Evelyn Kelly founded Orphan Drug Consulting five years ago. She's grown the company quickly, helping launch more than 100 products globally through four international offices. But the field of orphan drugs is deep with challenges of equitable access and unhappy outcomes.
Dynamic Retail Services designs and builds retail installations across the world for international brands like Verizon and Jaguar. Now its Irish operation is facing an existential threat from a German company trying to wind it up. The row has sparked three sets of legal proceedings in Ireland so far this year.
The former chief executive of the HSE is following a now well-trodden path from the public to the private sector. EY, which provided services to the state during the pandemic, said details about which clients or what projects he will be involved with are not yet confirmed.
Less than a decade ago, Elverys Sports almost went under. Now, despite shutting stores and reducing headcount, it is increasing both revenues and profits. An examination of its accounts over a six-year period shows how it did it.
Should we expect something like the heady days of the late 90s when Iona Technologies and Baltimore Technologies were both flying high on New York’s NASDAQ? Or will a small number of US tech giants outmuscle homegrown innovation and entrepreneurship?
If Ireland wants to get over the looming transition to an older population, it should look at how it embraces automation technologies such as robotics and AI.
An offshoot of Rusal, the parent company of Aughinish Alumina, is suing the Irish subsidiary of the Russian GTLK group for $20 million arising from the breakdown of a shipping deal, seemingly as a result of western sanctions.
The aim was to build much-needed social housing. But were millions in Immigrant Investor Programme funds diverted to act as complex debt securities for an investment company? That is the claim made against an offshoot of Focus Capital in a highly contested breach of contract court dispute.
AI, machine learning, and 240 recruiters: the recruitment industry is going through constant change. What hasn’t changed is the personal touch. I am making no plans to retire just yet.
The struggles for all Ireland managers are real but those who live here deal with the suffocating nature of the world of Irish football.
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