Former EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier now runs the international campaign of presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse. He sat down with The Currency in Paris to discuss British and unionist attitudes to the NI Protocol, changing the EU, corporation tax and identity politics.

Thomas Hubert
19th Feb, 2022 - 13 min read

After 32 years, luxury hotel magnate Howard Hastings is stepping back. Here’s what he has learned

As he transitions from managing director to chairman of Hastings Hotels, Howard Hastings reflects about steering the business through the pandemic, the future of hospitality and the lessons he learned from his father.

Ian Kehoe
9th Feb, 2022 - 7 min read

Barcelona better business than Belfast for Cerberus vulture deals

Since the start of the pandemic, the US vulture fund has written down millions off the value of bad loans acquired from AIB in Northern Ireland – but reported no Covid-19 impact on its latest Irish-owned Spanish landlord business.

Thomas Hubert
23rd Sep, 2021 - 4 min read

At the source of the Northern Ireland Protocol: an Irish reading of Barnier’s “secret Brexit diary”

The UK and the EU remain at loggerheads over how to manage trade around Northern Ireland after Brexit, yet current issues were first raised four years ago and solutions agreed in 2019. In his book, the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier explains how we came to this, but also reveals his personal outlook on Ireland, partition and why peace was his top priority.

Thomas Hubert
19th Jun, 2021 - 26 min read
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