Rapt Touch hoped to crack the multi-billion-euro touch-screen technology market but found things hard-going. Its biggest backer, Dermot Desmond, has now appointed a receiver to two firms behind it.
When Covid-19 hit Ireland, Arderin Distillers swapped gin production for hand gel. The Tipperary business alleges it relied on Revenue assurances, subsequently withdrawn, that it would not be liable for alcohol duty on a health product.
Lawyers are split on whether the former attorney general should resign for attending the Oireachtas golf dinner. In a scandal that has scalped a minister and an EU commissioner, will Woulfe be the last man standing?
It had once planned to become a nationwide player in Irish healthcare. But after retrenching during the economic bust, and dipping a toe in Dubai, Charter Medical is now back expanding as it moves to acquire a private hospital in the midlands.
The period cut-stone building occupied by the bookseller in Galway’s central shopping district remained closed for 11 weeks during the Covid-19 lockdown. Its landlord, a French investment firm with a growing presence in Ireland, is now taking Eason to court just six months after completing a buy-and-leaseback deal.
Flutter's first-half earnings, released today, show the company benefited on net from the shutdown – despite the pause in sports betting. The reason? An unexpected strong hand at online poker.
Hotelier Liam Griffin has built a business that has survived many crises before this pandemic. In this interview, he talks about coming through the 2008 financial crash, branching into the UK and sacrificing his love of sport to pursue a career in hospitality.
The private equity group CVC Capital has big plans for world rugby. There's a chance the money men could revolutionise the sport. But rugby needs to be clear about what it’s giving up.
Harry Cassidy made his first court appearance in Dublin this Wednesday following his detention on a European arrest warrant in Germany last May.
Pharmacist Robert Fenton left Mitchelstown to try and make it in San Francisco. Five years later he has raised $11 million to help a new breed of life science and medical device companies disrupt healthcare. Tom Lyons, who has been following his story since 2016, talks to the 33-year old founder of Qualio.
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