'The hype dies down after you open, and you're faced with the realities of paying the bills'
After leaving his job to open a café, Barry Lennon was forced back to accountancy to make ends meet.
Food and drink
After more than 200 years in one family's hands, Manor Farm has been sold to a Swedish firm
Ireland’s biggest chicken producer has been valued at €94 million in the deal.
JD Wetherspoon plans its 'biggest investment so far' on a new Dublin hotel and super pub
The Camden Street property is due to open in early 2019.
'After nine years in business without a summer holiday, we're taking a week off this year'
This school teacher went from giving French lessons to delivering pizza at 6am before work.
Brazilian giant JBS has put Ireland's biggest chicken producer up for sale
Armagh-based Moy Park employs about 9,000 people in Northern Ireland.
8 business lessons from rubbing shoulders with Ireland's top entrepreneurs
The best feel the fear, but go ahead and do it anyway.
Keelings and a group of workers have fallen out over a crackdown on sick days
The fruit firm’s logistics arm has been accused of taking a ‘blanket approach’ to absenteeism – a claim it denies.
'It's darkening Ireland's name': Inside the row between Fyffes and its Honduran workers
Serious allegations have been levelled at the company, one of the country’s biggest corporate successes.
A food company founded over bowls of cereal is re-branding - with help from Coca-Cola
As part of our weekly Startup Spotlight series, we profile the Cool Beans Company.
Hotel, alcohol and transport prices make Ireland the second most expensive EU country
Only Denmark has higher consumer costs.
'We'll have nothing': After 65 years, one of Donegal's most famous butchers is closing
McGettigans Butchers has won numerous awards and was visited by Prince Charles.
Profits nearly doubled at fancy grocer Fallon & Byrne last year
The upmarket food store also reported sales of more than €13m.
Off-licences say online sellers are dodging high alcohol taxes by labelling drinks 'collectables'
Trade body Noffla wants officials to bring in new rules for offshore vendors.
This low-profile firm has quietly pumped millions into creating a pub empire in Cork
The Emporium Company has bought and refitted four bars in the county as part of ‘phase one’ of its plans.
After her gastropubs closed down, this cook was determined to pay her debts and fight back.
Profits doubled at salad chain Chopped last year ahead of its planned UK expansion
The firm now has 26 outlets across the island of Ireland.
'Ireland's favourite food brand' Flahavan's took in nearly €20m last year
But the Waterford-based group is worried about what Brexit will do to its business.
Liquidator appointed to a company owned by the star of RTÉ Masterchef
NIck Munier’s Avenue restaurant in Temple Bar suddenly shut last month.
Take a guided tour of... this coffee shop inside two freight containers
The café with a twist opened in the heart of the Liberties last month.
Bakers lose out after complaints about chef's call to 'ban squishy sliced pan'
Darina Allen’s comments were made on an RTÉ programme looking at white bread.