Eight months into his new job, Kylemore Abbey’s executive director Conor Coyne is convinced that growth lies in quality over quantity. Helped by the religious ethos of his board members, he is investing millions into a more reflective form of tourism.
Going into 2020, The Currency spoke with some of the newest fashion designers to come out of Ireland about their plans for the start of the new decade.
ChannelSight co-founder John Beckett is on a mission to get tech companies to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by planting trees. He tells Tom Lyons about the latest developments at Forestry Partners and at his main online marketing business.
New documents show that Paddy McKillen has brought a counterclaim for damages against IBRC, alleging his character and reputation have suffered in the fallout from the Maple scheme.
Dylan Collins spent years trying to attune investors to the merit of his “kid tech” company. Now, SuperAwesome is being wooed by US bankers keen for a piece of a mooted $600m IPO. Just how did he do it? And what comes next?
Louis Walsh is a doyen of the Irish entertainment industry. The pop Svengali talks about the business of fame, how he spends his money, his early years in showbands and what Simon Cowell is really like.
In a retail world turned upside down by the digital revolution, the leadership style of Brown Thomas’s fashion director includes a measure of “listen and wait” and careful attention to young people.
Ireland is now under EU obligation to designate a regulator for the food trade. Who should police relations between farmers, processors and retailers? How much power should they have? Thomas Hubert meets Christine Tacon, the Groceries Code Adjudicator in the UK – arguably the most advanced country in this area.
Denis O'Brien had the chance to pay off a big chunk of Digicel's debt in 2015, but he turned it down. Now, Digicel bonds are falling in value, with the markets factoring in a possible default. Just what is going in? And what happens next?
As ambulances met a Laudamotion flight at Dublin Airport, civil aviation officials increased their scrutiny of the Austrian low-fares airline. Is this a bump in the ascent of the company recently sold by a Formula 1 legend to Ryanair?
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