The Digital Markets Act fines against the tech giants are the first of their kind and could have reached many billions. Did the EU hold back because of US trade tensions?
Even before Éowyn, the creeping scale of costs was becoming clear as storms and their impacts worsened. As climate breakdown reaches Ireland, private and public coffers will be hit harder and harder.
The annual rent the OPW pays on behalf of the PSCU has increased over the years from around €60,000 to almost €200,000 since 2022. The arrangement has been in place since the 1990s.
Greenore Port Ltd, a Doyle Shipping Group company, wants to build an operations and maintenance base near the mouth of Carlingford Lough in Co Louth for offshore wind farms in the Irish Sea.
The IDLF, linked to entrepreneur Terry Clune, has raised over $2m in the US for a new fund even though the Immigrant Investor Programme was closed down two years ago.
Between 2015 and 2018 Getty claimed over €31.4m in foreign royalty withholding tax as a deductible expense in its Irish corporation tax returns. Revenue is fighting an uphill battle to block the move.
The judicial review has been initiated by the operator of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Swords which sought retention for a 248-space car park for Dublin airport passengers.
Documents released under FOI show former minister Catherine Martin was well briefed by July 2024, while the senior manager over arts was in the loop by March 2023. Why the "failure" in escalating the issue sooner?
Fund manager Waystone has reorganised its leadership across several countries following a slew of major executive exits in 2023 and more recently a CBI fine.
The latest audit shows non-compliant contracts accounted for only 1.15% of the Office of Public Works' budget. But compliance does not always equate with good procurement under "arbitrary" rules.
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