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  • building and property

The last waterfront site in Dublin's docklands has been put on the market for €120m

The residential site up for sale could potentially house over 500 homes.

  • 3 min read
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  • food and drink
  • insights and opinion

Poll: Do you think restaurants should charge customers who fail to show for a booking?

A food industry trade group had a run-in with the competition watchdog over the issue.

  • 1 min read
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  • policy and economy

After another bump in the road, here's what we know about the National Broadband Plan

There is one bidder left for the contract, but politicians think the writing is on the wall.

  • 4 min read
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  • food and drink

An Irish meat processor has acquired a UK rival to help Brexit-proof its business

Kepak has bought 2 Sisters Red Meat Ltd – which can process 250,000 cattle and a million lambs annually.

  • 3 min read
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  • policy and economy

Ireland says EU digital tax plans have 'greatly overstated' the value of users' data

Government officials admit the move would probably hurt the country’s ability to attract tech firms.

  • 4 min read
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  • food and drink
  • retail and services

'There's a risk of being caught up in a trend': The fight for Ireland's salad-bar market

Competition is growing as people swap chicken fillet rolls for chickpeas.

  • 6 min read
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  • Startups and tech

How Cork's Wisetek is taking its mission to cut electronic waste global

The firm opened two new facilities in the US and is now eyeing the Middle East and Africa.

  • 4 min read
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'Dublin is not a low-rise city - it's even lower than that'

Aidan Sweeney

Aidan Sweeney

Senior policy executive, Ibec

Taller buildings and increased density would improve quality of life in the capital.

  • 5 min read
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  • food and drink
  • media and marketing

'We need to defend ourselves': Dairy's in-your-face play to woo Irish millennials

The National Dairy Council has taken a ‘provocative’ approach to the rise of plant-based products.

  • 7 min read
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  • food and drink
  • tourism and transport

How food and drink firms get their brands onto the 'shop window' that is the airline trolley

As well as being a revenue stream for producers, in-flight catering is ‘brilliant for branding’.

  • 5 min read
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  • building and property
  • Startups and tech

Europe's biggest co-working outfit wants to make Dublin the go-to place for IoT startups

Talent Garden has teamed up with DCU to provide shared offices and training programmes.

  • 5 min read
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Recruiters should learn to love the machines that are going to 'take over' their jobs

Wendy Murphy

Wendy Murphy

LinkedIn Talent Solutions

Companies and employees who embrace change stand to benefit the most from it.

  • 5 min read
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  • policy and economy
  • Work

Why people can't agree on the impact new zero-hour contract laws will have on business

Some say the draft Employment Bill isn’t ‘balanced’. Others think it’ll be ‘ineffective’.

  • 6 min read
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'I got a call saying the warehouse was on fire. All my stock was gone, it was turned to ash'

Simon Evans

Simon Evans

Founder, LittleBig Bikes

After quitting his job to cycle around the world in 2008, Simon Evans came back to a changed Ireland.

  • 9 min read
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  • building and property
  • tourism and transport

Despite council concerns, hospitality mogul Paddy McKillen is scaling up a Dublin hotel plan

The Press Up Group founder wants to nearly double the rooms in the docklands development.

  • 3 min read
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  • retail and services
  • Startups and tech

After announcing its closure, food-waste startup Obeo will 'customer fund' for its survival

The company hopes to re-invent itself as an online-only business after struggling to make ends meet.

  • 3 min read
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  • Work

A civil servant sacked on his 65th birthday has lost an unfair dismissal claim

The Department of Jobs employee claimed that he wasn’t due to retire – but he was.

  • 3 min read
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  • retail and services

A Tallaght laundry firm has been snapped up by a multibillion-euro French buyer

Elis has acquired Kings Laundry, which employs up to 550 people at peak times.

  • 2 min read
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  • Startups and tech

A Japanese tech giant wants to help fix Dublin's traffic snarls with sensors and AI

The agreement marks SoftBank’s first smart-city venture outside its home country.

  • 6 min read
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  • food and drink
  • retail and services

‘It’s a challenge trying to sell good products in a market that only cares about price’

As part of our How My Business Works series, we profile Ashbourne-based Nick’s Fish.

  • 7 min read
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