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Five Degrees of Change: Erinch Sahan

Head of Enterprise at Doughnut Economics Action Lab explains why the ownership structures and governance of businesses need to change

Easy entertaining: how to create an Irish cheeseboard fit for any festive gathering

A cheeseboard is such a wonderful and convenient course over the Christmas season. Serve your festive cheeseboard as part of a large party spread, or make it the meal itself when visitors pop by. Partner content with Dunnes Stores Simply Better

Five Degrees of Change: Michelle Murphy

The Social Justice Ireland analyst discussed reducing food waste, putting a carbon tax on food, and how to address transport emissions in rural Ireland

Profit Indeed: Revenues at Irish arm of job listings giant topped €1bn last year

Employment and recruitment firm, which subsequently implemented a hiring freeze, enjoyed its strongest year in Ireland to date

Five Degrees of Change: Laura Burke

The director general of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives her five degrees of change for a greener world

Uniphar acquires Dutch pharmaceutical company for €75m

BModesto focuses on the distribution of medicines, clinical trial services, market authorisation holder and medical device distribution

Five Degrees of Change: Andrew Murphy

The head of buildings and industry with the Environmental Coalition on Standards spoke about how to include aviation emissions in national climate targets, and ban emissions offsetting

The Big Interview

About the protocol, we would say ‘don’t throw the baby out with the bath water’ – Kevin McNamee, Denroy

From hairbrushes to Airbuses, the family-owned Denroy Group makes a wide variety of products and components at its Bangor plant, and its chief executive is hoping that issues around the Northern Ireland protocol can be resolved in ways that don’t affect businesses in the North

Five Degrees of Change: Thomas Duffy

Farmer and agri-environmental consultant spoke about policy changes he would like to see for a sustainable rural Ireland

Davy expects to upgrade Smurfit’s full year earnings forecast by 5 per cent

Upgrade of earnings forecast by analysts from €2.2 billion to €2.3 billion comes after strong Q3 performance from the Dublin-listed group

Marion McKeone: ‘Trump in a dress’ could lead charge of Maga Republicans back to the White House

Polished, telegenic and unflappable, former news anchor Kari Lake is running for governor in Arizona in the US midterms and may even find herself on a Trump 2024 ticket as his running mate

Five Degrees of Change

‘Solar is an area of common ground between farmers and environmentalists’ – Thomas Duffy

The latest guest on our Five Degree of Change podcast series, the vice-president of the European Council of Young Farmers, outlines his personal changes and the policy changes he would like to see, including a ban on below-cost selling of food, to support a sustainable future

Five Degrees of Change: Laura Heuston of Sustainability Works

Heuston spoke about how sustainable finance can help drive change in the private sector and the impact of changing career

Spirits and cocktails had biggest post-Covid bounce, says C&C chief

David Forde, chief executive of C&C Group, said that the cost of living crisis could now lead drinkers to choose less expensive options such as beer and cider

Novartis to cut up to 400 jobs at Dublin operation over two years

Company announced in April it was to cut up to 8,000 staff across its offices worldwide as part of restructuring plans

The Drivers and Challenges of Ireland's IT Landscape

Emmet Ryan talks to Greg Casey, sales director, Digital Realty and Davin Cody, chief technology officer, HPE about 2022 Amárach research on the IT opportunities and challenges facing businesses in Ireland today, from data and hybrid IT, to what the future holds.

Connection that matters

Host Quinton O'Reilly chats to Stephen Butterly, the Head of Fundraising & Business Development at Aware, about the experience, keeping best practices in a remote world and the benefits that came from the switch. Later on, Ciara O’Reilly, head of Products for Three Ireland, about 3Connect and the work that goes into making sure the switch is as seamless as possible.

Ryanair warns it may cut routes if Ireland introduces environmental charge

Airline argues that short-haul flights are a financial necessity so the charge should apply to more environmentally damaging long-haul flights

Microsoft exec says lengthening of working day is happening flexibly

Jared Spataro, corporate vice-president for modern work at the tech giant, was was speaking last week on a visit to its Dublin office

Corporate insolvencies expected to rise 36%

Businesses in the services sector in Ireland account for the highest proportion of corporate insolvencies with 195 in the first nine months of the year