Despite a 2024 pledge to shift away from reliance on hoteliers, the latest data shows hotel groups remain central to emergency accommodation as the State struggles to deliver its own purpose-built centres.
From billionaire trusts to ownership dead-ends, The Currency examined the corporate structures of private providers with offshore links.
The Currency examined 32,000 payments worth €6.3bn paid to more than 800 recipients since 2020 to piece together the key groups active in the private refugee accommodation sector.
US banker Alex McWhorter has headed Citi’s Ukrainian business since 2018. Having turned its vault into a bomb shelter, the bank is now growing along with the country’s economy – but real prosperity depends on peace.
Emergency-repair teams and power-station workers fight around the clock to restore power and heating under constant Russian attacks, writes Oksana Grytsenko, The Wall Street Journal.
Over the past week, the EU, US and UK have sanctioned Rosneft and other oil industry players. Questions linger about the Russian energy firm’s remaining Irish subsidiary.
The e-book company relocated its HQ to Ireland several years ago but it finds itself in an unusual position with being sanctioned by both Ukraine and Russia.
Asset-stripping and then war stopped the sale of one of Ukraine's best known shopping centres Univermag Ukrainia by liquidators acting for the Irish state. Now a deal is finally almost done.
While the truculent billionaire sparred with Poland over how Starlink’s satellites are funded in Ukraine, the company has tripled revenues for Europe, all booked through Ireland.
This week has seen the US set the European agenda, giving its Nato allies a choice between a real war or a trade war.
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