At a time when considerable risks exist across the economy and for business in general, it is worth contemplating how successful companies thrive.
Markets corrupt by making everything in society a commodity and the risks are enormous, finds Tom O’Connor
Founded in 2009 with the aim of creating a pillow that would be impervious to infection, Gabriel Scientific has seen its hermetically sealed pillow used in hospitals around Europe, but is not resting on its laurels and has ambitious growth plans, writes Trish Dromey
AirSpeed Telecom sales director Brendan Martin talks to Vincent Ryan about his busy working day
In the biggest challenge of her six-and-a-half years in office, German chancellor Angela Merkel walks a fine line between appearing to be a soft touch, and displaying a lack of commitment to the maintenance of the eurozone, writes Kyran Fitzgerald
A spreading bank run could hasten Greece’s exit from the eurozone but it doesn’t have to end that way.
The challenge for Ireland to emerge from the very deep hole in which it has found itself since 2007 was always going to be extremely difficult.
Unite’s Brian Gallagher was handed a poisoned chalice when negotiating job cuts with Aviva, but the union official scored a victory by cutting the number of redundancies and securing 220 jobs for Galway, writes Kyran Fitzgerald
The debate on the fiscal compact treaty has rapidly, and predictably, gone off the rails of the treaty and onto tracks that are only vaguely parallel.
Is the sharing of state legal briefs the beginning of a trend?
I think about my mother’s old age pension which she and her generation deserve after a life bringing families up safely in this state.
The fact that Etihad’s energetic chief executive is showing interest in our one-time national carrier spells good news at a time when Ireland’s economy is in rebuilding mode, writes Kyran Fitzgerald
Three decades ago, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was confronted with a nation bordering on irrelevance, a stagnant economy and a set of entrenched beliefs about the relationship between the government and the people.
The debate on the referendum on the Intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, otherwise known as the fiscal compact, kicked off in earnest this week.
Most weeks I turn on to Ship Street on approach to Cork and wonder what on earth is going on with the docks in the city.
Recent US research suggests that not only are many recoveries from crashes jobless for a long time, but that they also see the destruction of large numbers of middle- class jobs.
The final months of last year were dominated by escalating and justifiable concerns about the euro’s viability.
The “Queen of Mean”, the late billionaire Leona Helmsley, is reputed to have once said publicly that “we do not pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes”. Mind you, that was before she spent time in clink on tax evasion charges.
Eli Lilly & chief executive John Lechleiter said rising sales of the antidepressant Cymbalta and animal drugs stemmed losses from generic competition, helping the company’s earnings beat estimates.
Have you been exposed to the great commodity swindle?
Europe, China, and the UK have been driving the growth in the Irish food and beverage sector.
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