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  • Health 2.0
  • Sports
  • Startup Scout

Output Sports is building smart sensors for strength and conditioning training

In our weekly Startup Scout series, Fora picks out promising companies that are emerging from Ireland.

  • 4 min read
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Why Dublin needs a night mayor - and how to make it work

Paddy O'Dea

Paddy O'Dea

PR360

High-profile closures and relocations have given rise to a narrative of a city losing its identity.

  • 5 min read
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To have an impact with any communication, you need to work out what motivates your audience

Lorcan Nyhan

Lorcan Nyhan

Head of Careers, Communications Clinic

Here’s what we can learn about communication from the greatest advertisers.

  • 4 min read
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  • Feature
  • tourism and transport

'This is absolutely existential': Inside Dublin Airport's fight for growth

The airport has experienced a breakneck upswing. Now it is fighting regulatory challenges to keep up.

  • 9 min read
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  • Business & climate crisis

Workers in Dublin joined student marches to demand action on the climate crisis

The protests are part of a global movement calling for urgent action ahead of the UN climate action summit.

  • 3 min read
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  • Interview
  • Startups and tech

Meet the man who wants to bring Silicon Valley nous to the Irish startup scene

Returning home after working with Peter Thiel’s Palantir, Eoin Hayes wants to help Irish startups grow.

  • 6 min read
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  • Future of finance

The Collison brothers' Stripe raises $250m in fresh funding at a $35bn valuation

The payments giant founded by the Irish duo will use the capital to fuel its international expansion.

  • 2 min read
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  • 21st Century workplace

Huckletree saw a gap in the market for a Dublin fintech co-working space - so it's opening one

The company sees some positives coming from Brexit.

  • 3 min read
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  • media and marketing

Communicorp sought legislative changes to relax radio regulation

The BAI maintained a 25% cap on the control of broadcasting services earlier this year.

  • 4 min read
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  • Deeptech
  • Startups and tech

Galway medtech startup Bluedrop has secured €3.7 million in funding

The company is developing a device that could prevent amputations resulting from diabetic foot ulcers.

  • 3 min read
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  • Financial Services
  • Future of finance
  • Startups and tech

Where Ireland fits into Facebook's grand plans for its Libra cryptocurrency

The project’s Calibra team is staffing up in Dublin in the face of scrutiny from EU lawmakers.

  • 3 min read
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  • retail and services

Safe storage provider Merrion Vaults is opening new facilities in the US and Spain

The Irish company is also opening a facility in Edinburgh as part of an ongoing expansion.

  • 3 min read
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  • retail and services

A third of shoppers will ditch online purchases for Christmas from UK retailers post-Brexit

Industry group Retail Ireland said this presents an opportunity for indigenous stores.

  • 2 min read
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  • Startups and tech

Fleet is partnering with Toyota as it expands its car hire service

The car-sharing app is looking to expand further through partnerships and has its eyes on the UK.

  • 3 min read
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  • 21st Century workplace
  • Startups and tech

Dating app Tinder is building out a safety and moderating team in Dublin

The unit is based at Match Group’s European base in the Irish capital.

  • 2 min read
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  • tourism and transport

Norwegian Air is cutting some Ireland-Scandinavia flights as it pursues profitability

It will stop flying from Dublin to Helsinki and temporarily end Copenhagen services.

  • 2 min read
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  • Tools of the trade

'If you limit growth to your own personal potential, that's a really stupid place to be'

Tools of the Trade: Serial food entrepreneur John Stapleton talks authenticity and gut feeling.

  • 7 min read
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  • Feature
  • policy and economy

Your crash course in... Apple's appeal against the EU's €13bn Irish tax case

The tech giant’s rebuttal against taxes in Ireland will be heard by judges on Tuesday.

  • 4 min read
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  • Your Say

Poll: Should lobby regulations be tightened up for government officials joining tech companies?

A number of former government staff have made the jump into tech.

  • 1 min read
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  • building and property
  • Startup Scout
  • Startups and tech

Offr wants to bring much-needed tech to online property buying

In our weekly Startup Scout series, Fora picks out promising companies that are emerging from Ireland.

  • 4 min read
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