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  • Financial Services

Credit union boss sacked from €110k job after three months was 'not a whistleblower'

Former Core Credit Union CEO Shane Bissett claimed he uncovered ‘serious wrongdoing’ at the company.

  • 4 min read
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  • Work

As HP shuts its Leixlip print plant, we look back at its 20 years in Kildare

Up to 500 job losses were announced at the firm today.

  • 5 min read
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  • food and drink

One of Ireland's top craft brewers has snapped up a rival cider brand

The Carlow Brewing Company is buying Craigies Cider, which was set up in 2011.

  • 3 min read
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  • Work

Hewlett-Packard's Kildare print business is being shut down

The company said it is likely that close to 500 jobs will be lost over the next year.

  • 3 min read
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  • Financial Services

Why KBC is thinking of cashing out of Ireland - and why it's being tipped to stay

The lender’s 1,000 local staff are sweating on a decision tomorrow.

  • 4 min read
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'I got kicked out of my office, couldn't afford my rent and moved home – but I knew I'd start again'

William Jenkins

William Jenkins

Co-founder, Mr Jenks

After his IT security business folded, this entrepreneur made the unlikely jump into making pocket squares.

  • 7 min read
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'Nobody's going away to the Bahamas': Celtic Media's sale to INM worth 'less than €4m'

The company’s boss today said the business model for newspapers was ‘broken’.

  • 4 min read
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Tesco staff are going on 'indefinite' strike over cuts to long-standing workers' pay

Up to 15 stores could be affected by the stoppages.

  • 4 min read
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Clare's Doonbeg golf resort will pay €15k for using children in brochures without permission

Parents were unaware The Lodge used pictures of their kids in promotional material for nearly two years.

  • 3 min read
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A landmark Dublin court case could decide the future of online privacy in Europe

Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems says Ireland should stop Facebook’s data transfers to the US.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property

This is the town with the highest rate of empty shops and offices in Ireland

Almost one-third of commercial property is lying unused in Edenderry, County Offaly.

  • 3 min read
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Dublin VC firm Frontline Ventures has a fresh €60m to spend - but it's only targeting one sector

The investment firm is going after business-to-business software startups with its new fund.

  • 2 min read
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  • Financial Services

Colm Lyon's new fintech outfit Fire has struck a 'landmark' deal to deliver debit cards

The company has also revealed plans to open a UK-based office.

  • 3 min read
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Ireland ranks below developing nations for enforcing contracts. Here's why that must change

Emma Kerins

Emma Kerins

Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Chambers Ireland

Making the country a good place to do business is particularly important with Brexit looming.

  • 4 min read
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  • Financial Services

An 'unacceptable' number of credit unions aren't doing background checks on staff

The Central Bank has reported poor compliance with its fitness and probity scheme.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property
  • Opinion

Poll: Should there be a cap on how often Dublin homes can be rented out on Airbnb?

Apartments and houses in London can only be made available for 90 days per year.

  • 2 min read
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Shane Ross won't commit to preserving the tourism sector's reduced tax rate

The tourism minister said the industry would thrive, ’9% VAT or not’.

  • 4 min read
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This Irish Oscar-nominated animation firm is planning a major new studio in Kilkenny

The project will be a joint venture between Cartoon Saloon and Canada’s Mercury Filmworks.

  • 2 min read
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This scheme to save struggling Irish companies has never been used. Here’s why

The insolvency process was to help smaller firms struggling under unsustainable debts.

  • 4 min read
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  • building and property

Whatever happened to... Cable cars suspended hundreds of feet above the River Liffey?

The developer behind ‘Suas’ wanted to create a Dublin icon like the London Eye or Eiffel Tower

  • 4 min read
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