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Profit & Loss: Disney has post-pandemic boon and U2 stay tight-lipped on dividends

Revealing who is up and who is down as we go inside the world of private Irish businesses

Profit & Loss: Des Kelly's well-furnished books and post-pandemic magic at Disney Grafton Street

Revealing who is up and who is down as we go inside the world of private Irish businesses

Matt Cooper: O’Leary’s Ryanair knows it pays off to get onboard with ‘woke’ green agenda

The airline might be accused of greenwashing in its efforts to tackle climate change, but a new report shows it recognises that business could be hit by customers going elsewhere if they don’t take green issues seriously

Disney hikes prices for its streaming service in Ireland

Cost of Disney+ rising by €2 a month as of November as entertainment company announces new ad-supported plan in some European countries

Making the cut: meet the culinary producer of The Bear

Trained chef Courtney Storer is the reason every episode of this hit Disney Plus show about a hectic kitchen in a Chicago restaurant is true to life

Marion McKeone: No sign of credits rolling on Hollywood strike as studios turn up the heat

Morale remains high on the picket lines despite the scorching Los Angeles heatwave

The Big Interview

‘Disney popped up and said, ‘Look, we’ve got Ratatouille, would you guys look at it?’’ – Colm O’Farrell, Deluxe Group

The entertainment space is on the up, but for the specialist fit-out company chair who works with some of the world’s biggest theme parks, there’s no drama

Musk to host DeSantis’ presidential announcement, signalling starker partisanship on Twitter

Twitter announcement may affect platform’s relationship with advertiser Disney, which is currently in a row with DeSantis

Marion McKeone: Disney row threatens to turn DeSantis’s tilt at White House into Mickey Mouse affair

The spat between Disney and Florida has become a war and Disney’s abandoned plans to open a $1 billion Apple-style campus in Florida seems calculated to scuttle DeSantis’s Republican candidacy campaign launch

Wall Street struggles over fears for Walt Disney and health of banks

Letter From America

Marion McKeone: Ron DeSantis’ Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die, and crazy goes to live

Florida has always been a strange place and the butt of jokes but under its current governor it has become so strange that it’s hard to even satirise

Disney steering a straight line between financial woes and Republican attacks

Governor Ron DeSantis is gunning for the centenarian entertainment and theme park giant after it rejected his ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. But returned chief executive Bob Iger is shedding ballast and boosting share prices, making it watertight once more

Disney to cut 7,000 jobs despite profits rising to more than $1 billion

Disney had earlier announced upbeat financial results, led by gains at its theme parks

The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: Disney’s magic kingdom finds itself at the centre of a culture war

The entertainment giant might be going from strength to strength financially, but political turmoil in the once liberal Sunshine State and demands from an activist investor now threaten it from all sides

Clear vision: Amid falling subscriptions and a sharp drop in income, what are Netflix’s next moves?

After years of emphasising growth above profit, Netflix has lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of this year. Will a crackdown on viewer account sharing reverse the trend, or must the streaming giant turn to more creative, innovative solutions to get its numbers back up?

Matt Cooper: The collapse of Abramovich’s empire lays bare the devalued standards of the British Premier League

Chelsea Football Club, which lived off financial top-ups from its Russian owner for 19 years, should not now be given public funds to pay the eye-watering wages of players

Emer McLysaght: When the stars come to town, all bets are off

Nothing sparks a small Irish town into life quicker than the arrival of a few Hollywood A-listers to shoot their latest movie