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Vet group IVC Evidensia continues Irish acquisition trail with three more sites

The EQT-owned UK firm is buying Old Church Veterinary Hospital, which has three practices in Donegal and Sligo. It marks the latest consolidation of Irish vet practices by foreign investors.
Jonathan Keane
7th Feb, 2025 - 2 min read

“Like a nuclear bomb”: Forestry industry faces a litany of storm-related costs

Farmers encouraged to plant trees in recent decades face income loss from a series of after-effects from storm Éowyn. The challenge is a test for newly appointed junior minister Michael Healy-Rae.
Thomas Hubert
7th Feb, 2025 - 8 min read

Black swan: Environmental legal challenge with a potential chilling effect on development

The Court of Appeal has asked for the CJEU's opinion on the validity of environmental assessments used in planning. The European court's position could have a dramatic impact on planned projects close to over 80 Irish protected nature sites.
Niall Sargent
7th Feb, 2025 - 6 min read

Reimagining the front office: EY’s Richard Hepworth on using AI and data to transform the customer experience

The way businesses interact with their customers is undergoing a seismic shift. Richard Hepworth, a partner at EY, explains why front-office transformation is now a matter of survival and gives practical advice on how companies can embrace the change.

Ian Kehoe
7th Feb, 2025 - 7 min read

Leo Varadkar’s next chapter: a PR company but “no lobbying or public affairs”

A new PR and communication company was registered with the former Taoiseach as sole director. It comes as he announced his move to America with a new role at Harvard.
Alice Chambers
6th Feb, 2025 - 2 min read

From unsolicited calls to Osteria Lucio: How Red Flag sold to Ankura in a major €45m deal

In 2013, Karl Brophy and his wife, Deirdre Grant, used their life savings to found the communications firm Red Flag. It has just been sold in a big-ticket deal to a global consulting group. Brophy explains how the deal came about – and what comes next.
Tom Lyons
6th Feb, 2025 - 11 min read

10 years a vulture – part 3: How Ireland paid Cerberus €1bn, and counting, to deal with its bad debts

Nama and Ulster Bank were the biggest early sellers of non-performing loans to the US vulture fund, along with European banks. With the benefit of hindsight, how do those deals compare?
Thomas Hubert
6th Feb, 2025 - 6 min read

Ciaran Murray made a fortune trading crypto. His next big bet is on the future of journalism

Ciaran Murray travelled the world, moving from villa to villa, trading cryptocurrencies. Now back in Dublin, he’s on a mission to revolutionise journalism with blockchain technology. But who is he? And can he succeed where so many others have failed?

Tom Lyons
6th Feb, 2025 - 14 min read

10 years a vulture: How much has Cerberus made in Ireland?

Thomas Hubert
3rd Feb, 2025

We now have full sight of the returns achieved by Cerberus on the first wave of distressed debt it acquired in Ireland following the financial crisis. Thomas Hubert joins Ian Kehoe to discuss the US vulture fund's performance and how it compares between deals with major Irish providers of bad loans, such as Nama and Ulster Bank, and other European countries covered by Cerberus's growing Irish office. A major series of articles to be published this week covers the figures in detail.

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Dan O’Brien: Ireland’s neighbourhood is more dangerous, but it has yet to invest in a stronger lock or good alarm

The last Cold War ended in 1990. Ireland no longer is the irrelevant backwater it was then. Greater focus and resources on defending the State, its people and its economy should reflect its new dangerous environment.
Dan O'Brien
7th Feb, 2025 - 6 min read

John Looby: Talk of a polycrisis is dangerous nonsense

Across most of the world, absolute material well-being has never been greater. Moreover, while the crises we face are real, there is nothing historically special or especially great about them.

John Looby
6th Feb, 2025 - 3 min read

Stuart Fitzgerald: What entrepreneurs do to look after their mental health

Before a business can deliver rewards for its founder, it is likely to raise significant mental health and lifestyle challenges. Here is some real-life advice from those who have been there.
Stuart FitzGerald
5th Feb, 2025 - 4 min read

Ronan Lyons: The real reasons the Government missed its housing targets so badly

The rise in home completions was largely driven by a surge in new apartments. But this surge has stopped due to the tightening of rent controls and the scrapping of Strategic Housing Developments, and Buy-to-Rent codes.
Ronan Lyons
4th Feb, 2025 - 6 min read

Scarp, restructuring, and the battle for corporate survival: Rewinding the week that was

The number of companies that used the Scarp restructuring process was just 30 last year, compared to 33 in 2023. So, why is the number so low?

Ian Kehoe
2nd Feb, 2025 - 5 min read

Paul Flynn: “The GAA needs to embrace the chaos of Gaelic football’s rule changes”

The transformations in Gaelic football led by Jim Gavin’s Football Review Committee consulted widely. But the mistake many in the GAA are making is to believe Gavin and his committee are looking for consensus.
Paul Flynn
1st Feb, 2025 - 5 min read

Joe Gill: The world’s aviation leaders descended on Dublin. Here are my key takeaways

The Aviation Economics conference was a heady mix of deep-dive analysis and side conversations about every aspect of the aviation market. Aviation analyst Joe Gill reveals what he learned.

Joe Gill
31st Jan, 2025 - 4 min read

The UK’s fundamental problem is not that it has run out of money. It is that it has run out of growth

I don’t expect an IMF-style adjustment programme for the UK – but I would not rule it out either. But, the bigger question for the UK, and not just the current government, is what is the UK’s industrial policy going to look like?
Peter Kinsella
30th Jan, 2025 - 9 min read

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