Damian Young worked at Bank of Ireland for 25 years before leaving for a job in Silicon Valley. Having seen how transport is changing, he launched an e-scooter business in Germany last year. Now he wants to expand the business elsewhere while also looking to raise €10m.
As Irish motorists desert toll plazas under a new lockdown, analysis of traffic data for 2020 shows the sector’s revenue collapsed. An investigation of the past decade's figures across 10 tolled roads shows this is bad news for the state.
The trade agreement between the EU and the UK is just days old, and supply chains are already facing disruption even as freight traffic remains low following holidays and pre-Brexit stockpiling. And this is just the start.
Despite Covid-19, Conor McCarthy remains focused on scaling Dublin Aerospace. He talks about rising through the ranks at Aer Lingus, being poached by Michael O’Leary, launching AirAsia and why he would never become a tax exile.
Galway company Xerotech is quietly planning to supply batteries to the vehicles nobody is talking about: the tractors, the excavators, the road sweepers. Its founder Barry Flannery talks about raising funds to tackle a €100bn market.
In legal proceedings aimed at overturning overseas travel restrictions, the budget carrier claims the government's coronavirus travel advice amounts to an undemocratic "diktat".
The south coast of Dublin has been radically reimagined as a haven for cyclists. The Currency's Tom Lyons takes to his bike and meets the man driving the project.
Covid-19 has smashed transport companies, and social distancing will make many of them non-viable. Governments have rushed to the aid of a small number of favoured companies. Could the end result be a re-nationalisation of the transport industry?
While the outsourcing of GoSafe speeding cameras has left the state with a €9m annual shortfall, documents obtained across several countries reveal that private investors make millions every year from the controversial Garda contract.
The Government is supporting ferry companies to keep sailing despite the absence of passengers. Hauliers forced to run empty lorries on some return journeys are now asking for the same treatment while the pandemic disrupts supply chains.
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