Dermot Desmond agrees to put further €63m into diamond company MPDMost of the world’s gem markets are closed due to the Covid pandemicMon Aug 24 2020 - 20:41
Rage over Berlin bar is a distraction from what Ireland must doCaveat: Contrast the controversy here with the calm acceptance of a pool party in ChinaFri Aug 21 2020 - 06:00
Lidl looks to cash in on price sensitive consumers as recession loomsInterview: Irish CEO JP Scally says supermarket's sales grew by up to 30% during lockdownWed Aug 19 2020 - 05:11
Lidl breaches €2bn sales barrier in IrelandSupermarket chain is pressing ahead with expansion plans as it prepares for recessionWed Aug 19 2020 - 05:00
US stocks close at record high, rebounding from Covid crashInvestors look past fresh tensions between the US and China over HuaweiTue Aug 18 2020 - 23:07
Free Now says money owed to Irish taxi drivers has been paidTaxi app apologises for weeks of payment delays that sparked calls for regulationTue Aug 18 2020 - 13:35
Call for taxi regulator to investigate Free Now driver payment delaysGovernment TD asks Minister to direct National Transport Authority to get involvedTue Aug 18 2020 - 05:13
Taxi app Free Now misses Irish driver payment deadline for fourth timeApp promised drivers unpaid fares would be processed ‘over the weekend’Mon Aug 17 2020 - 17:24
Inglot Cosmetics Irish and UK business to appoint liquidatorMore than 20 stores close but Swarbrigg family switches control of online operationMon Aug 17 2020 - 07:53
Boots stops paying some landlords as it seeks post-Covid rent dealsCompany says deals with landlords will help sustain ‘long-term future’Mon Aug 17 2020 - 05:45
Denis O’Brien charity has income cut by 30%Donations to private charity funded by businessman fall by more than €1 millionMon Aug 17 2020 - 05:23
Free Now blames ‘technical issues’ for taxi driver pay failureIrish taxi drivers worried after payment deadline missed for second week in a rowFri Aug 14 2020 - 16:24
Coronavirus: We must save lives but we also need to liveCaveat: New Zealand’s lockdown relapse shows there is no easy way to avoid living with Covid-19Fri Aug 14 2020 - 05:06
Jervis shopping centre takes major tenants to court over rent disputesFields, Schuh, New Look and Topman among retailers being sued by Paddy McKillen entityThu Aug 13 2020 - 05:03
Harvey Norman targets Irish property developersApartment fitouts new revenue stream for furniture chain amid Covid-19 uncertaintyWed Aug 12 2020 - 05:20
Stimulus hopes drive markets close to pre-Covid highsMarkets report: European stocks hit a near three-week high, S&P 500 closes in on peakTue Aug 11 2020 - 18:18
Refurbished Cafe en Seine doubled sales to €9.5m before pandemicDublin superpub owner Mercantile Group still open to expansion despite hit from virusFri Aug 07 2020 - 15:33
Irish tourism must also help itself to survive the pandemicCaveat: A 17-county road trip reveals an industry battling fear, as well as its own old failingsFri Aug 07 2020 - 07:19
Quality mark urged for workplaces that push gender equalityAdvocacy group’s report on gender inequality suggests ways to improve fairnessThu Aug 06 2020 - 11:12
Three Ireland outstrips European siblings as half-year earnings up 8%Additional customers offset decline in mobile operator’s average revenue figure per userThu Aug 06 2020 - 10:44
Insurers told to pay legal costs of pandemic test casesRegulator instructs insurers to accept responsibility for publicans ‘reasonable’ legal costs even if they winWed Aug 05 2020 - 12:58
Motor insurers will use virus windfall to cut premiums for good PR, says Moody’sClaims have been lower than normal due to lockdown traffic slumpWed Aug 05 2020 - 04:55
House parties the potential problem, but pubs sent to financial purgatory againCaveat: House parties have emerged as a potential problem, not pub partiesFri Jul 17 2020 - 07:24
McDonald’s Irish accounts show €75m cash injection as restaurants reopen for dine-inFast-food chain reopens 27 of its Irish stores for dine-in for first time since shutdownWed Jul 15 2020 - 16:47
July stimulus is ‘last chance’ to save the economy, Chambers Ireland warnsBusiness lobby group calling for subsidy extension and rates waiverWed Jul 15 2020 - 06:10
Californian tech sell-off exports gloom to European marketsIseq remains flat on reduced trading volumesTue Jul 14 2020 - 18:33
Dermot Desmond-backed diamond miner gets waiver from bank covenantsMountain Province Diamonds is in talks with the businessman to secure new facilitiesTue Jul 14 2020 - 17:23
Government to push through €2bn credit guarantee scheme next weekPortfolio cap lifted on loan guarantee scheme for pandemic-hit SMEsTue Jul 14 2020 - 09:22
Harvey Norman to open new stores in Galway and SligoAustralian furniture chain set to expand here amid boom in sales during lockdownTue Jul 14 2020 - 05:00
Dublin banker sells island off coast of west Cork for €5.5m‘Ultra high net worth’ European buys Horse Island and its seven properties and helipadMon Jul 13 2020 - 14:17
Norwegian airline sued in Dublin by inflight catererNorwegian Air International has been hit with two High Court debt summary judgment applications by NewrestMon Jul 13 2020 - 05:37
Companies cutting IT investment when they need it most, warns PwC reportFirm says its research shows three quarters of those slashing IT plan cuts more than 20%Mon Jul 13 2020 - 05:30
Tobacco giant’s menthol-ban substitutes take 5% share of Irish marketSales data shows Japanese company’s replacement brands had increased share here by mid-JuneMon Jul 13 2020 - 05:11
Varadkar and Donohoe to meet banks to discuss mortgage breaksLenders under pressure to waive interest on coronavirus-related payment breaksSun Jul 12 2020 - 19:24
New Powerscourt Springs hotel to open in defiance of virus gloomWicklow businesswoman Lorraine Sweeney has teamed up with her daughter Adrienne Stewart in the €2.5m investmentSat Jul 11 2020 - 05:14
The €1 billion market: retailers who serve tourists face double trouble in a pandemicWith quarantine in place for foreign visitors, tourists are unlikely to return in 2020Fri Jul 10 2020 - 05:50
Caveat: The tourism sector deserves to be taken more seriously in this crisisFrom the lack of targeted supports to the fiasco over quarantine, it has been sold shortFri Jul 10 2020 - 05:17
‘Sad day’ for House of Ireland as tourism retailer goes out of businessFive companies linked to Grafton Street giftware group to go into liquidationFri Jul 10 2020 - 05:17
Spar-owner BWG explores potential for online shopping ‘pot of gold’But chief executive Leo Crawford warns costs must be borne and ‘nobody has cracked it’Tue Jul 07 2020 - 20:04
SuperValu and Centra MD Martin Kelleher stepping downVeteran leaves Cork-based Musgrave group after 10 years running retail divisionTue Jul 07 2020 - 18:17
Columbia Sportswear defies gloom with first Irish standalone shopIrish-American company patriarch Tim Boyle calls Trump a ‘conman’Sat Jul 04 2020 - 07:44
Dublin consultancy Pathfinder set for expansion after buyout by Sia PartnersSia plans to double size of Irish business in next three years, adding up to 60 staffFri Jul 03 2020 - 06:00
Covid-19: Publicans and restaurateurs row over calls for VAT cutsIndustry groups are split over a drive for a near €700m cut to VAT on pub alcohol salesThu Jul 02 2020 - 05:25
Revolut data confirms consumer spending spike as lockdown easedPent up demand drives spending 25% ahead of normal Monday businessTue Jun 30 2020 - 19:40
‘Shattered’ tourism industry calls for immediate €1bn injectionSector wants Fáilte Ireland to administer grantsMon Jun 29 2020 - 15:42
The ‘covidpreneurs’ of 2020: ‘You couldn’t mill the flour fast enough’The car parts sellers who started flogging frisbees, the gin makers who switched to sanitiserSat Jun 20 2020 - 06:00
Economic degrowth advocated by Greens' radical wing would bring carnage and human miseryCaveat: Radical wing pretends economic degrowth will not cause considerable painFri Jun 19 2020 - 07:10
Philip Morris says Irish ad for ‘menthol blend’ cigarettes a ‘mistake’Ad to retailers for new brand ‘should not have run’, Irish head of tobacco giant saysFri Jun 19 2020 - 05:15
‘July stimulus’ promised in new programme for governmentAbility of companies to split into trading and property entities may be restricted alsoMon Jun 15 2020 - 16:20
Queen’s pub in Dalkey closing downLandmark bar owned by former AIB CEO Tom Mulcahy may be sold for redevelopmentFri Jun 12 2020 - 18:22
