New filings for the Blackrock Clinic show a business in rude health, with serious capital investment and room for growth. However, the sector is not without challenge, as other operators are discovering.
Rena Maycock discusses how fragile a business’s reputation can be in the hands of a disgruntled consumer with a smartphone. The only thing you can do is invite them to do their worst.
The ongoing price crisis in the beef sector has highlighted the need for alternative export markets. Beijing-based Ian Lahiffe warns against the expectation that growing Chinese imports alone will save the day.
Where they go, Ireland goes. In part three of his series on where Ireland is going, Stephen Kinsella looks at the institutional design of our society, analyses our ruling ideas, and asks which sets of interests dominate.
The comments by the head of KBC Bank Ireland’s Belgian parent on tracker mortgages highlighted yet again the lack of cultural change at the upper echelons of banking. Indeed, the actions of the banks give lie to the chatter of cultural rehabilitation.
The government has made its decision, appointing the company led by David McCourt to deliver high-speed connectivity to every home, farm and business in Ireland. The next challenge is to account for the €3 billion taxpayers will pour into the plan.
The establishment believes banks are different and treats them differently. This is not a cyclical and temporary issue; it is structural and permanent. A universal reality confirmed by the recent travails of Deutsche Bank.
Since the slow, sad demise of his empire began more than a decade ago, Sean Quinn has been battling adversaries – both at home and abroad. Yet, few have troubled or disturbed the industrialist quite like his local parish priest.
The complex corporate web used to manage the Coolmore horseracing business and its owners’ other investments makes it difficult to estimate their wealth. This matters for a number of reasons – and Magnier’s position on the national rich list is the least of them.
Irish food exporters have entered China as commodity suppliers. They could achieve a lot more by engaging with the growing cohort of sophisticated Chinese consumers, writes Beijing-based Ian Lahiffe.
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