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Examinership refused for Greenside office development firm

Receivers were appointed to KC Capital by secured lender Oaktree over unpaid loans of around €53 million. Attempts to revive the business through examinership failed because of material non-disclosure and the group's SPV-like status.

Raves, debt and deaths: How a Wall Streeter came to own New York’s biggest club

Andrew Axelrod loaned $120 million to the Brooklyn Mirage. After it went bankrupt, he took over the joint, writes Alexander Saeedy, The Wall Street Journal.

Aviation firm in court battle with Irish company sanctioned by the UK

Thai aircraft parts dealer Siam Aero Repair Co Ltd has been sanctioned in the UK for alleged trade with Russia in its war effort. It is in the midst of a court battle with an Irish company.

Reinvention or irrelevance? The AI dilemma facing Irish CEOs

PwC’s latest CEO survey shows Irish business leaders are ambitious – but cautious. Amy Ball and Kieran Little argue the challenge is no longer experimentation with AI, but scaling it across the organisation.

“This is not just about efficiency but also pace”: Harry Goddard on joining Deloitte EMEA

With a €1.5bn investment plan over four years, Deloitte EMEA is designed to help clients scale faster, deploy technology smarter and compete in a more fragmented global economy.

Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers

More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. “I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans”, write Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson, The Wall Street Journal.

“If you’re flashy in Cork, it won’t go well”: Kevin Canning on red Ferraris and winning trust

The CEO of Quintas Capital doesn't miss a trick when it comes to talking about his private-market investment business, but the story he hasn't told, until now, is his own.

“Fox in the henhouse”: Logix Aero’s bid to revive its $820k hacker case

Irish aircraft parts trader was duped out of $820,000 when a fraudster intercepted its email exchanges with a Thai dealer. In an appeal, it argues the Thai firm bears some responsibility.

Top Voices

Tara Shine: Is your business flood-ready? 

Episodes of heavy rains like the start of this year will become more frequent. Here are six steps every company can take to prepare for the next one.

Why the EU wants to watch investment funds more closely – and where Irish resistance is headed

To roll out a European savings and investments union, the debate on centralised vs national supervision could land on a middle-ground solution. Will Ireland and Luxembourg accept it?

Some ambition, please: Peter Kinsella on the new national savings and investment scheme

As Simon Harris signals a new savings and investment strategy, it raises a serious question: Can Ireland build a culture of long-term wealth creation while penalising investors at every turn?

Joe Gill: Ireland fostered CRH, Kerry Group and Ryanair. But that ecosystem is weakening

We have drawn deeply from the FDI well for decades, and in doing so have allowed dependence – and a degree of complacency – to obscure a fundamental weakness in our industrial policy.

Bill McMorrow’s Irish legacy: Rewinding the week that was

Bill McMorrow flew into a country on financial life support and started buying. Today, as Kennedy Wilson is taken private in a €1.27bn deal, the scale of that early conviction is clear.

The blame game: When coaching deflection replaces performance analysis

From ‘intent’ to ‘keyboard warriors’ in nine days: what attribution theory tells us about recent messaging by Andy Farrell. Meanwhile, unsparing data on the performance of his Irish players presents a different picture.

Beauty and brutality: The Irish vision behind Dior and McQueen

As New York, London, Milan and Paris launch another season of fashion weeks, the spotlight falls on two Irish designers at the summit of the industry – Jonathan Anderson at Dior and Seán McGirr at Alexander McQueen.

John Looby: Stock investors should ignore the noise 

Crypto, gold, Trump, the Fed and Forex generate just some of what we should ignore, and we should concentrate instead on protecting our purchasing power.