Many companies are seeking to curb costs at a time when staff are dealing with rising energy bills and interest rate hikes. An industrial relations dispute at MSD’s plant in Brinny, Co Cork shows how relations can quickly deteriorate.
From a discreet building in Ballsbridge, a few dozen staff running the Ingka Group's international bank and financial investment fund now manage over €30 billion in liquid assets – and counting. This investigation opens the door to the low-key Dublin office.
Frontline founding partner Will Prendergast says the investment slowdown has already happened in Europe. However, impact investor Faye Walsh Drouillard remains much more upbeat. “It is not all doom and gloom for us,” she said.
High construction costs are the bane of our housing system. New data sheds some light on what might be causing them.
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.
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