The East Coast Bakehouse has gone into interim examinership. A report filed in the High Court outlines the company’s financial position, examines what went wrong, and details its plans for survival.
The committee will call on the City of Dublin ETB, which operates the student grant system, to explain a €4m overspend on the as-yet-completed project. The Currency reported the project's ongoing issues including removal of the original contractor in 2021.
The European Securities and Markets Authority’s latest report on fund marketing materials notes how rules from country-to-country still differ, despite efforts for greater harmonisation.
The oil and gas explorer tried to halt a construction firm’s petition over a $16.5m debt but a High Court judge disagreed, describing the company being in a “parlous financial position”.
Plume Design is backed by some of the biggest investors in the world including SoftBank and Insight Partners. It has just bought Dublin-based Sweepr, because it believes it can help internet providers compete on experience, not just price and speed.
Co-founded by entrepreneurs Michael Carey and Alison Cowzer, East Coast Bakehouse employs 78 people in Drogheda. An interim examiner has been appointed to help save the business.
As AI reshapes how people learn and teach, Dr Mary Kelly, the new president of Hibernia College Group, explains how technology is being embedded into teacher training — and why exporting that expertise is now a global opportunity.
Finance Ireland has been reported to be up for sale for over a year. Now a €10 billion Austrian bank, which already has Irish interests, is seeking to buy it.
The EU-Mercosur trade deal is moving ahead but the Irish Farmers’ Association is game-planning its final effort to get the agreement tossed out by the European Parliament.
Last year, TikTok was fined €530m by the DPC and ordered to bring its data transfers to China into line with EU privacy law. The High Court stayed the ruling as the platform argued the damage caused would be in the billions. That stay is now set for an urgent Supreme Court appeal.
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