Less than a year after stepping down as MD of Virgin Media Television, Pat Kiely has launched BiggerStage, a media venture that aims to develop content, partnerships and talent. He outlines the business plan, and reveals the highs and lows of his time with the commercial broadcaster.
The High Court is to rule today on Cork pensioner Kathleen Dineen's High Court petition to wind up Mut 103, the Irish affiliate of collapsed German property fund Dolphin Trust, aka German Property Group (GPG). Dineen is one of around 1,800 Irish investors left out of pocket by the group's demise.
Cardinal intends to work with the company’s founder and chief executive Ken Doyle on expanding the fast-growing business, which has increased annual sales by 60% in each of the last three years.
In 2015, Tom Lyons exposed a deal involving Davy Stockbrokers and a developer client over Anglo bonds. The story led to a Central Bank investigation, which has found that a group including senior Davy executives prioritised “personal financial gain” at the expense of a client.
The use of video technology to record an oral transaction rather than through a written contract usually screams stamp duty avoidance. That is certainly the view of the tax authority, which has been battling against the use of the scheme. This is the story of how an €11m hotel tax manoeuvre came unstuck.
QuinnBet was founded three years ago by the family of Sean Quinn, the industrialist who once ranked as Ireland’s richest man. Turnover and profits are growing in the online venture and it now has a UK gambling licence, according to its chief executive.
John McCarthy is a veteran meat trader and property investor whose firm Emerald Meats won a €2.5 million damages payout against the government over beef import quotas. Having built up a multi-million business empire since the 1980s, the 63-year-old is now facing eviction from his Ballsbridge home.
Kerry-born designer Don O’Neill may have enjoyed the “Meghan effect” but it wasn’t enough to save his job in light of Covid-19. From his brownstone in New York, he talks about burn out, the vagaries of fashion and why he won't start from scratch again.
Bellingcat describes itself as an intelligence agency for the people. Its founder Eliot Higgins has delved into the darkest stories of our times from chemical warfare in Syria to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. But in the age of disinformation, the truth is even harder to find.
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.
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