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  • resource and energy

Energia's owner is planning to close two power plants in Dublin

Viridian’s two Huntstown facilities could be shuttered by the end of May.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property

Two building giants battling over pyrite 'should make sure homeowners are paid first'

Ballymore Group is suing Ireland’s biggest company, CRH.

  • 2 min read
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  • insights and opinion
  • policy and economy

Poll: Should older people pay higher taxes to support young workers?

The IMF’s boss says such a measure could help close Europe’s generational divide.

  • 1 min read
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  • food and drink

Greencore is selling up the remnants of its troublesome UK desserts business

The firm’s Hull branch made chilled desserts for supermarket Marks and Spencer.

  • 3 min read
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  • food and drink
  • policy and economy

Hoteliers say stricter rules on a cancer-causing food substance would be 'unworkable'

EU rules will be rolled out in April to clamp down on acrylamide, which is found in chips.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property

One of Ireland's wealthiest families is building a leisure centre on the Wexford seafront

Two other local operators have been accused of trying to stall the plan.

  • 3 min read
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5 ways to stop your mind from wandering during the workday

Rasmus Hougaard

Rasmus Hougaard

MD, the Potential Project

Our brains haven’t been designed to cope with floods of information.

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

How Dealz's 'build now, ask later' record is slowly catching up with it

The British-owned discount retailer is locked in another planning dispute, this time over its Wexford store.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property

A co-op housing group wants to build projects in south Dublin and border counties

It also hopes to source land for social rental accommodation in the midlands and west.

  • 3 min read
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  • Startups and tech

A Dublin startup has raised millions to corner the data protection training market

Brendan Kavanagh’s HiUP has bagged a €3.5 million round of investment.

  • 3 min read
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Why Ireland has a gender pension gap problem - and how we can start to fix it

Stephen Gillick

Stephen Gillick

Partner, Mason Hayes & Curran

In retirement, men are nearly 40% financially better off than women.

  • 5 min read
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  • Financial Services

Competition officials are virtually powerless to police a €700m car loan market

The UK is worried about sub-prime lending in the industry, so Ireland is taking a closer look.

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

'They know the gun's to the head': Vexatious objectors accused of stalling major building plans

The head of the construction lobby says some developers are paying people to drop complaints.

  • 4 min read
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'I lost my marriage, my car and my home, but I kept going. Failure wasn't an option'

Lorraine Mulligan

Lorraine Mulligan

Owner, Remax Celbridge

This real estate auctioneer talks about how she battled through the recession.

  • 9 min read
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  • Work

A worker sacked after making a discrimination claim has been awarded €25,000

Katarzyna Woznickzka worked for Couverture, a Dublin desserts company.

  • 3 min read
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  • Startups and tech

One of Limerick's most promising software firms has splashed out to buy a US rival

AMCS could spend more than €5m on Brady Recycling.

  • 2 min read
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  • policy and economy

Ireland's corporate tax rate was branded 'a joke' and 'stealing' at Davos

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe had to fend off some fierce criticism at the global gathering.

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

A one-time hotel bigwig is rebuilding his empire with this Dublin guesthouse

Choice Hotel Group founder Frankie Whelehan has permission for a new 40-bed hotel.

  • 3 min read
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  • health and education
  • Startups and tech

This doctor and serial entrepreneur has a plan to get rid of paper medical records

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

  • 5 min read
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  • Work

Solas ordered to pay €20,000 to a 60-year-old worker asked if he should 'take it easy'

The state training body has carried out research on difficulties facing older people.

  • 3 min read
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