Behind a leafy façade in Georgian Dublin, a small team has been instrumental in directing global institutional investors towards Irish property development. Based on hundreds of documents, site visits and insider information, this investigation tells Ardstone’s story.
When the housing crisis emerged, Ardstone Capital had an address book full of international investors and no baggage from the Irish property crash. In the past six years, it has discreetly funded every possible type of home in the country.
An anonymous message board for tech workers reveals salaries, disdain for Irish taxes and thoughts on life in Dublin. Popular in Silicon Valley, Blind has now found an eager new audience in Ireland.
Galway developer Alber has planning permission for over 100 homes on a Comer site, but has yet to pay for it. The property is at the centre of parallel legal and rezoning clashes.
In a wide-ranging interview, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar discusses a new priority system for data centres, changes to capital gains tax, the prospect of a trade war with the UK, and his determination to improve working conditions in Ireland.
As I read the Leo Varadkar interview, it was impossible not to think of our recent series by Stephen Kinsella on Ireland's generation gap. It was a sobering series, highlighting many of the issues that we talk about every day without ever drawing them all together.
Time and time again Boris Johnson and his cabinet provide evidence that they are making it up as they go along and doing a very bad job.
In a forthcoming podcast, John Banville says that a new book to be published in October is his last word.
The American right has always had a tension between conservatism and populism. It is a tension seen most worryingly in the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill. In this interview, Matthew Continetti discusses those tensions.
High Court records show the makers of the esteemed West Cork podcast about the death of the French film producer are planning to take legal action against the streaming giant in Dublin.
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