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  • Financial Services

Business and mortgage lending - how credit unions could take on the banks

A new report says the return on members’ deposits is now “critically low”.

  • 4 min read
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'We kicked ourselves for not expanding during the boom, but it would have crippled us'

Fergal Doyle

Fergal Doyle

Co-owner, Arboretum Home & Garden Heaven

After a life-threatening car crash, this entrepreneur returned home to help run his family business.

  • 7 min read
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  • building and property

A developer that illegally demolished a historic convent is expecting a big windfall

Kimpton Vale’s losses more than doubled last year, but it expects to pay its debts soon.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property

JD Wetherspoon has the green light for a €4m 'super pub' and hotel in south Dublin

One local had complained the plan “does not bear thinking”.

  • 3 min read
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After 90 years in business, Éamon de Valera's Irish Press firm is being wound up

The one-time publishing business was set up by the former taoiseach in the 1920s.

  • 3 min read
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  • food and drink

A VC-backed $700 juicer maker will refund buyers since the same job can be done by hand

Google’s venture capital arm is among the investors that have put $120 million into Juicero.

  • 2 min read
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How to be better at networking... and get rid of someone who chews your ear off

Rebecca Harrison

Rebecca Harrison

President, Network Ireland

Network Ireland president Rebecca Harrison delivers a masterclass in mingling.

  • 6 min read
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  • food and drink

A Spanish brewery has bought a big chunk of the firm that makes O'Hara's craft beer

The maker of Estrella Galicia beer is taking a 32% stake in Carlow Brewing Company.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property

Only 8,800 extra houses were added to Ireland's stocks in the past half a decade

A new report also revealed the towns and cities with the highest vacancy rates.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property

Two Kerry brothers plan to construct Ireland's tallest building in Cork

Kevin and Donal O’Sullivan helped develop some of New York’s most iconic structures.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property

An agent has to pay €3,000 for telling a single mother an apartment was for couples

The real estate agent was accused of discrimination.

  • 4 min read
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  • building and property

Plans to build over 100 apartments in south Dublin have been shot down

The council said that the plan from a well-known developer would overshadow existing properties.

  • 3 min read
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  • Sports

'A work trip for me is going to Alaska to climb the highest mountain in North America'

As part of our How My Business Works series, we profile adventure holiday firm Earth’s Edge.

  • 8 min read
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  • Financial Services

One investor made €560m on Bank of Ireland shares snapped up after the crash

Prem Watsa has been referred to as the ‘Canadian Warren Buffett’.

  • 2 min read
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  • Work

Why tech firms are up in arms about two nations cracking down on foreign work visas

Australia and America both want to ensure more jobs for their own citizens and not foreign workers.

  • 6 min read
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  • building and property

Irish house prices are up by a huge 11% – and more rises could be on the way

Prices are jumping across the country.

  • 2 min read
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Facebook wants to make phone cameras the 'first mainstream augmented-reality platform'

The social networking site is again going after Snapchat with the move.

  • 3 min read
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  • food and drink

'We're making whiskey for wine drinkers, not just something to get s**tfaced with'

The firm behind Waterford Distillery has €20 million to spend on getting its product ready for market.

  • 3 min read
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  • Opinion
  • Work

Poll: Would you be in favour of six-hour work days?

Workers in Sweden have served as guinea pigs for the shorter working week.

  • 2 min read
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A Longford farmer is fighting his dismissal from a key lobby group over far-right party claims

James Reynolds went to the High Court after effectively being removed from his position as ICSA treasurer.

  • 2 min read
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