“Brendan Comiskey didn’t fail and this wasn’t about failure. This was about a cover-up”

Dalata has closed 29 of its 44 hotels and laid off 3,500 workers. Its chief executive Pat McCann says the hard decisions were sad but unavoidable, and that the company will be ready when the lockdown ends.

Having spent a decade dealing with Nama, banks and vulture funds, Frankie Whelehan has reassessed both his life and his business choices. Now debt-averse, the country’s biggest boomtime hotelier is happy with his two family-owned hotels. But will Covid-19 end his newfound peace?

With tourism at a standstill, the global travel publisher is closing down offices around the world. Yet there are no plans so far to axe its relatively new Irish office, where the company's international intellectual property rights are held – and taxed.

Daqri opened its European HQ in 2015 in Dublin as it rode the wave of momentum around augmented reality. Five years later, the company has collapsed and its presence here ended. Just what happened and what does it say about future AR trends?

From unassuming offices in north Co Dublin, Ekco has been growing into a bespoke cloud computing provider with large corporates including CPL and Heineken among its clients. Its co-founders Eoin Blacklock and Jonathan Crowe discuss acquisitions, taking on Amazon and anticipating Covid-19.

Although he believes Ireland is better placed to weather this crisis than the last, Patrick Honohan has concerns about the potential impact of a prolonged downturn on domestic banks and SMEs.

While political agitation focuses on the already agreed target of a 7% annual cut in greenhouse gas emissions for the next decade, the real question is whether the next Government will agree to spend Covid-19 recovery funds in a way that makes low-carbon technologies more attractive than increasingly cheap fossil fuels.

Just weeks after landing a senior role at the respected consultancy firm, Paramvir Singh Gill lost his job. The company said he was not qualified for the role, but the worker claimed it was down to his faith.

Having just closed a €10m funding round, Glofox, the Irish gym management software firm, plans to invest when many of its rivals are scrambling. But its cofounder Conor O’Loughlin says that the fitness industry will have to change as a result of the current crisis.

Now more than ever, the country needs strong banks. Companies are relying on them for cash to tide them over. But their share price has collapsed in recent weeks, and market sentiment is not great. So, are they in a position to help?