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  • insights and opinion
  • policy and economy
  • tourism and transport

Poll: Do you think the planned €850m Cork-Limerick motorway is a good idea?

Leo Varadkar says it ‘makes sense’ – but others argue it will hinder growth in second-tier cities.

  • 2 min read
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  • Financial Services

Here's what we know so far about the plan to sell Ireland's oldest stockbroker

Goodbody looks like it will be snapped up by a Chinese buyer in a €100m deal.

  • 3 min read
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  • Financial Services

The former chairman of Irish Nationwide has been given a €20,000 fine

The lender’s collapse cost taxpayers an estimated €5.4 billion.

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

Done deal for Cork's new convention centre - but it could cost the taxpayer more money

Reports say the State is to invest another €10 million on top of the €20 million already pledged.

  • 3 min read
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  • retail and services
  • tourism and transport
  • Work

'There's a lack of respect for the sector': Trucking firms need more foreign drivers to fill staff gaps

Too few young drivers are coming into the industry due to poor policies, officials say.

  • 5 min read
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  • retail and services

Irish consumers haven't felt this upbeat for nearly 20 years

New survey results show people expect their finances to improve.

  • 3 min read
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  • media and marketing
  • Startups and tech

Four years after its News Corp takeover, Storyful is going through a painful adolescence

The Irish company’s latest products are designed to protect CEOs from online storms.

  • 6 min read
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If a supermarket can sell bananas through storytelling, so can you - here's how

Jack Murray

Jack Murray

CEO and founder, All Good Tales

We’re all hardwired to tell stories, but for some reason we don’t use them for sales.

  • 5 min read
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  • building and property

Feuds between telcos and councils are fuelling Ireland's mobile coverage black spots

New mobile infrastructure projects across the country are stuck in planning limbo.

  • 6 min read
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  • tourism and transport

Why Emirates' flagship 'superjumbo' jets won't be coming to Ireland any time soon

The A380′s biggest operator wants to bring the plane to Dublin, but there’s a problem – or four.

  • 5 min read
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  • building and property

Whatever happened to... a €180m plan to regenerate a troubled Dublin flat complex?

Developer Bernard McNamara was to rebuild the O’Devaney Gardens during the boom.

  • 5 min read
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Some see apprenticeships as 'settling for less', but they'll fix youth unemployment

Mouna Prenty

Mouna Prenty

CEO, Seetec Ireland

When it comes to providing hands-on training for young people, we’re falling behind.

  • 5 min read
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  • food and drink

'We can't afford to give a pub €5,000': Craft producers hit out at exclusive drinks deals

Many craft drinks producers say sweeteners offered by big companies are locking them out.

  • 6 min read
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'Our biggest challenge is being a national company while based in Sligo'

Lorraine Gribbons

Lorraine Gribbons

Managing Director, Fastcom

Lorraine Gribbons talks about her jump into the hot seat and the difficulties of working out west.

  • 6 min read
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  • Financial Services
  • retail and services

Charities are hunting for €3.8m missing after the collapse of a detained Irish man's firm

The company, Pembroke Dynamic, handled donated funds for outfits including the Red Cross.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property
  • food and drink

'A major loss for the midlands': A €138m Westmeath whiskey project has been blocked

The local council refused permission over fears the development would ‘scar’ the landscape.

  • 3 min read
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  • media and marketing
  • Startups and tech

The tale of the coffee date where Ray Nolan predicted how and when Storyful would be sold

The man who made a fortune from selling Hostelworld had an eerily accurate prognosis.

  • 4 min read
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  • Financial Services
  • Startups and tech

Meet the Dublin startup that's trying to save accountants drowning in paperwork

As part of our weekly Startup Spotlight series, we profile Circit.

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

These were the biggest hotel deals of 2017

Last year was quiet compared to 2016′s bonanza.

  • 3 min read
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  • Sports
  • Startups and tech

A Laois man just sold his cybersecurity firm to the owner of NFL's Miami Dolphins

Stephen M Ross’s VC firm snapped up Aidan Kehoe’s Oxford Solutions for $30m.

  • 2 min read
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