“The level of uncertainty that’s there is really, really high because people can’t predict”

The trade agreement between the EU and the UK is just days old, and supply chains are already facing disruption even as freight traffic remains low following holidays and pre-Brexit stockpiling. And this is just the start.

Tim Cummins is the CEO of logistics, sales and marketing company Primeline. Normally publicity shy, Cummins spoke to The Currency about joining the business and managing supply chains through Brexit and Covid-19.

He restored it. Then he tried to sell it. Now, Michael Flatley, the Irish-American dancer, has retained planning consultants to work with Cork County Council on development opportunities for the 150-acre estate.

Cork-based property investor Henry Gwyn-Jones claims he was duped out of millions in a business deal to buy a Bulgarian shopping centre. But a recent High Court order means he now has to pay the man he blames for his losses.

The IDA is developing 19 advanced building solutions in regional locations. CEO Martin Shanahan explains the plan, and also talks about the business of luring FDI to Ireland in the midst of a global pandemic.

With more and more entrepreneurs emerging on the distilling market, Elliot Hughes talks to The Currency on how he finances one of the most popular distilleries in Ireland, why he is glad there is more competition in the industry and his company’s most recent cask programme.

Eddie O’Connor sold Airtricity for €1.8 billion and could soon turn Mainstream Power into another renewables unicorn. His new business, SuperNode, is no longer about energy production – instead, it is a bet on its trans-European transportation.

A dispute involving the siblings that own the Ashling Hotel in Dublin and the Imperial Hotel in Galway has revealed claims involving the alleged misuse of company funds, a 5th Avenue apartment in New York, boardroom rancour and an irrevocable breakdown in relations.

Tommy Higgins pioneered the Irish ticketing industry and was an original backer of Riverdance. When he sold his business to Ticketmaster, he became the giant's European boss. He talks about the “torture” of competition probes and the economics of entertainment.

Frank Fitzgibbon co-founded The Sunday Business Post and edited The Sunday Times in Ireland for 15 years. He talks about clashing with tycoons, breaking the FAI story, the future of the media, draconian libel laws and who he thinks is Ireland’s best business leader.