From "kill all taigs" to bias, and Roy Greenslade's IRA sympathies, day two of lawyers Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth's defamation suit against businessman Denis O'Brien covered a lot of ground.
Ireland’s critique of the EU-Mercosur trade deal is causing increasing frustration in Brussels but MEPs are taking their time to pore over the fine print on new safeguards for farmers.
He’s guarded doors in gay nightclubs, built multimillion-euro travel empires, and once rented his home to Taylor Swift. Now, entrepreneur Bob Haugh is plotting his next big journey — building his luxury travel company, OROKO.
The US-based construction businessmen already have a significant investment in the Mercantile Group, as well as several other property, housing, and renewable energy projects in Ireland.
Two Belfast human rights lawyers claim a press release issued by the businessman in response to a 2016 report they co-authored on Irish media owners wrongly implied they were in the pay of the IRA. Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan commissioned the report.
The housing estate in Rathmolyon, Co Meath, was aimed at first-time buyers but when it ran into trouble it featured extensively in the media. Now a liquidator has been appointed to it.
First, a lender appointed a receiver to Paddy McKillen Jr’s Co Kerry property. Now the food business based there is facing a court petition to place it into liquidation.
The Irish builder, alongside partner Sainsbury's, was granted approval for the construction of a major development in Ladbroke Grove.
The EU justice commissioner Michael McGrath wants tougher powers to investigate Chinese e-commerce giants and will propose reforms to give the EU executive greater powers to probe companies like Shein and Temu.
A picture of artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs and its ripples through Ireland’s economic structures, tax base and public policy challenges is emerging from academic research and engagement between officials and business leaders.
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