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  • building and property

Plans to open a big new hotel and casino in Offaly have been scuppered

The new development would have been connected to the existing four-star Bridge Hotel.

  • 2 min read
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  • Work

A Mayo medical supplies firm has to pay €25,000 to a worker who 'went from hero to zero'

The ex-employee told the Labour Court she was effectively demoted from her role as a retail supervisor.

  • 4 min read
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  • Financial Services

After putting aside €4m to cover the tracker scandal, KBC now says it'll cost €59m

The bank estimates more than 1,600 customers may have been impacted.

  • 3 min read
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Three aviation execs wait to face claims they used trade secrets to set up a rival firm

Ex-Ryanair finance boss Howard Millar and two fellow Stellwagen Capital directors deny any wrongdoing.

  • 2 min read
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  • Financial Services

'There's a lesson to be learned': Push to reveal details of Sugarman bank probe

The Central Bank is being pressed to make public its investigation into Unicredit breaches.

  • 3 min read
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Why this Tipperary man with five degrees left a good job in the middle of the recession

As part of our How My Business Works series, we profile Dublin-based Future Analytics Consulting.

  • 7 min read
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  • Financial Services

An Irish arm of a major vulture fund paid just €500 tax on millions in profits last year

Another Irish Lone Star subsidiary, which had income of over €700m, paid €4m in tax.

  • 4 min read
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  • building and property

Dublin beats the rest of Europe - when it comes to building hotel rooms

Thousands of bedrooms are under construction in the Irish capital.

  • 2 min read
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One Direction's Niall Horan has taken a stake in an Irish startup that puts sounds to emojis

The firm was previously backed by snooker star Ken Doherty and racehorse trainer Henry de Bromhead.

  • 3 min read
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  • food and drink

Molson Coors' Irish losses have doubled as pub beer sales dry up

The company’s local division still expects to be profitable before 2020.

  • 2 min read
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  • food and drink

'My worst decision? Turning down the Domino's pizza franchise'

Niall Fortune of Eddie Rocket’s talks about working in a laundry and why he’d hire Mattress Mick.

  • 5 min read
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Aer Lingus says the failure of other European airlines is 'good news'

Stephen Kavanagh believes the failure of Monarch, Alitalia and Air Berlin shows ‘the market is working’.

  • 4 min read
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A Clare company devastated by a cyber attack is cutting staff after posting huge losses

Loyaltybuild suffered a major breach in late 2013 which forced it to stop trading for a period.

  • 2 min read
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An Austrian activist can sue Facebook Ireland over use of his personal data

But the ECJ’s advocate general said Max Schrems can’t take a class action on behalf of others.

  • 3 min read
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A huge UK fund is about to invest hundreds of millions in Irish companies

BGF is being backed by the state and Ireland’s biggest banks for the €250 million pool.

  • 2 min read
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Nearly two centuries after its launch in Ireland, Friends First will be sold to Aviva

The cash deal is worth €130 million, but it still needs to clear regulatory approval.

  • 2 min read
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Paddy Cosgrave has apologised for an 'offensive' event at Portugal's National Pantheon

A number of the country’s key national figures are buried at the site.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property

Irish house prices could spike by 20%, but there's no property bubble

That’s according to the ESRI, which said the housing market may still be ‘undervalued’.

  • 3 min read
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Two Irish firms have bagged spots on a bootcamp taught by the 'PayPal Mafia'

FoodCloud and Webio will head to Silicon Valley later this month for the programme.

  • 2 min read
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  • Opinion
  • Work

Poll: Would you encourage overseas workers to move to Ireland?

A UK jobs fair is trying to tempt talented tech staff to these shores.

  • 2 min read
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