The Pettitt family controls six supermarkets, six hotels and a scattering of other business interests. Diversification left them well placed when Covid-19 arrived. But they still managed to find significant cost savings during the pandemic.
In an in-depth analysis of Ireland’s rental market, Ronan Lyons charts how many properties must be built to curb spiralling rents. Demographic data also reveals what type of properties must be built, and where they should be be located.
With the end of the double Irish scheme, many US tech firms have cut Caribbean subsidiaries out of their corporate structures to focus their tax advantage on Ireland. One of them has just gone back to Bermuda instead – via Dublin.
Irish e-commerce financier Wayflyer has experienced exceptional growth since it was founded in 2019. It is now poised to raise $100 million in a funding deal that will give it a $1.5bn valuation. The deal marks a massive return for its early backers.
Ireland's performance against Japan was radically different to the first two years under Andy Farrell and the Joe Schmidt era but at this delicate stage of development, a heavy defeat against New Zealand would be a killer blow.
Tom Lyons talks about the Sean FitzPatrick he got to know during the interviews he did with the former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank.
The All Blacks coach Ian Foster has his detractors. They have been silenced by his team's performances in recent months but the big tests are to come, their former coach Steve Hansen tells New Zealand journalist Robert van Royen.
Aaron Rogan's book on Paddy Power details the rise of the company and why their expansion is just beginning. But in this podcast with Dion Fanning, they discuss why regulation may not be the only cloud on the horizon for betting companies.
A new €3.2m investment has allowed the online educational platform to exit examinership for the second time in three years. But unsecured creditors such as Facebook have taken steep haircuts.
The proposed €150 million redevelopment of the Setanta Centre on Nassau Street has a long and acrimonious history. A new High Court ruling means there is still a good stretch to go.
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