Three decades ago this week, the Oireachtas rushed through emergency legislation to save Larry Goodman’s beef processing empire, triggering Ireland’s first-ever examinership. A lawyer who was in the room looks back on the process that kept the Goodman Group afloat – and many businesses since.
With Phil Hogan gone, the focus now turns to the position he has vacated. Here is why the trade commissioner job matters, and why an Irish candidate is likely to replace Hogan.
Which channel will be more important to the recovery? Will it be bricks or clicks? Can we level the playing field for Irish firms abroad? It is time for a digital single market.
Looking back on the consequences of another infamous, yet more innocuous golf-and-dinner outing at the tipping point of the financial crisis, the only logical conclusion for public officials present at last Tuesday night's event is that they should resign.
McKinsey is forecasting a long, slow recovery for the tourism industry. But there are steps we can take to minimise the pain.
The Link Group wants to buy Pepper for €165 million. Consumer rights advocates are appalled. Will the deal go through? And what happens if it does?
Construction firms have been among the hardest hit from Covid-19, but international building materials supplier CRH has held up well. In its first-half results, released yesterday, there are few signs of stress. What happens next depends on the US.
While official sources imply that private market rents increased 22-fold between 1948 and 2018, new research we have conducted over the last number of years found it to be a 90-fold increase. The data also reveals startling new number on yields and house prices.
Low wage, low margin industries either get competed or innovated out of existence or absorbed into larger entities – and the Covid shock has exposed such sectors, such as the hospitality industry. Yet, with innovative policies, we can mitigate the risks.
Every day, there is another legal action between tenants and landlords over unpaid commercial rents. While big chains such as Boots can play hardball, smaller retailers are coming under increasing strain. It is time for government intervention.
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