Culture Succession auction takes in over €500,000 as ‘ludicrously capacious’ bag and other props sell to fans US Heritage Auctions saw 236 lots of memorabilia go under the hammer as fans bid on clothing, accessories and written collectibles from the HBO series
Book Review Book Review: A gloriously gossipy tell-all on the demise of television as we know it Dynamic, droll, and punchy tome traces the journey from high point of cable television to the slippery slope of the streamers
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Succession succeeds above all others in depicting reality of business worldThe hit television series about the corporate greed of Logan Roy and his family may be fiction but much of it is based on the reality of how high finance operates in that rarefied world
Trends Street stealth: the season’s best quiet luxury style momentsStealth wealth dressing is spilling from the on-screen affairs of HBO’s Succession to the off-screen celebrity and street style circles
Long Read Keeping it in the family: How Irish businesses handle the tricky issue of succession planningThe hit HBO series Succession follows the turmoil in the ultra-wealthy Roy family as the family’s patriarch steps down (or doesn’t) as head of Waystar Royco. But how do the tens of thousands of family-owned Irish businesses handle the tricky issue of succession planning? Ellie Donnelly investigates
Style Shiv Roy’s best Succession outfits: from the sold-out backless dress to the power player suitA purveyor of quiet luxury, Shiv Roy’s best outfits are a touch of class and a nod to the world’s one per cent – and we can expect this to level up in season four
The Big Interview The Sunday Interview: Paul Kearns Paul Kearns and Brian Hefferon took over the helm of Kefron, the IT and storage business, from their fathers, the firm’s co-founders, and aim to grow turnover to €50 million over the next five years
The Big Interview ‘Get guidance on succession, it’s something you only do once a generation’ – Rachel O’Connor, GPGA carefully handled succession process now sees the O’Connor family’s thriving paint business safe in the hands of the founder’s granddaughter, who is steering it towards a sustainable future
Ian Guider: We can laugh at Succession, but it’s not far removed from realityThe award-winning comedy-drama is back, reminding us that even its most fantastical plotlines have unsettling parallels in the real-life world of big business
The Profile: Brian Cox, success and successionThe veteran actor shares a difficult childhood and a volatile temper with his Succession character, the foul-mouthed capitalist patriarch Logan Roy, but not the capitalism