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This café owner has turned a Facebook group into a recruitment agency for baristas

First Draft Coffee’s Ger O’Donohoe wants to help legitimise ‘coffee as a career’.

  • 3 min read
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How you can start 'future proofing' your business for 2018... and beyond

Colette Quinn

Colette Quinn

Managing Director, Real Insights

‘Tis the season for making long-term plans.

  • 4 min read
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  • food and drink

The company behind Cadbury has been told to give its Dublin workers a pay hike

Mondelez workers at the company’s Coolock factory briefly went on strike last year.

  • 3 min read
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'Three years ago, we hadn't an arse in our trousers': This Waterford gin maker has raised €1m

Blackwater Distillery is moving into a new facility in Ballyduff.

  • 3 min read
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Why it's time for all Irish firms to start taking new data protection laws seriously

Ivan O'Brien

Ivan O'Brien

Partner, EY Ireland

The deadline for GDPR compliance is looming – and not being prepared isn’t an option.

  • 6 min read
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  • food and drink

'My cancer gave me a life check': Bobby Kerr on why he left Insomnia Coffee

It was hard for the businessman to step away from the company he spent 20 years building.

  • 7 min read
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  • building and property

'People should fight': Cork locals to protest today against plans for mass evictions

The owners of the Leeside Apartments say they will substantially refurbish the block.

  • 4 min read
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'I shed a few tears that first weekend. We thought it'd be quiet but the restaurant was rammed'

Natalie McCambridge

Natalie McCambridge

General Manager, McCambridge's

Natalie McCambridge talks about coming home to run the her family’s business in the heart of Galway.

  • 8 min read
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  • building and property

Two firms linked to famous developers are at loggerheads over land at Dublin's south docks

A dispute between companies connected with Pat Crean and Johnny Ronan has come before the courts.

  • 3 min read
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The former head of Topaz has plans to build a six-storey 'contemporary hotel' in Donnybrook

The 78-bedroom development is being planned by Smiles dental founder Emmet O’Neill.

  • 3 min read
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INM's print distribution wing has bought a well-known school supplies firm

Newspread’s acquisition of Supreme Stationery was cleared by the competition watchdog.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property

One of Ireland's biggest landlords has snapped up more than 100 Dublin apartments

Kennedy Wilson is spending €45m to buy the homes in the city’s north docks.

  • 2 min read
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  • Work

Ryanair will recognise unions for first time in its history in bid to avert Christmas strikes

Pilots in Ireland, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Spain have planned industrial action.

  • 3 min read
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  • Work

A deal has been struck to save two big Galway hotels from closing down

Some 330 jobs have been saved at seven companies owned by businessman Gerry Barrett.

  • 3 min read
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How the 'little things' can help startup founders look after their mental health

Krystian Fikert

Krystian Fikert

CEO, MyMind

This social entrepreneur delivers a masterclass in coping with stress.

  • 5 min read
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  • Work

Union bosses have written to the government to call out 'clear hypocrisy from a state beneficiary'

The letter relates to a recent Labour Court dispute over redundancy packages offered by Capita.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property

Vacant shops could be converted into housing without planning permission under new rules

Housing minister Eoghan Murphy claims the move will ‘breathe life into inner-core urban areas’.

  • 2 min read
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'Odd and absurd': Declan Ganley denies he commissioned a dossier about Denis O'Brien

The Galway businessman was named in court documents relating to a case against PR firm Red Flag.

  • 4 min read
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  • food and drink

'It's a bittersweet day for me': Bobby Kerr is leaving his Insomnia coffee business

Over the last 20 years he has built the company into one of Ireland’s biggest coffee chains.

  • 2 min read
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Why this Dublin woman left Melbourne to start a flower business with her in-laws

As part of our How My Business Works series, we profile Flowers Made Easy.

  • 7 min read
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