COLM LYON, THE chief executive of Dublin payments firm Fire, has made no secret of the company’s dedication to the UK market. The UK accounts for about 60-70% of Fire’s business, he said, and the ...

HOW DO YOU keep the lights on for 530-years, especially when your main client finds its popularity dwindling? For Rathbornes 1488, salvation comes through reinvention. Laying claim to be Ireland’s ...

THE YEAR IS 1989. The Berlin Wall has fallen, Nasa’s launched its Galileo spacecraft and Nintendo’s Game Boy is hitting shop shelves. In Ireland, Charles Haughey is in his final term as Taoiseach, the ...

GENDER DIVERSITY IN tech, startups and venture capital has regularly come under scrutiny but angel investing needs to catch up and get more women involved too, according to the Halo Business Angel ...

CANADIAN MEDICINAL CANNABIS firm Satipharm set up a base of operations in Ireland for its big push into Europe with its CBD products. Satipharm is a Dublin-based subsidiary of Vancouver-headquartered ...

RYANAIR HAS LAUNCHED legal proceedings against Peter Bellew, the airline’s outgoing chief operating officer. In a letter last month Michael O’Leary said Bellew would leave the airline at the end of ...

Since the 1940s it has been understood that each generation will have the same, or better, standard of living as their parents. No more. Millennials are the first generation who can’t be sure their ...

FINTECH STARTUP SUPPLY Finance has raised a top-up round of €1.8 million from existing investors. The Dublin-based startup, founded in 2017, helps in the providing of trade financing to small- and ...

NEXT WEEK, ABOUT 2,000 finance and sustainability experts will descend upon Helsinki to discuss the circular economy at the third annual World Circular Economy Forum. More than an EU buzzword, the ...

AFTER BOOKING PROFITS of more than €2 million over the last year, financial software firm Fenergo is on the lookout for new funding to finance its growth. Fenergo develops client management software ...

A CONTROVERSIAL STARBUCKS café in Cork city centre has closed following a long-running planning battle between its owners and the local council. The Patrick Street store was opened three years ago ...

AS THE COMPETITION for talent heats up in Ireland, the cost of replacing an employee has doubled since last year. That’s according to new research from Adare Human Resource Management, which showed ...