Several prominent analysts have argued that ECB rate hikes will be self-defeating and that they will make a bad situation worse. I don’t agree. Here is why.
The Queen and the newly crowned King engaged deeply to improve relationships between Ireland and the UK. This remains an important counter balance to the forces that pushed for Brexit.
Liverpool's crisis might have arrived suddenly but the failure to take action before now means that it may take a long time to recover.
At a tense meeting today, medical diagnostics firm HiberGene was placed into liquidation. The meeting was briefed on how much the company owes creditors, including Enterprise Ireland and the Irish tax authority.
Former Bloxham Stockbrokers boss Pramit Ghose was involved in a legal row over the firm's management of a fund on behalf of a brain-damaged Co Cork man. The High Court has now made a costs order against Ghose.
LegitFit, the gym and studio software business, has just raised €1m in a funding round led by Delta Partners. The company's CEO and co-founder Ryan O'Neill explains the background to the funding round, and unveils the company’s plans for the future.
When comic John Bishop was introduced to tech investor Brendan Morrissey, Hears Technology, a for-profit social enterprise for the hard-of-hearing was born. Now Morrissey is being sued for alleged fraud in connection with €1m in company payments.
In the first half of this year, Cairn Homes sold more units than ever before. It was able to do this without absorbing higher construction costs.
The IBRC Commission report has revealed new details about the generous exit package received by Siteserv’s former CEO Brian Harvey, while also noting that neither he nor his wife paid any tax on the multi-million sale of his shares in the business.
At the end of a chapter entitled, “Mr Harvey’s and McFadden’s shares in Mr O’Brien’s new company,” the IBRC Commission says the special liquidators of IBRC should take legal advice. The liquidators have now sent the report to A&L Goodbody.
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