'In the recession, people asked us to park round back. They didn't want neighbours to see'
Mark O’Loughlin also talks about people laughing at his business idea to sell synthetic grass in Ireland.
Flat-pack king Ikea sold more than €160m worth of furniture in lreland this year
Turnover at the local wing of the Scandinavian giant grew by 10%.
US colossus Medtronic has bought a small Galway medical device maker for $45m
Crospon develops devices for treating gastrointestinal problems.
How to deal with bad online reviews - and turn the haters into fans
This communications guru delivers a masterclass in how to handle negative comments online.
Competition watchdog: 'There's no evidence of a banking cartel in Ireland'
But the CCPC hasn’t ruled out the possibility banks colluded over the tracker mortgage scandal.
One of Ireland's biggest developers says it may never repay its €120m debt
Gannon Homes was founded by prominent Celtic Tiger builder Gerry Gannon.
Inglot Ireland plunged into the red last year after opening new stores
The Westmeath-based franchise of the cosmetics brand recently opened a unit in the UK.
Six years on, a thousand victims of an Irish Ponzi scheme still await compensation
Custom House Capital misused more than €50 million that belonged to its clients.
'At 22, I borrowed €1.5m to open a pub. I was ballsy then... now I'd be terrified'
As part of our How My Business Works series we profile Ernest Cantillon’s Cork businesses.
Ryanair threatens Dublin pilots with pay and benefit cuts if they strike
The budget airline also said it could shift some aircraft to “lower-cost airports”.
The Irish Times has bought the media group behind the Irish Examiner
The deal will have to be cleared by competition watchdogs.
Promising Dublin tidal energy company OpenHydro is axing a big share of its staff
The business builds huge turbines that produce renewable energy.
Zero-hour contracts will be outlawed in most cases under new laws
A bill aims to tackle the casualisation of work in Ireland.
Surfers are fighting Donald Trump's Clare wall for fear it will wreck the waves
The US president’s hotel at Doonbeg first applied for the flood defence plan last year.
Veteran broadcaster Tom McGurk was hit with a tax bill of €75,000
Horse trainers and hospital consultants were also named on Revenue’s latest defaulters list.
'After 9/11, my business stopped overnight and I had to let excellent people go'
Tour America’s Mary McKenna also talks about how no one believed in her business 20 years ago.
A law graduate scalded on a Ryanair flight has been awarded €10,000
The UCD student was awarded the damages two hours before his graduation.
Supervalu's owner is buying a fine foods supplier from the maker of Cuisine de France
The Musgrave group has agreed to acquire La Rousse Foods for an undisclosed sum.
Athenry residents have made a last-gasp attempt to block Apple's €850m data centre
The objectors are trying to get their appeal heard by the Supreme Court.
Kilkenny's Mount Juliet luxury estate swung back into the black last year
The Thomastown resort bounced back from a near-€2 million loss in 2015.