Donal Murphy is CEO of DCC, which became one of Ireland’s greatest companies by focusing, laser-like, on return on capital. But return on capital is not the thing ESG investors care about. Is there another solution to DCC's valuation problem?
TechAds is said to owe close to $1.9 million to online marketing contractors hired to drive traffic to internet providers. The company is said to be considering a counterclaim over "unauthorised traffic".
Tasked with digitally transforming the HSE, Martin Curley has resigned. He blames a lack of "will and skill" in the HSE's management and constant blockages of innovation. He no longer believes it is possible to fix the system from the inside.
It was to be the biggest anaerobic digestion plant in Ireland. But the multimillion Huntstown bioenergy plant is unfinished and up for sale, the Commercial Court has been told, in a €3m dispute over a 2018 share agreement.
As Judge Brian Cregan phrased it: “This is very choppy waters now, for everyone.” So what happened over the past week to bring Altada, Cometgaze, Datech, creditors, and employees into this period of squally swell?
Having navigated a pandemic, the aviation sector now faces inflation, interest rates, and an invasion. Yet, KPMG’s head of aviation finance Joe O’Mara remains upbeat and explains how Ireland can stay at the centre of the aviation world.
Premier Periclase, a magnesium manufacturing plant in Co Louth, employed more than 90 people before it went into examinership. Today, the number is just seven. Just what happened? And what happens next?
American businessman Jeff Leo had a weekend deadline to conclude a formal offer for the AI firm. The deadline passed without conclusion, putting a rival bid by the entrepreneur Eoin Goulding back in play.
The church on which Joyce declared war for its smug judgmentalism is strikingly reflective of Harry’s own campaign against a modern priesthood - the tabloid press.
The failures of the old FAI are known to everyone but Irish football needs constant exposure to new ideas as it tries to stand on its own two feet.
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