Rival's price an indicator of Smurfit's valueBusiness Opinion: Jefferson Smurfit is set to return to the Irish stock market this week and has gone to considerable efforts…Mon Mar 12 2007 - 00:00
Hardly the special treatment Quinn was looking forBusiness Opinion: Here is a question that Seán Quinn can legitimately ask: why has the Government put a massive obstacle in …Mon Feb 26 2007 - 00:00
Pharmacy Bill could be bitter pill to swallowBusiness Opinion: Next month should see the publication of the long-awaited Pharmacy Bill, which, once enacted, will give effect…Mon Feb 19 2007 - 00:00
Irish Times invests in paper groupThe Irish Times Ltd has invested in Gazette Group Newspapers, which publishes three weekly papers in west DublinThu Feb 15 2007 - 00:00
Eircom given signal to deliver on its promisesBusiness Opinion: It's getting on for eight months since Babcock & Brown acquired that most important of assets, the national…Mon Feb 05 2007 - 00:00
Getting value for money on R&D spendingBusiness Opinion: Later this month the next national development plan will be unveiledMon Jan 15 2007 - 00:00
Burlington and Westbury hotels may be sold offTwo of Dublin's best-known hotels could be up for sale in the new year following a restructuring at the Jurys Doyle hotel group…Fri Dec 22 2006 - 00:00
Business slow to condemn Ahern's actionsBusiness Opinion: Imagine the following scenario: it emerges that the chief executive of a large corporation has compromised…Mon Dec 18 2006 - 00:00
Complaints push takeover panel to go 'hands on'Business Opinion: What has happened to the Irish Takeover Panel? The guardian of shareholders' rights generally adopts a low…Mon Dec 11 2006 - 00:00
Docklands body says code applies to Glass Bottle dealThe Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has said its internal code of conduct applies to any conflicts of interest …Tue Dec 05 2006 - 00:00
McNamara may invest only €5m in €1.5bn siteProperty developer Bernard McNamara may invest only €5 million of his own cash in the €1Thu Nov 30 2006 - 00:00
Selling property the best move for GreencoreBusiness Opinion: Shareholders in Greencore must have been a little taken aback last Tuesday to discover that the company now…Mon Nov 27 2006 - 00:00
Hoodwinking, Irish-style, or market forcesBusiness Opinion: It is amazing reallyMon Nov 20 2006 - 00:00
NI deal shouldn't hinge on cut in corporation taxBusiness Opinion: It's hard to believe that the St Andrews Agreement will stand or fall on the issue of corporation taxMon Nov 13 2006 - 00:00
Riverdeep aims mountain-high in takeover planBusiness Opinion: Riverdeep and Barry O'Callaghan are back with a vengeanceMon Oct 30 2006 - 00:00
Eight directors earned €2.8mThe six executive directors of The Irish Times Ltd and the non-executive chairmen of The Irish Times Ltd and The Irish Times …Fri Oct 27 2006 - 01:00
Ryanair where it wants to be on Aer LingusBusiness Opinion: Looking at the goings on of last Friday it is hard to escape the view that Ryanair is laying the groundwork…Mon Oct 23 2006 - 01:00
Losses at Finglas Motors hit €9.4mFinglas Motors, one of the largest independent Ford dealerships, plunged to losses of €9Thu Oct 05 2006 - 01:00
Another chapter in Goggin's unhappy taleBusiness Opinion: The sale of Davy Stockbrokers back to its management looks like the latest chapter in the unhappy tale of …Mon Oct 02 2006 - 01:00
Friends' generosity saved Taoiseach €100,000 interestInterest accrued: Even if he settles his debts at this late stage, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will have saved almost €100,000 in…Thu Sept 28 2006 - 01:00
O'Leary ready to cause trouble for Aer LingusBusiness Opinion: The unveiling by the Dublin Airport Authority of its plans for a second terminal at Dublin Airport provoked…Mon Sept 18 2006 - 01:00
Bluffer's guide to the August silly seasonBusiness Opinion: As a courtesy to our readers who have only just returned from the summer holidays, Business Opinion is pleased…Mon Sept 04 2006 - 01:00
Russian firm may acquire Aughinish AluminaAughinish Alumina could be taken over by Russian aluminium company Rusal as part of a deal that will create the world's largest…Wed Aug 30 2006 - 01:00
Smurfit Kappa reports first-half loss of €152mSmurfit Kappa Group has reported a loss of €152 million for the six months to JuneWed Aug 30 2006 - 01:00
Difficulties of building buzz around airlineBusiness Opinion: It looks as though the Government finally is going to press the button today on the long-awaited Aer Lingus…Mon Aug 28 2006 - 01:00
Tide is turning for O'Dwyer pub empireBusiness Opinion: The idea that the O'Dwyer brothers pub empire might be in some sort of trouble has been greeted with some …Mon Aug 21 2006 - 01:00
Regulatory reform favours status quoBusiness Opinion: Last week the Department of the Taoiseach published, in a surprisingly low-key way, a consultation paper …Mon Jul 31 2006 - 01:00
Irish Times buys MyHome.ie for €50mThe Irish Times Ltd , publisher of The Irish Times , has bought MyHome.ie, the leading online property portalFri Jul 28 2006 - 01:00
Cloudy picture of growing petrol pricesBusiness Opinion: It has a familiar ring to it by this stageMon Jul 24 2006 - 01:00
Global Voice plans European launchGlobal Voice, the Irish-run but Singapore-listed telecoms group, is to relaunch itself as Europe's largest private fibre network…Fri Jul 21 2006 - 01:00
US proxy advisers make their markBusiness Opinion: Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the US proxy voting and corporate governance consultancy, is starting…Mon Jul 17 2006 - 01:00
Doubts remain on robustness of new NorkomBusiness Opinion: When you look at the all-star cast that makes up Norkom's share register it's hard not to believe the soon…Mon Jun 12 2006 - 01:00
Siptu's stance covers its own pensions holeBusiness Opinion: Given the prominence that pensions have been given in the new national partnership agreement, the announcement…Mon Jun 05 2006 - 01:00
Credit unions' bad debt stance may prove costlyBusiness Opinion: The internal Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) report into the financial health of the credit union movement…Mon May 29 2006 - 01:00
Esot will have cash left over after investing €308m in bidEircom's Employee Share Ownership Trust (Esot) will end up with a 35 per cent stake in the privatised company once the transaction…Wed May 24 2006 - 01:00
Risky double act for firms taking unlimited routeBusiness Opinion: The gentle trickle of private limited companies transforming themselves into unlimited entities is in danger…Mon May 22 2006 - 01:00
Great airline circus show must go onBusiness Opinion: The following press release arrived on the desk of Business Opinion late on Friday night.Mon May 15 2006 - 01:00
Corrib battle needs political leadershipBusiness Opinion : It's pretty clear from the report that the pipeline proposed by Shell was safe. So what went wrong?Mon May 08 2006 - 01:00
Unwieldy split may pose risk for DairygoldBusiness Opinion: If you set out to design a company for 21st century Ireland, it's pretty unlikely that you would lump together…Mon May 01 2006 - 01:00
Mandate for Eircom's Esop gets narrowerBusiness Opinion : The Eircom Employee Share Ownership Plan or Esop looks to have pulled off another masterstrokeMon Apr 24 2006 - 01:00
Mortgage at 10 times salaryFirst Trust, the Northern Ireland arm of AIB, lent a customer 10 times their annual salary to purchase a homeFri Apr 21 2006 - 01:00
Blackrock will not be free of Fyffes parentBusiness Opinion: The demerger by Fyffes of its property interests into a separate quoted company looks on the surface like …Mon Apr 17 2006 - 01:00
Fyffes spin-off to have €207m in assetsBlackrock Land International, the property company being spun off by Fyffes, will have assets of €207 million when it comes to…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
Bank's advice likely to go unheeded by GovernmentAnalysis: Taken at face value the Central Bank's prognosis for the economy is the latest in a series of upbeat predictionsThu Apr 13 2006 - 01:00
Transferees may unlock puzzle of decentralisationBusiness Opinion : Dermot McCarthy is not a man given to making a lot of public pronouncementsMon Apr 10 2006 - 01:00
Signature and Davy chase €700m retail dealSignature Capital and Davy Stockbrokers are pursuing a €700 million retail portfolio in Germany, which they claim would be the…Tue Mar 28 2006 - 01:00
An Post speaks from both sides of poor mouthBusiness Opinion: Isolde Goggin, the chairwoman of the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) seems like a nice woman…Mon Mar 27 2006 - 01:00
Aer Lingus float up in the air as Cullen wobblesBusiness Opinion: Martin Cullen is wobblingMon Mar 06 2006 - 00:00
Abolition of Groceries Order means rules must be toughBusiness Opinion : All else being equal the Groceries Order will be consigned to the dustbin of history some time around Easter…Mon Feb 20 2006 - 00:00
An Post chooses Fortis as banking partnerAn Post is to enter exclusive negotiations with Fortis, the Belgian-Dutch financial services group, on the formation of a new…Wed Feb 15 2006 - 00:00
