Making it Work Rainmaker targets European and Asian airlines in expansion bidDublin-based travel tech company on target to surpass its pre-Covid sales this year
Companies Sales hit €433m at Boots Ireland as retailer enjoys post-Covid bounceRevenues rose 14% at the company’s 90 Irish stores in 2021 as profits moved upwards
Housing Living with mica: ‘It’s bulls**t about this being a full 100% redress grant, it’s just insulting’Owners of crumbling homes say they cannot afford the repairs on their unsafe, leaking properties — and the government’s redress scheme designed to end the mica crisis is instead prolonging the trauma
Making it Work Cora Systems grows by 330 per cent in past 12 monthsLeitrim-based Cora Systems, which provides project management software to large firms and government organisations, has already passed €60 million of sales in its current financial year
Media Staff at Sunday Times and Times Ireland offered voluntary redundancy in overhaulCompany has told three quarters of its 20-person staff they will have to re-apply for their jobs
Companies Eddie Hobbs counts ‘economic war against Russia’ among main risks to his companyProfits at the company run by the outspoken financial adviser and former TV presenter nearly tripled in 2021
Media Journalists at Sunday Times and Times Ireland edition face redundancy threat Some 15 out of 20 editorial staff at the Dublin-based operation have to reapply for their jobs as part of a cost cutting plan
‘Low risk’ of major roads projects being abandoned due to inflation‘No projects presently under construction’ will be abandoned, Transport Infrastructure Ireland tells Public Accounts Committee
Transport Private firms making thousands a month in unclaimed toll change from motoristsCompanies who operate toll plazas under an arrangement with Transport Infrastructure Ireland made an average of €17.8m in 2021
Housing Construction inflation risks scuppering social housing projects, expert group warnsIrish Council for Social Housing tells Oireachtas committee that approved housing bodies are finding it harder to secure sufficient levels of professional indemnity when obtaining loans
Making it Work Sisters ready to share their luxury handcrafted chocolate far and wideNatalie and Karen Keane have a vision for their artisan chocolate company Bean and Goose, with high-quality ingredients and wrappings that tell a contemporary Irish story
Making it Work The Vitamin Ones aiming to change nutritional industry with ‘neat’ ideaThe health company, founded last year, is seeking to raise €2.5m in funding to develop its supplements which have no additives such as caffeine or sweeteners
Housing ‘Majority of homes damaged by defective blocks need to be knocked down’ Expert on concrete technology says if there are cracks in the walls ‘and at the same time you have internal sulphates discovered . . . you don’t have an option – you have to demolish’
Making it Work CergenX raises €800k for newborn brain screening technologyThe UCC spin-out is developing software that can screen for brain abnormalities in babies
education Key report into UL’s Dunnes site purchase took eight months longer than planned KPMG’s investigation into UL’s acquisition of the €8m site was due to be completed in under a month but took far longer, causing delays to scrutiny of the deal
Legal State’s plan to take money won in mica legal actions is ‘probably unconstitutional’, law firm warnsColeman Legal has urged the government to ‘immediately’ withdraw a provision that means the state will take over legal actions taken by homeowners if they’re signed up to its redress scheme
Housing Faulty blocks scheme ‘inflexible, cynical, illogical and blinkered’, mica campaigners claimHomeowners told the housing committee the scheme will in reality be closer to an 80 per cent grant than the 100 per cent redress promised by the government
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Housing Mica homeowners will not be able to take legal action if they sign up to state’s redress scheme The clause, contained in the general scheme of the mica bill, is likely to impact hundreds of homeowners who have signed up to a legal action
Justice Criminal Assets Bureau says proposed Magnitsky Act has ‘no practical benefit’Bureau’s comments cast doubt on a bill designed to seize the assets of human rights violators in cases where they’re being stored in Ireland