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13th Jan, 2026 - 1 min read

“Worse before it gets better”: Will Clarke on fixing Ireland’s broken football system

Will Clarke is one of the FAI’s shining lights. He is campaigning to transform how Irish football develops young players. He speaks about why the FAI isn’t looking for a handout but seed capital.
Dion Fanning
20th Sep, 2025 - 6 min read

€1bn more in the bank: “It’s been a fantastic year for farmers”

Spirits were high at the National Ploughing Championships this week. Mercosur, nitrates and CAP changes are coming, but for the moment, farmers are celebrating a year of record high prices in beef and dairy.
Alice Chambers
20th Sep, 2025 - 7 min read

Next stop, the US: Aimee Connolly prepares Sculpted by Aimee for its biggest challenge yet

As Aimee Connolly approaches ten years in business, the hands-on founder talks colour matching, course correcting, and trend forecasting years in advance.
Alice Chambers
19th Sep, 2025 - 8 min read

Reaching across the oceans: CKS Finance among founding members of international M&A alliance

Founded in 2009, boutique corporate finance house CKS has joined an international network of advisory firms. The members of the new 7Oceans alliance are all based in Europe but it is planning to expand into the US and elsewhere.
Tom Lyons
19th Sep, 2025 - 3 min read

Blown off course: How Arena Capital Partners’ €112m loan-note crisis unfolded

Arena Capital Partners relied on an unregulated financing model that has now unravelled. Investors, pension funds, and creditors have been caught in the storm.
Tom Lyons
18th Sep, 2025 - 12 min read

The European Commission wants to reimpose duties on Israeli goods. Irish firms will be watching closely

Despite its global reputation as staunchly pro-Palestinian, Ireland remains a key trading partner in electronic goods with Israel, which a UN commission inquiry now says is committing genocide in Gaza.
Niall Sargent
18th Sep, 2025 - 4 min read

Green light for Eamon Waters’ Dublin 8 student accommodation complex

Locals had raised concerns over the height and scale of the 200-plus-bed project in the Blackpitts area. With permission granted, it will add to his growing stable of accommodation offerings in the capital city.

Niall Sargent
17th Sep, 2025 - 2 min read

“Parents very often think if my kid plays for the best team, my son or daughter has the best chance of progressing. But that’s not the case.”

Dion Fanning
20th Sep, 2025

How low can Irish football go? Is there a rock bottom? Will Clarke is the FAI’s League of Ireland Academy Development Manager. He knows what is needed to fix Irish football but how as a sport as massively popular as football in this country failed to make a case to government. Ahead of the Budget, Clarke explains to Dion Fanning what Irish football needs.

Top Voices

John Looby: Why Ireland’s complex housing deserves better than simple words

Oliver Callan’s review of Leo Varadkar’s memoir criticised the former Taoiseach’s attitude towards the “housing disaster”. Complex issues deserve better than simple words.
John Looby
22nd Sep, 2025 - 3 min read

A rich country with unfinished business: Rewinding the week that was

Presidential candidates promise a conversation about who we are as a nation. The real question is whether we can reconcile our wealth with our failures on housing and poverty.

Ian Kehoe
21st Sep, 2025 - 4 min read

Siobhán Brett: The death of dialogue in the age of activism

The frightening, doomed drift away from dialogue is growing more common in the US, a nation that has never once been a stranger to political violence and is further from that status, now, than it was even two weeks ago.

Siobhán Brett
20th Sep, 2025 - 5 min read

Starmer shows he can handle Trump again despite the chasms that exist between the two

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's successful courting of the American president amid a plethora of landmines will go down as a win. He desperately needed it as he contends with high-profile exits, looming tax hikes, and the rise of Nigel Farage's Reform.
Michael Cogley
20th Sep, 2025 - 7 min read

Tom Lyons: From staff to passengers, DAA’s stakeholders deserve more answers

Amid a boardroom rift, complaints that were not upheld, and "unsettling speculation", we still don't know what is happening inside the semi-state responsible for Ireland's largest airports that has led to reports of its CEO's departure.
Tom Lyons
19th Sep, 2025 - 3 min read

Dan O’Brien: How Ireland prospers amid economic uncertainty

While the Irish economy continues to thrive, it presents no justification for runaway budget spending and remains exposed to US risks – but still offers a healthier picture than those of its neighbours.
Dan O'Brien
19th Sep, 2025 - 6 min read

Building for growth, capped by caution: The lessons of Dublin Airport

Decades in the making, the airport’s second runway was delivered on time and on budget — only to be hobbled by passenger caps and night-flight limits. Ireland now faces calls for bigger projects like MetroLink without the same scrutiny. Why build it, if we won’t plan to use it?

Colm McCarthy
18th Sep, 2025 - 6 min read

John Collins: Who in their right mind would join an Irish start-up? 

The tax treatment of share options given to workers joining start-ups is a significant barrier to recruitment at a critical stage. It must be adjusted if new companies are to compete with multinationals for talent.
John Collins
17th Sep, 2025 - 5 min read

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