The modern game is about adapting to the opposition, to the laws, to the ref, to the weather, to injuries, to who's in form, and, above all, to have belief in, and a collective understanding of, what sort of team you want to be.
The pubs that challenged FBD's stance on Covid-related business interruption cover were vindicated by the High Court. Now there is the tricky business of assessing losses, particularly around two big sticking points: partial pub closures and legal costs.
The family-owned Gowan Group distributes cars, invests in property and the stock market and has a massive kitchen and domestic appliances business. It has just posted results and provided commentary on Covid-19.
Michael Cosgrave is one of Ireland’s most successful developers. Kevin Flynn leads one of the country’s most successful contracting businesses. Michael O’Shea runs a local construction company in Cork. All are concerned about the impact of the lockdown on the sector.
Bauer Media is making a bold bet that it can make much more from Irish radio than Communicorp has so far been able to. To justify the price it has paid, it's going to have to triple the company's profits.
As businessman Denis O’Brien exits the Irish media sector he hits out at Sinn Féin, the HSE, and social media trolls. He also says Dublin is a “Zanussi washing machine” for multinational profits.
Former rugby international Peter Clohessy has been given a six-month window to save the family home from being sold by bankruptcy officials.
Glanbia built an empire by transforming the by-products of cheese into high-tech sports and dieting foods, then saw the whole edifice wobble. As the pandemic decimates its profits, the humble cheddar is back to prop up the group.
At the height of the crash ten years ago, Ian Kehoe took four of the country’s most prominent liquidators to lunch. A decade later, they agreed to come together once again to talk about the current crisis and to offer their outlook on the sectors worst impacted.
After blocking an examinership of the business last December, the majority shareholder in Broderick’s is carrying out a review that could lead to the sale of some or all of it.
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