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State’s higher education awarding body landed with €450,000 tax bill

Quality and Qualifications Ireland incorrectly treated external assessors as self-employed contractors for tax purposes. It needed extra funding from its parent department to settle the six-figure tax bill.
Niall Sargent
25th Feb, 2026 - 2 min read

Elkstone’s next chapter: New CEO Joe Bergin targets growth across venture and real estate

The new CEO of Elkstone sets out plans for its second venture fund and to ramp up delivery of apartments and student beds, as Alan Merriman steps back from the chief executive role.

Tom Lyons
24th Feb, 2026 - 4 min read

Nine months after Pathfinder report on aviation: What’s been the response?

From lifting the passenger cap to credit unions funding pilot training, there has been progress. But more could be done and Declan Ryan says civil servants in the Republic could “adopt a more constructive attitude to the policy debate".
Tom Lyons
24th Feb, 2026 - 3 min read

From $12bn IP deal to $11.6bn payout: How AbbVie’s Irish arm availed of a lucrative tax loop

The transaction reflects that Allergan Pharmaceuticals International became a major profit centre for the US pharma group in 2020, after funding intellectual property assets with intercompany debt that has now been cancelled.
Thomas Hubert
24th Feb, 2026 - 3 min read

British Airways CEO Sean Doyle: “Slowly but surely, you become addicted to the industry”

The CEO of the British flag carrier speaks to about growing up in Youghal, Co Cork, overseeing a £7bn transformation plan, the rise of Chinese manufacturers and why Ireland needs to improve at "actually getting things done".
Michael Cogley
24th Feb, 2026 - 21 min read

The big crunch: Creditors to vie for Ruairí Kelleher’s assets in receivership action

The former CEO and director of payroll platform UKG One View (previously Immedis) has been besieged by debt claims of around €22m in recent years.
Francesca Comyn
23rd Feb, 2026 - 3 min read

The fundraising tactic AI startups are using to juice valuations

The race to get into hot AI startups has led to unequal deals for investors, raising questions about how much companies are really worth, writes Angel Au-Yeung, The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
23rd Feb, 2026 - 4 min read

Four years into the war, “I see more interest in Ukraine than I have to date”

US banker Alex McWhorter has headed Citi’s Ukrainian business since 2018. Having turned its vault into a bomb shelter, the bank is now growing along with the country’s economy – but real prosperity depends on peace.
Thomas Hubert
23rd Feb, 2026 - 11 min read

“The brief was very simple… to get us up on our own two feet and not be totally reliant on government agencies”

Ian Kehoe
11th Feb, 2026

Every March, St Patrick’s Day transforms Dublin — but few people know the man helping to turn a single parade into one of Ireland’s biggest cultural and economic events. Richard Tierney is the CEO of St Patrick’s Festival, the organisation behind Ireland’s national celebration. In thispodcast with Ian Kehoe, Tierney explains how the festival has evolved into a multi-day, citywide programme — with free daytime events, night-time culture and thousands of participants — while still carrying the weight of national identity at home and abroad. Coming from a background in live entertainment and major commercial deals, Tierney was brought in with a clear brief: make the festival financially sustainable without losing its cultural soul.

Top Voices

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.
Joe Gill
23rd Feb, 2026 - 4 min read

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.

Ian Kehoe
22nd Feb, 2026 - 5 min read

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.
Brett Igoe
21st Feb, 2026 - 5 min read

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.

Anne Harris
21st Feb, 2026 - 6 min read

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.

John Looby
20th Feb, 2026 - 3 min read

I wanted Hollywood to accept me. So I made the biggest mistake of my career

In an exclusive book excerpt, the former CEO of Sony Entertainment Michael Lynton opens up about his role in unleashing one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history, writes The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
19th Feb, 2026 - 8 min read

SME Ireland still plays an upbeat part in the world’s strange symphony

As multinationals continue to support the domestic economy, one must wonder – when will cost-of-living concerns become a drag on Irish businesses' growth?
Stuart Fitzgerald
19th Feb, 2026 - 4 min read

Colm McCarthy: The cost of neutrality is about to soar

We like to think neutrality keeps costs down and choices simple. In a Europe that’s rearming at speed, that assumption is starting to look expensive.
Colm McCarthy
18th Feb, 2026 - 6 min read

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