The director general of the BBC and the CEO of BBC News both resigned last weekend. Peter Oborne talks to Dion Fanning about the crisis engulfing the BBC and why Donald Trump is paying attention.
Extracts from the Belfast-born author’s autobiography and its afterword, now published in English for the first time, chronicle her extraordinary journey from Ireland to fame in East Germany.
Human rights solicitor Gavin Booth testified on Friday that businessman Denis O'Brien's comments on a 2016 report on Ireland's media landscape allegedly suggesting the lawyer was in the pay of the IRA were “way below the line”.
The family business, run from Limerick, works with airlines and lessors to move aircraft engines and parts around the world and has more than €38 million in turnover.
Alan Doyle kicked off Aerlytix in 2020 in the midst of Covid challenges and aviation’s shutdown but in the last five years it has raised over €10m and is now plotting a major product expansion.
From "kill all taigs" to bias, and Roy Greenslade's IRA sympathies, day two of lawyers Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth's defamation suit against businessman Denis O'Brien covered a lot of ground.
Ireland’s critique of the EU-Mercosur trade deal is causing increasing frustration in Brussels but MEPs are taking their time to pore over the fine print on new safeguards for farmers.
He’s guarded doors in gay nightclubs, built multimillion-euro travel empires, and once rented his home to Taylor Swift. Now, entrepreneur Bob Haugh is plotting his next big journey — building his luxury travel company, OROKO.
The US-based construction businessmen already have a significant investment in the Mercantile Group, as well as several other property, housing, and renewable energy projects in Ireland.
Two Belfast human rights lawyers claim a press release issued by the businessman in response to a 2016 report they co-authored on Irish media owners wrongly implied they were in the pay of the IRA. Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan commissioned the report.
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