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“The scale of the opportunity is large”: Kota is going deep in the UK market

The Dublin insurance tech start-up has partnered with insurer Vitality as it expands its presence in the British market and eyes the rest of Europe.
Jonathan Keane
18th Apr, 2024 - 3 min read

Irelandia-backed Skyports raises $110m to develop air taxi and drone services

The Spanish-headquartered ACS Group has become the biggest investor in drone and vertiport developer Skyports, which has been backed by Irish-owned Irelandia since 2019.
Tom Lyons
17th Apr, 2024 - 2 min read

“There’s a reason it costs €32.99”: How an Irish entrepreneur cashes in on the clean beauty business

Dragons' Den contestant Noelle O’Connor is breaking into the American beauty market with a range of products that are ultra green and guilt-free.
Kate Demolder
17th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

“Short-sighted” move: Council blocks novel airport parking project

With Metrolink over a decade away, more car spaces is the only short-term option to tackle parking pressure at Dublin Airport. But recent decisions from local and national authorities are not helping matters.

Niall Sargent
17th Apr, 2024 - 3 min read

More than a bun fight: Ex-Aryzta execs line up to take action

In 2020, investors at the Swiss-Irish baking multinational revolted and the senior management team departed in their droves. Now four of its top ex-executives are suing the group.
Francesca Comyn
16th Apr, 2024 - 2 min read

Glenveagh judgment: An alleged “shakedown”, serial housing objections by a “contrived pseudonym”, and a failed claim of Slapp

The developer has made extraordinary allegations against two serial objectors to 16 housing projects.
Tom Lyons
16th Apr, 2024 - 6 min read

“There is nobody else ahead of us”: GridBeyond’s €52m bet to deliver zero-carbon power

The Dublin company is raising fresh funds at a nine-figure valuation. Its CEO Michael Phelan says it is now targeting profitability by helping customers remove fossil fuels from their electricity as well as navigating power markets.
Thomas Hubert
16th Apr, 2024 - 8 min read

Glanbia is spending $355m on an acquisition. What does it say about its M&A path?

Once completed, the food giant’s deal for US firm Flavor Producers will be its biggest ever and deepens its focus on its ingredients business. A similar-sized deal for SlimFast six years ago offers a cautionary tale.
Jonathan Keane
15th Apr, 2024 - 3 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 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

Ronan Lyons: Costs efficiency should be the metric that will see the State hit housing targets

Simon Harris has promised that his Government will build 250,000 new homes over the next five years. However, many, many more are needed and the taoiseach must make his strategy and tactics very clear.
Ronan Lyons
16th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

How some Irish businesses become exceptions to the dual-economy rule: Rewinding the week that was

Deals announced by Winthrop and Strong Roots on Thursday built a bridge between indigenous businesses struggling in the face of rising costs and the world of high-flying multinationals.

Thomas Hubert
14th Apr, 2024 - 4 min read

Typically untypical: Ronan O’Gara and the art of effective leadership

Ronan O’Gara’s coaching ethos is a fusion of strategic brilliance, motivational strength, and psychological insight. Both his career trajectory and his methodologies echo the depth and, sometimes, the cunning that Machiavelli advocated for effective leadership. Leinster beware.

Brett Igoe
13th Apr, 2024 - 6 min read

A manager who takes teams to the next level and knows the route to glory

Since becoming Derry manager, Micky Harte has roused the team to new heights and All-Ireland aspirations. The team’s success and style of play should energise other counties to dream big too.
Paul Flynn
13th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Short-term surge, long-term risks: What the gold price is telling us about the world

At first sight, gold may look overvalued after recent price hikes. When you consider the trajectory of interest rates and mounting geopolitical risks, however, it could just be the start.
Peter Kinsella
12th Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

A nation once again? It won’t be about money or identity, but productivity

Integrating Northern Ireland would cost the Republic a lot of money, but establishing the nature of the transformation to be paid for is more likely to cause difficulty than the final amount involved.
Stephen Kinsella
11th Apr, 2024 - 6 min read

Close to brutal: Tommie Gorman watches as two political beasts quietly exit the international stage

The final meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council that included Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney took place on Monday in Armagh. All the major players from both side of the border were there. But two of them won’t be back.
Tommie Gorman
10th Apr, 2024 - 7 min read

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