Andrea Mara: “Rich people doing bad things is fun to read” 

Mayo have pushed Dublin closer and more consistently than anyone. They have more in them to end Dublin’s grasp on the Championship and their grasp on Mayo. It’s not their last chance. But it’s a very good chance.

The controversies are mounting. Sinn Fein is rising in the polls. Party discipline is collapsing. Does Leo Varadkar really want to lead Fine Gael into the next election or are his eyes moving to Europe?

In the second of two reports on the Cross Border Directive, Tommie Gorman looks at the surge of people in the south travelling north for treatment and operations, and why, under a new post-Brexit agreement, many in the North could now be travelling to the Republic.

The Court of Appeal ruling means Airbnb, which has its European headquarters in Dublin, has to hand over to the Austrian tax authorities details of hosts suspected of tax evasion.

Prior to the pandemic, Aaron O’Grady’s massive innovation studio was on course to post €12m in revenues. Within months, his closest advisers urged him to shutter it. Instead, he reinvented the business, and it has now come out the other side.

Greg Tarr won the overall 2021 BT Young Scientist prize by building software to detect deepfakes. His new startup Inferex has just raised a seed round from Frontline, ACT, NDRC and more.

Fitzgerald's, a Joycean pub in Sandycove is back on the market, as new pub group Dunmore seeks to revive a pub closed for years in Dún Laoghaire. More deals are expected to follow.

The US software multinational has just revealed how a simple intra-group balance sheet reorganisation with no gain in value allowed it to generate a $1.4bn tax benefit in Ireland.

New data shows how Covid has taken a problem that had been concentrated in Ireland’s urban rental markets and exported it to the rest of the country. But it has also changed the sales market too – from where people are buying to what size of property they want.

A holding company used by Davy senior staff to house their interests in the stockbroking firm has just made belated disclosures dating back 15 years. They reveal a previously unknown corporate strategy used by the broker to pay some senior staff in a tax-efficient manner.