Photo by Alexandra Mitache on Unsplash The plaintive voice of a small shop owner in Limerick city lays bare the challenges quietly eroding the backbone of local Irish commerce. With mounting closures, rising operational costs, stubbornly tight labour markets, and…
Photo by Nathan Hurst on Unsplash The latest accounts from Arq, the fashion label spearheaded by influencer-turned-entrepreneur Rosie Connolly, reveal a €2.1 million profit over a six-month period in the second half of last year. On the surface, a half-year…
Photo by Gadiel Lazcano on Unsplash The recent acquisition of The Tuam Herald by Celtic Media Group marks another chapter in the ongoing consolidation of Ireland’s regional press. As one of Galway’s oldest newspapers and among the country’s most venerable…
Photo by Gadiel Lazcano on Unsplash Mediahuis Ireland, the publisher behind some of the country’s most established titles including the Irish Independent and Crime World, has reported a narrowing of its gender pay gap. Women employed by the firm still…
Photo by NIR HIMI on Unsplash Irish aparthotel chain Staycity has announced revenue topping €243 million, buoyed by its expansion into Portugal, Austria, and the Netherlands this year. For a sector still grappling with pandemic aftershocks and ongoing volatility, this…
Photo by Justin Scocchio on Unsplash Ryanair’s recent legal defeat in the UK—where the airline failed to have a compensation claim against it dismissed because passengers enlisted third-party agents—may seem, at first glance, a footnote in consumer rights enforcement. Yet,…
Photo by Saad Chaudhry on Unsplash When Stuart McCaul sealed the acquisition of Big Red Book, a well-established player in Ireland’s accounting software market, it was more than just a business handshake. It marked the opening gambit in a strategy…
The tech world has decided: phone calls are the enemy. They’re “interruptions.” They’re “synchronous overhead.” They’re relics of a bygone era when people didn’t respect each other’s time. Every productivity guru and their Twitter thread preaches the gospel of async…
Everyone in the paid advertising world is complaining about the same thing: Google is taking away control. Performance Max campaigns feel like a black box. Broad match is back with a vengeance. Manual bidding is being deprecated. The old guard…
Photo by Saad Chaudhry on Unsplash The recent revelation that An Post’s outgoing CEO, David McRedmond, earned a relatively modest salary of 250,000 since 2019, without adjustment for market shifts or performance, has sparked renewed scrutiny over remuneration practices in…