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Receiver of Ronan Group company bids to quash €315,000 vacant site levy

Previous appeals failed to overturn demands for payment from Dublin City Council on the Appian Way site in Ranelagh. Will this one fare any better?
Niall Sargent
23rd Apr, 2024 - 3 min read

Accenture Song’s Richard Carr: “AI is about the reinvention of work and how we behave as human beings”

Accenture Song solves customer problems using a unique range of creative skillsets. Richard Carr, managing director in Ireland, is tasked with leading the business in a time of unprecedented change.

Tom Lyons
23rd Apr, 2024 - 10 min read

A “generational challenge” to attract new entrants: The rationale for the merger of two accountancy bodies

The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland is set to join forces with Chartered Accountants Ireland. The proposed scheme “offers the best pathway forward for the future”, the Commercial Court heard on Monday.
Francesca Comyn
22nd Apr, 2024 - 2 min read

International law firms transformed the Irish market: Here’s where they got their talent

As a period of flux for the Irish legal services market begins to settle, The Currency looks at how the international entrants set about building their teams.
Francesca Comyn
22nd Apr, 2024 - 8 min read

CCPC contacts 26 influencers over commercial content after EU sweep 

The Commission screened the social media accounts of 576 influencers for potential breaches of consumer protection rules. Now the consumer protection authority here is taking further action.

Niall Sargent
22nd Apr, 2024 - 2 min read

One of the country’s most exclusive hotel and golf resorts is being put up for sale

The owner of the Mount Juliet hotel and golf resort in Co Kilkenny has appointed JLL Ireland to sell the property, the latest in a string of high-end hotel assets to come on the market.

Tom Lyons
19th Apr, 2024 - 1 min read

Cork City Council “looking at options” to repair historic English Market roof

Traders in the English Market are concerned about leaks in the roof of the iconic food hall. Cork City Council (CCC) is looking at how best to repair the roof without closing the market, and how to fund it.
Tom Lyons
19th Apr, 2024 - 1 min read

The State’s hardest job: KPMG’s Michele Connolly on the delivery of complex infrastructure projects

Ireland is a wealthy nation but its track record on producing major infrastructural projects is mixed. Who are the people who will build the future nation?
Sean Keyes
19th Apr, 2024 - 8 min read

“I don’t think Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams had any appetite for violence at all”

Dion Fanning
30th Mar, 2024

In his book, Stakeknife’s Dirty War, the former H-Block prisoner, Richard O’Rawe, provides the inside story on Freddie Scappaticci. In an interview with Dion Fanning, he explores the many lives of Scappaticci, his own experience as a prisoner during the hunger strikes, and his views on Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams as they pursued peace, viewed as “treachery in a pristine sense” by many republicans.

Top Voices

As the tax debt warehouse is dismantled, there will be a clamour for forgiveness. It should be ignored

When you look at the profile of the remaining debt in the warehouse, the breakdown of the companies that owe it, and the national insolvency trends over a sustained period, it is clear there is no need for write-downs or an amnesty on the €1.65bn in the warehouse.

Ian Kehoe
23rd Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Talent is the lifeblood of recruitment. It’s usually there, it just needs to be discovered

People who spend their lives as a recruiter know how to search under the surface to uncover qualities even the candidate doesn’t know they possess.
Paul McArdle
22nd Apr, 2024 - 4 min read

A familiar tax tiff for Harris at first EU summit: Rewinding the week that was

Separate EU attempts at corporation tax harmonisation and capital markets integration are nothing new. The suggestion that they might be linked is, but it didn’t seem to stick.
Thomas Hubert
21st Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Factions and fatalism: Dion Fanning on the FAI’s search for meaning, a CEO and a manager

Jonathan Hill’s time as FAI CEO will be remembered for a payments controversy and the failure to secure a national manager. But the dysfunction that has long shaped - and derailed - the organisation is deep-rooted and culturally embedded.
Dion Fanning
20th Apr, 2024 - 8 min read

Sam Smyth: Televised racism, DNA and unpaid compensation tower over the death of OJ Simpson

The trial of NFL football hero OJ Simpson was one of biggest stories from America in the past 30 years. His death last week leaves many dark areas around the crimes he was never found guilty of having committed.
Sam Smyth
20th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Energy efficiency saving millions but real reward of emissions fall slow to fruit

New data points to momentum in reducing public sector energy emissions, but fossil fuel use is still high. Private firms face similar challenges as efficiency gains come slow. Will progress come too late?
Niall Sargent
19th Apr, 2024 - 6 min read

Promises, promises: Election 2025 (?) has started and it will colour everything

The real question, however, is what is to be done about health? Health’s budget will continue to balloon without better data on what is being spent where and for what outcome.

Stephen Kinsella
18th Apr, 2024 - 6 min read

As elections near, MEPs take stock of European SME policy

The new taoiseach has promised to help struggling indigenous companies but the state of EU policies for small businesses shows many gaps to be bridged, writes Jonathan Keane in Brussels.
Jonathan Keane
17th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

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