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  • food and drink
  • Startups and tech

A Dublin lunch-ordering startup has raised €500k to expand to new cities - but not in Ireland

Bamboo wants to prove its model in Singapore and London to attract more investors.

  • 3 min read
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  • Startups and tech

A Dún Laoghaire startup has raised $12m to roll out its home STI and health tests

Let’s Get Checked got the backing of US and Chinese investors.

  • 3 min read
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  • resource and energy

Providence has found a Chinese partner to fund its oil drilling off the Cork coast

A consortium has agreed to fund the Barryroe offshore project.

  • 3 min read
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  • Financial Services
  • policy and economy

Banks can keep using crash-era losses to avoid tax so the State can 'get back its money'

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has no plans to change the rules on ‘deferred tax assets’.

  • 3 min read
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  • Work

Here are the top 25 companies to work for in Ireland - according to employees

Computer colossus Dell came out on top for the second year in a row.

  • 2 min read
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  • food and drink
  • insights and opinion

'Never partner with first-time founders - they can't cope with the stress'

Mór Irish Gin’s Eoin Bara also talks about how he stopped emails from ruining his sleep.

  • 5 min read
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  • policy and economy
  • tourism and transport

Following one false start, 'stationless' share bikes are coming to Dublin's city centre

The council has called for operators to apply for licences to set up in the capital.

  • 3 min read
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  • Startups and tech

Irish-founded tech firm Intercom reaches unicorn status with its $1bn-plus valuation

The company’s Dublin headcount is due to swell to nearly 400 as its funding tops $240 million.

  • 2 min read
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  • Startups and tech

The Irish 'Airbnb for car parking' has just bought a Belgian rival

Parkpnp acquired Sharemypark for an undisclosed sum.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property
  • policy and economy

Ireland's chronic housing shortage is the economy's 'most pressing issue'

It is forecast to take years before new construction keeps pace with demand.

  • 3 min read
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  • insights and opinion
  • Work

Poll: Do you think asylum seekers should be allowed to fill job gaps?

Asylum seekers have been granted the right to work in Ireland – but only under strict conditions.

  • 2 min read
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  • food and drink
  • retail and services

After losing millions in a 'difficult' period, Abrakebabra's owner says it's back on track

The AIL Group blamed some of its historic losses on ‘onerous rental agreements’.

  • 3 min read
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  • Startups and tech

A Blackrock startup backed by Ryanair's ex-deputy chief is going under

Unravel Analytics has been put into liquidation after running out of time to raise enough cash.

  • 4 min read
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How to use awards to cheer-up staff and win new business

Caroline Heywood

Caroline Heywood

MD, Walsh:PR

Prizes are a brilliant, low-cost way to promote your company.

  • 5 min read
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  • policy and economy
  • tourism and transport
  • Work

The tourism trade wants to hire asylum seekers to plug skills gaps

The hospitality sector has been complaining of growing staff shortages.

  • 5 min read
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  • Startups and tech

This Irish man sees thousands of startup pitches a year - here's how to get his attention

After selling his Datahug business for €12 million, Connor Murphy is leading one of Techstars’ Berlin accelerators.

  • 6 min read
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How to successfully sell your business in 10 steps

Emma Shortt

Emma Shortt

Crowe Horwath

The culmination of a lifetime’s work, selling a company can be emotional – and time-consuming.

  • 6 min read
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  • building and property
  • tourism and transport

Ireland's biggest hotelier says Dublin needs to 'grow up like other European cities'

Dalata’s Stephen McNally believes ‘there’s no way’ the industry can deliver 11,000 more rooms by 2025.

  • 4 min read
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'I think you get one chance in a country like Ireland. It's a small place'

Hamish Urquhart

Hamish Urquhart

Founder, PartyWizz

Magician Hamish Urquhart talks about what he has learned about setting up a company in Ireland.

  • 8 min read
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  • building and property
  • retail and services

Dunnes Stores is fighting to keep a large south Dublin site off the land-hoarders list

The retailer faces thousands of euro in levies if the 5,000 sq m plot is declared a vacant site.

  • 2 min read
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