Andrea Mara: “Rich people doing bad things is fun to read” 

Patrick McCormack, the former boss of the McCauley pharmacy chain, is leading the consortium to buy Ramona Nicholas’s Cara chain from insolvency. Here, we reveal how much money is being invested, how much is being written down and the future plans for the chain.

Irish Life’s pensions business, comprised of corporate and retail pensions, is the biggest in Ireland with a 36 per cent market share. An analysis of its funds, with a total of €21 billion in assets, shows consistent underperformance against benchmarks.

Investment app MyWallSt has attracted over 3 million downloads, but it is still pre-profit. As the start-up gears up to fundraise next year, its founder Emmet Savage explains how he thinks it can train the world to invest.

Redmond McDonnell was appointed as CEO of Co Limerick-based robotics company DesignPro last year. He talks about going from a background in accounting to leading a tech company, creating bespoke robots and creating a product to help the process of Covid-19 testing.

To date 226 law firm partnerships have been authorised as LLPs in Ireland. However, Smith & Williamson say that many lawyers are still being forced to provide personal guarantees against borrowings.

The Blackrock Clinic's 2019 accounts show a growing business that's preparing for its next leg of growth. How does its performance compare with the wider industry?

Limerick developer John Shee left Ireland and moved to Nice in France in early 2014 when Nama wished to cross examine him about his assets. He is now planning to return and face the court.

The sprawling case into the disappearance of a multi-million pension fund has raised a far-reaching question: what should a court do when a party ordered to produce documents is unable to do so because of an IT meltdown?

In September, Ramona McNicholas’s chain of chemists went into examinership as creditors bayed for €3.7 million. Now another pharmacist turned businessman is getting ready to take her place.

Niall Harbison, who previously founded Lovin Media Group and co-founded digital media agency Simply Zesty, set up Big 7 Travel with Sarah Clayton-Lea. It has now been acquired by a UK firm.