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Earnings down, reasons for optimism: Glanbia’s CFO on recovering from a profit warning

The nutrition group is taking a hit this year, but not as much as previously expected, says Mark Garvey.

Thomas Hubert
14th Aug, 2025 - 9 min read

Despite its collapse, battery company Xerotech’s dispute with EV firm Ayro is rumbling on

The Galway company, which made electric battery packs for off-road vehicles, went into liquidation this year but a legal dispute with truck maker Ayro will move to trial.
Jonathan Keane
13th Aug, 2025 - 2 min read

Geospatial firm Soarvo on plans to break the UK market and become a €50m business

Alan Browne, the executive chairman of surveying firm Korec, speaks to The Currency about spinning out a new software business with sizable ambitions, working with Formula 1, and the changing face of Irish emigrants.
Michael Cogley
13th Aug, 2025 - 8 min read

$180,000-a-year NBA corporate box among reasons Gallagher parted ways with Sheridan

Presidential hopefuls Gareth Sheridan and Sean Gallagher once sat together on the board of Nutriband. We now know more about the reasons Gallagher left.
Thomas Hubert
12th Aug, 2025 - 3 min read

Third time not the charm for Cairn over plans for Blackrock complex

The developer has had two previous plans for an ambitious apartment complex on land at Chesterfield House stymied by planning delays and a legal challenge. Now, administrative errors see a third bid falter.

Niall Sargent
12th Aug, 2025 - 4 min read

Freezing order secured against builder Paddy Byrne of Victoria Homes

Liquidator Aidan Garcia has secured a freezing order against former director Paddy Byrne. He claims that Byrne owns a mansion in Kildare that is up for sale and makes other allegations about a €72,000 Range Rover, and €31,500 paid to a gun club.
Tom Lyons
12th Aug, 2025 - 5 min read

Why Ireland’s housing starts have plummeted – and what it really means

The collapse in new housing starts this year isn’t just a post-incentive hangover – it’s a sign of deeper issues in how Ireland is building, planning, and managing its long-term housing strategy.

Ronan Lyons
12th Aug, 2025 - 5 min read

How “a very real threat” to Apple jobs disappeared from ministerial records

The officials who documented a meeting between Peter Burke and the tech multinational last year believed some existing jobs were at risk. One participant has since had the record re-written.
Thomas Hubert
12th Aug, 2025 - 5 min read

“I wrote a letter for him saying he could travel. He wrote a letter for me saying I could travel and the two of us headed down that morning and we opened up”

Dion Fanning
26th Jul, 2025

Joseph Birchall has led many lives. He talks to Dion Fanning about his time at a kibbutz, his experience in Israel before October 7 and the chance he had in Hollywood.

Top Voices

Booming Bitcoin: The febezzle in plain sight

Bitcoin is not an asset. Bitcoin is not a currency. And unlike the booms of the past, Bitcoin is not the excessive hope of a plausible promise.
John Looby
14th Aug, 2025 - 3 min read

Stuart Fitzgerald: The economy is still punching above its weight, but watch for the fault lines

Ireland's economic performance is masking deeper vulnerabilities such as over-reliance on corporation tax and exposure to global shocks. Now might be time for a Plan B.
Stuart FitzGerald
13th Aug, 2025 - 5 min read

Niall Sargent: Anas al-Sharif’s killing the latest unfettered Israeli attempt to silence truth

The failure of Western politicians and the media to act on Israel’s unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza helps to perpetuate the idea that the West doesn’t care a damn about Palestinians. It is an argument that is becoming increasingly hard to argue against.
Niall Sargent
12th Aug, 2025 - 6 min read

Fake jobs, real consequences: Why Trump’s BLS purge matters

Trump’s latest firing over bad job data isn’t just political theatre — it echoes a worrying global trend.
Peter Kinsella
11th Aug, 2025 - 6 min read

How Karl Deeter built, disrupted, and sold: Rewinding the week that was

After taking a financial hit during the last crash, mortgage broker Karl Deeter reinvented himself as a fintech founder. Five years later, he’s sold his company in a multimillion-euro deal.
Ian Kehoe
10th Aug, 2025 - 4 min read

Shelly Corkery: Hilary Weston was a cherished friend and a radiant spirit

My friend Hilary Weston will be remembered for her philanthropy, elegance, intellect, and magnetic charm - but above all, she will be remembered for how she made people feel valued, inspired and embraced.

Shelly Corkery
9th Aug, 2025 - 3 min read

The political rage of Sydney Sweeney 

How an ad about denim became a debate on eugenics, the attention economy, and Republican propaganda.
Kate Demolder
9th Aug, 2025 - 5 min read

Sam Smyth: Tony Boyle fought for what he believed was right, right to the very end

Tony Boyle built a global communications business, and spent three decades battling the State and Ireland’s richest men over the mobile phone licence — a fight he was determined to win until illness claimed him this week.

Sam Smyth
9th Aug, 2025 - 6 min read

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