Business Correspondent at @IrishTimes
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Killian Woods retweeted
Pleased to announce several staff appointments at The Irish Times.
@killianwoods has been appointed Business Correspondent. He joins us from the Business Post, and has been named Business Journalist of the Year at the Irish Journalism Awards for the past two years.
Dartmouth Square home sold for over €2.8m ahead of deal to break MetroLink legal deadlock
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Dublin council calls for stronger powers to tackle vacancy amid deadlock with Dunnes Stores
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Exclusive: Land Development Agency to tap lender for up to €1bn in first ever debt deal businesspost.ie/property/exc…
The exit of Jim Jennings from RTÉ cost the broadcaster close to €500,000 last year.
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The owners of the Clerys Quarter in Dublin city expect to bring the property to market in 2027 once the retail, office and hospitality venue is fully occupied
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Family behind Killarney’s Sheahan hospitality group double profits to €4.6m
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One year in, has government already lost race to build 303,000 homes?
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Revealed: Estate agent Sherry FitzGerald on the verge of major expansion deals
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Five members of senior management at Re-turn, the firm behind the deposit return scheme, were paid a combined €1.1 million in 2024
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Why does Ireland keep importing success but struggle to scale its own? Datavant’s CTO Josh Builder breaks down the missing pieces in the country’s startup pipeline.
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Cairn Homes told it can’t build 640-home Swords estate until Metrolink is running
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Exclusive: Cabinet to approve radical changes to rent laws aimed at driving apartment building
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Secretaries general don't often say much publicly, but Graham Doyle of Department of Housing has made some very interesting remarks about the housing tsar role.
Top civil servant in housing department tells industry Ireland ‘doesn’t need’ a housing tsar
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I've been keeping a close eye on companies providing services to refugees in Ireland this past year.
New records for Igo Cafe Limited show just how profitable the €2bn industry has become.
Pay to the firm's two directors has more than trebled to €4.6m
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On the @businessposthq now, we have published an extensive investigation conducted with @Aidan_Regan into Ireland’s Tax Mirage.
It has unprecedented detail on how much IP has been moved into Ireland in the past decade and in-depth analysis of the tax avoidance this facilitated
Ireland’s Tax Mirage: Business Post investigation exposes how vulnerable Ireland is businesspost.ie/article/irel…
Many weeks were put into pulling this together and many late nights reading thousands of lines of spreadsheets
The result, which wouldn’t have come to fruition without @peterodwyer1, shows how much the Irish economy is at risk by Trump’s economic plans
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The collapse of 23&me got me thinking about Genomics Medicine Ireland.
GMI used €66m in taxpayer funds to build up a huge Irish genome database.
But it was then taken over by a company in Boston.
I tried to contact that company’s CEO last week …
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Interesting deal here showing the influence of the international protection accommodation service (IPAS) on comm prop sector.
- Property goes to market in Nov 2024 at €2.5m
- Sold for €3.15m in early March
- Days later it's confirmed the property will be an IPAS housing centre
A landmark Dublin city building, which in recent weeks sold for 26 per cent above the guide price, is being turned into an international protection accommodation service (IPAS) housing centre, the Business Post can reveal.
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This Sunday’s edition. Pick up a copy in stores or subscribe at businesspost.ie:
🗞️ Inside Micheál Martin’s private meeting with business execs in Washington DC
🗞️ Our new Life&Luxury section
🗞️ McKillen snr-led firm defaulted on mega loans
