Meath-born brothers Des and Brendan O’Farrell have had separate yet overlapping careers. Both have launched diagnostics companies in the US, and both have brought in big investors. Now, they are co-investing in Irish diagnostics firm HiberGene.
The way Colm Casey sees it, the bottleneck in our housing system is risk. Risk is what stops lenders from lending and builders from building. HomeBuyer's Hero is his idea for how to remove risk from the system, and get more houses built.
Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, two “oligarchs” just added to the EU’s Russian sanctions list, are co-founders and shareholders of the LetterOne international investment vehicle that has Denis O’Brien on its technology advisory board.
Dasos Capital, with strong backing from the State and the European Investment Bank, has quietly assembled the country’s second-largest private forestry portfolio. How did it do it? And, how much is the portfolio worth?
A bank newly added to the US sanctions list raised the latest of $1.2bn in bonds in Dublin just three months ago. Meanwhile, restrictions on aircraft leasing are rattling the Irish-centred global industry.
Property developer Johnny Ronan is accused of trying to frustrate the multimillion-euro sale of lands in Cabinteely, south Dublin for commercial advantage. The High Court has been told there is a risk the preferred bidder will imminently pull out of the sale.
While peace talks begin on the Belarus-Ukraine border, many people here in Kyiv feel there is now no option but to prepare to fight and stay on high alert for the Russian saboteurs already on the city's streets.
The Limerick-based high-voltage engineering firm’s return to private equity ownership marks the exit of Hugh O’Donnell, who had supported a management buy-out less than four years ago.
The international community can curtail Russia with sanctions, essentially, forever. Russia cannot prosecute a war indefinitely. Ireland, meanwhile, must increase defence spending and clamp down on shadow banking in the IFSC.
With the rise of sportswashing projects, it has become harder to hold the cliched defence that sport and politics shouldn’t mix. Sport might insist it is not interested in politics, but it now has to take a stand.
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