In this podcast, Colm Tóibín talks to Dion Fanning about anxiety and the pandemic, the precision of a novelist and why Michael D Higgins couldn't attend a partition commemoration.
Conor McGregor is eyeing up his third pub but this time it looks like Dún Laoghaire, not Dublin 12. The world’s highest-paid athlete continues to build his business interests.
Continuing from yesterday: an analysis of 50 of the most valuable private companies in Ireland, based on their business and industry fundamentals.
Lobby groups have campaigned for a universal basic income for years. Now, it looks like a pilot programme will be announced in this year’s Budget. Arts workers are the obvious choice to trial it over the next three years, but some elements of the anticipated pilot still need to be ironed out.
How to value a company from the ground up. What you need, what the valuation tells you, and what it misses.
There is plenty of excitement about Wayflyer - from talk of a potential billion-dollar valuation to rumblings of an imminent game-changing debt raise. But CEO Aidan Corbett is more concerned about maintaining the astonishing growth of the Irish e-commerce financier.
Based on a detailed analysis of earnings, debt, reinvestment, industry and operational risk, this is the first part of The Currency's valuation of 50 of the most valuable privately owned companies in Ireland.
After building the Web Summit event into a formidable networking and deal-making machine, co-founders Paddy Cosgrave and David Kelly branched into venture capital. This is how and why they fell out.
DirectRoute lost €8.4m in toll revenue from Cork and Limerick motorways last year as travel restrictions hit traffic. Taxpayers have covered more than half of it for the benefit of its overseas investors.
Michael Lillis has led an extraordinary life from his role as a civil servant to his period as a key executive with Guinness Peat Aviation. There were audiences with the pope, Franco and Castro and a lot more in between.
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