The pressure is now red-hot inside Davy to take action against current executives who were involved in the "Davy 16" transaction, which caused the stockbroker to be branded as acting “recklessly” by the Central Bank and fined €4.1 million.
The Cheltenham Festival later this month will conclude arguably the worst 12 months horse racing has endured. The images of Gordon Elliott and jockey Rob James sitting on dead horses have rocked the sport around the globe at the worst possible time.
After selling his radio station empire, O’Brien now sells a cloud company to Ekco – one of Ireland’s fastest-growing technology companies.
The pandemic has a devastating effect on many areas of Irish life, but sport, especially indoor sport, has been badly hit. Nobody knows, as Ireland emerges from the crisis, what these sports will look like in the future.
The state’s debt agency has written to Davy, a long-term advisor on Irish government bonds, outlining its concerns following a damning Central Bank investigation into the broker.
Despite the absence of fans in sports arenas, Irish company Future Ticketing continues to grow in lockdown, sealing two new deals and working through more in the pipeline.
For PTSB, getting hold of Ulster Bank's loan book could be "transformational". Why should its 75% owner, the government, fund the deal? And why is PTSB the front runner to buy the loans?
Proponents of international rules to get tech giants to pay tax where their customers are, rather than in hubs like Ireland, have gathered strong momentum in recent weeks.
Within hours of agreeing to sell his Anglo bonds, Patrick Kearney knew something was wrong. But it was too late. Driven by personal gain, a group of 16 people at Davy had secretly pulled off a financial coup. But who were they, and how did the deal come together?
Liam Carroll passed away on Tuesday. For a period before the financial crash eroded his €5bn property empire, he was perhaps the country’s biggest developer, building close to 9,000 apartments. He was personally low-profile, but his imprint remains all over our capital.
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