Four months after the High Court appointed an inspector to WFS Forestry, non-cooperation has been the order of the day. Following a money trail to the UK and Spain, Declan de Lacy is seeking court orders to track down the company's assets.
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Joe Schull is a former Warburg Pincus dealmaker who wants to redefine private equity. He talks about his investment philosophy and why his fund, Corten Capital, has bought a majority stake in Ekco, and where the Irish firm plans to go next.
The ride-hailing giant’s Ireland general manager Kieran Harte speaks to The Currency about the country’s taxi shortage and its pitch to government for easing the licensing regime.
Constant hiring by technology firms has just turned into a wave of job cuts. Stephen Kinsella and Thomas Hubert discuss what this means for Ireland – and what the country should do about it.
Rising construction costs brought homebuilder Blacklough to the precipice. But renegotiated contracts and the pipeline of projects under the government's Housing for All scheme could help pull it back from the edge.
Windhoist had four big contracts all due for completion in a matter of months, but with no cash and no financing available it is has run out of road.
Last July SMBC Aviation wrote off $1.6 billion as 34 of its jets were marooned in Russia with little hope of recovery. It is now following a well-beaten path to the Irish High Court to pursue its claims against its insurers.
The country is somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 rental homes short of where it needs to be. A prudent Housing Minister would be thinking about the upper end of that range, as each year sees additional unmet need.
At a briefing hosted by The Currency and Cantor Fitzgerald, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe looked forward to his new ministerial portfolio, his next term at the helm of the Eurogroup, and how Ireland can navigate this tough year.
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