Far-right elements were quick to mobilise ahead of rioting in Dublin last night. With anti-immigrant sentiment growing across social media platforms, the real-world harm of the online echo chamber is now plain to see.
Web Summit shareholder Daire Hickey alleges his interests have been further damaged by clients and speakers disassociating themselves from last week's Lisbon event. Hickey also takes aim at coverage of the conflict by The Ditch, the media outlet funded by the company during Cosgrave's tenure as CEO.
Ireland’s largest nursing homes group suffered from the scandal that nearly broke its French multinational parent last year, but a bail-out agreed in Paris is beginning to trickle down into this country.
The corporate world has long invested time and money in activities doing more harm than good to the natural world. With biodiversity now living on borrowed time, UCD’s Shane McGuinness is leading the drive to flip the script.
Ireland's planning system is unusal for how it relies on individual planner discretion. A provision in the new planning bill would, in certain circumstances, replace planner discretion with objective rules.
The National Broadband Plan’s contractor is speeding up the construction of its network and the connection of paying customers. An incentive scheme is fully funded to reward its senior staff.
As a former FBI agent, Jason Smolanoff led some of the world’s largest cybercrime investigations. He talks about the rise of cyberwarfare, ransomware, and the lengths that some criminal gangs will go to cover their tracks.
An Israeli cybersecurity start-up has been trying to give Web Summit Ventures back a six-figure investment in its seed round for five weeks following Paddy Cosgrave's online remarks about Israel, but it claims it is being ignored by the Irish company.
RGRE, the property group headed by Johnny Ronan, remains in talks with an international investor about the refinancing of loans relating to the assets.
This summer, a landmark building changed hands for €23 million; meanwhile Dublin City Council agreed to pay nearly four times that price to use it for emergency accommodation over 10 years. Its landlord appears in a series of similar deals.
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