AIB pursued Philip Morrissey in the recession as a guarantor of circa €25m worth of debt racked up by his family's lucrative quarry firm. Having signed a settlement agreement, the businessman then tried a u-turn.
Jimmy Lai, a former textile and media tycoon, faces life imprisonment in Hong Kong for printing his pro-democracy newspaper. His son and Irish-led legal team are trying to find the right pressure points to stop that from happening.
The lack of gender diversity in the NDRC's latest batch is striking, with just one female co-founder amongst across all of the start-up teams. So who are the seven start-ups, what are their ideas and what are their chances of success?
Niamh Parker and Alan Beechinor co-founded the hotly tipped Irish AI firm. However, they are now exiting the business following a deal that rescued it from collapse.
Dealmakers Mark Flood and Stuart Fitzgerald are co-founders of the major SME conference. They talk to The Currency about Ireland's economic outlook and the pros and cons of taking on investment.
Members of the Belfry Redress Group will attend a private meeting of a joint Oireachtas Committee to highlight their concerns about AIB's redress scheme for scorched investors in the ill-fated property schemes.
A conversation with RDS CEO Geraldine Ruane, ID-Pal founder and CEO Colum Lyons and Ding and OpenBack co-founder David Shackleton about protecting a culture of innovation, hanging onto talent and Irish attitudes towards entrepreneurs.
Deloitte partner David Van Dessel has been tracking the insolvency data for more than a decade. He talks about why the government supports created an artificially low number of failures, the sectors most at risk, and the wider economic outlook.
Developer Patrick Kearney has agreed to pull the plug on his multimillion euro lawsuit against Davy stockbrokers over the sale of his Anglo Irish Bank bonds to a consortium of staff in 2014. He had claimed he was "fraudulently induced" into a settlement in the wake of the deal.
Whether policymakers know it or not, trying to minimise vacancy is trying to bring about a system that puts housing before people. If it came to it, which would we rather have: people with homes, or homes without people?
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