Hastings Hotels has a portfolio of six luxury hotels in the North and is the co-owner of the five-star Merrion Hotel in Dublin. An analysis of its financial performance over a five-year period shows how it built a balance sheet strong enough to deal with the pandemic.
Ireland's restaurants and hotels are struggling to find chefs to feed their guests. Paddy Lynn is creating a new corridor for skilled Asian chefs to work here, but the process is long and arduous. Can it be sped up?
New data shows a catastrophic shortage of new rental accommodation. Adding a few thousand rental homes – in Dublin only – couldn't possibly be the cure for the rental market.
For years, the Irish-headquartered medical supplier Covidien outsourced core functions to the US without paying Vat on transactions including preparations for its acquisition by Medtronic. The company’s successful tax appeal is now going down the legal route.
A combination of Brexit, the war in Ukraine and a supply crisis means Irish craft businesses are struggling with spiralling costs that change by the day. Three owners discuss how they are dealing with the constant uncertainty and tight margins.
When the electricity grid operator failed to meet its targets during Covid, it cut performance-related pay, triggering a dispute with workers. Meanwhile, Eirgrid warns that curbs on new data centres in Dublin will be needed in the long term.
New documents reveal just how much creditors will lose on the failure of Roadbridge, one of the country’s s biggest civil engineering and construction companies. They also disclose new details about its assets, and who they are pledged to.
It's a long-standing fact that the Civil Service has more men than women in senior roles. Despite overall progress, two departments in particular stand out for an almost total lack of women in positions of influence.
Cork AI firm Altada employs 160 staff. As it prepares to close a new funding round, it has temporarily furloughed around 40 of them. The company has described the move as "prudent".
Rose Dugdale led an extraordinarily complex life which is captured in full by Sean O'Driscoll in his book. He talks to Dion Fanning about the good and the bad of the upper-class British woman turned IRA operative.
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