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  • food and drink

'I used to triple-check everything – I had to learn to trust people'

Guinness Storehouse boss Paul Carty also explains why it’s not OK to drink at a business meeting.

  • 6 min read
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  • food and drink

McDonald's Ireland dished out over €100m to its corporate owners last year

The fast-food chain’s local division also booked a multimillion-euro profit.

  • 3 min read
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EasyJet is likely to be the major winner from Ryanair and Monarch Airline's woes

The British carrier has been tipped as the best-positioned to capitalise on rivals’ problems.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property

A major housing development in Sandyford has been handed a 'mystifying' knock-back

Ires Reit was denied permission to build more than 450 apartments in south Dublin.

  • 2 min read
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  • Opinion

Poll: Should income taxes be cut for higher earners?

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar recently claimed high taxes were holding back the nation.

  • 2 min read
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A Galway company that tracks truckers has been snapped up by a Nasdaq-listed firm

Blue Tree Systems has been sold to Orbcomm.

  • 2 min read
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What Europe's tough new data protection rules will mean for the world of HR

John Ghent

John Ghent

CEO, Sytorus

The GDPR regulations will come into force with immediate effect next year.

  • 5 min read
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  • building and property

A vulture fund-backed housebuilder will capitalise on Ireland's 'immature' property market

Glenveagh Properties plans to build thousands of houses across the country.

  • 3 min read
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Monarch Airlines has collapsed leaving 110,000 passengers stranded

The failure has been described as the largest ever in the UK aviation sector.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property

Timeline: The 17-year battle over plans for a huge incinerator at Cork Harbour

A Belgian company wants to burn waste in Ringaskiddy, but locals have fought every step of the way.

  • 4 min read
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  • food and drink

After project China, Bord Bia is hunting for the next billion-euro Asian market

The state agency is still at ‘square one’ in much of the region.

  • 4 min read
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  • Sports

How Paddy Power is using its brick-and-mortar bookies to push spending online

Cash is still king, as far as the bookmaker’s concerned.

  • 3 min read
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What Mark Zuckerberg's clothes can teach you about avoiding customers' 'decision fatigue'

Donal Cronin

Donal Cronin

Director, Carr Communications

Faced with too many complex choices, a lot of potential buyers will just opt out.

  • 7 min read
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'Watching the Irish state throw money at people doing so much less with it is frustrating'

Bill Liao reveals SOSV’s expansion setbacks in Ireland and the right way to go about social enterprise.

  • 6 min read
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  • building and property

'We wondered, would we die as a town?': How Westport was regenerated

Council architect Simon Wall now wants to make the area an adventure hotspot.

  • 5 min read
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  • food and drink

This Dublin startup wants to help people skip the lunch queue

As part of our weekly Startup Spotlight series we profile Bamboo.

  • 4 min read
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Here are some Budget wishes - and what we can expect to actually get

John Murphy

John Murphy

Tax Partner, PwC

There won’t be any Celtic Tiger-style ‘goodies’ for Ireland in the 2018 edition.

  • 5 min read
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Why airlines are flying into a future of pilot shortages

A leading trainer says high entry costs and poor marketing are turning off aspiring flyers.

  • 5 min read
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Eight of Ireland's biggest firms paid no corporate taxes on their income

An official analysis also found more than a dozen firms had an effective tax rate of below 1%.

  • 3 min read
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'After one long week we bawled all the way home in the car. We couldn't console each other'

Claire Finnan

Claire Finnan

Co-founder, Pregnancy & Baby Fair

Claire Finnan started out as a nurse before moving to PR then launching a baby fair.

  • 8 min read
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