After offices and apartments, the firehose of global capital is now pointed at Irish social housing. Who are the new owners, and what is it going to do to the Irish property market?
ECI Energy was spun out of an established family business on the northside of Dublin. Acutrace is a six-year-old prop-tech company tackling inefficiencies in commercial buildings. The two firms have just tied the knot.
In the six years since it was founded in Dublin by Sam Dennigan, plant based frozen food manufacturer Strong Roots has grown into a multi-million euro business. Now private equity investors have brought a court action claiming a €2.7m shortfall in profit targets for 2020.
Irish brass-plate companies have become a central plank in the structures used by vulture funds to swoop in on Mediterranean distressed debt. An investigation into Cerberus reveals how this extends to dealings in tens of thousands of foreclosed properties.
Fine Gael’s Noel Rock was just 32 when he lost his seat – and his job – at the last election. He regrouped and has just launched a new consulting business. He has already snapped up his first five clients.
The Brazen Head has served everyone from Michael Collins to the Dubliners. And in a show of confidence in the hospitality sector, it is now being sold for €15 million.
How did the football clubs who planned the Super League get it so wrong? Stephen Kinsella, Sean Keyes and Dion Fanning discuss an extraordinary week in football and why the 12 club owners should have studied John D Rockefeller.
Derek Scally's new book examines what it was in Ireland that produced Irish Catholicism. He talked to Dion Fanning about Ireland and the Church.
Jones Engineering was forced to hire cybersecurity experts to fight the attack against its IT systems. The €400m turnover company continues to operate as normal.
Hibernia Reit has a problem: the stock market doesn't value its offices as highly as independent auctioneers do. There's a 35 per cent gap between the two numbers. In that gap, there's a space for a someone to make money by stripping it down for parts.
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