AI, the medical profession and the prestige revolution

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Residential energy company Hometree, led by Dubliner Simon Phelan, is now backed by finance giants BlackRock and Legal & General Capital. The company is ready to grow organically and by acquisition.

Last weekend, a seven-year-old girl slipped into the rough seas off Dún Laoghaire pier. The bravery of three RNLI volunteers saved her young life. Tom Lyons witnessed and filmed the heroic rescue. Today, the people who made the rescue tell the story.

The medical products multinational Covidien used to be headquartered in Ireland but rented key corporate services from a US subsidiary before selling itself to Medtronic. The High Court has just decided the Vat implications of those transactions.

While the Dublin engineering group took several years to find a buyer, its business expanded faster than anticipated. Its existing shareholders are being handsomely rewarded.

Clonmannon was a Co Wicklow estate with 44 bungalows, ready to be transformed into a retirement village. Chinese investors put millions of euro into the project. Now they are trying to pull the plug on the business over alleged debts and fears of asset dissipation.

The Meenbog wind farm has been mired in problems since a bog slide in 2020 beside the project’s construction site. Now, under challenge from Donegal County Council, it is seeking planning changes to try and get the project to the finish line.

Kevin Toland stood down as CEO of Aryzta in turbulent times during an investor revolt. Now he is suing the Swiss-Irish food giant.

Multinational insurer NFP has been on the acquisition trail in recent months, scooping up a host of companies in Britain and the United States ahead of a multi-billion sale of its business to Aon.

The appointment of rural TD and SME champion Peter Burke as minister for enterprise marks a shift in the Government’s attention towards the domestic economy, where expectations are high.