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Life after Line Up: David McHugh on building – and selling – a sports marketing firm

Life after Line Up: David McHugh on building – and selling – a sports marketing firm

David McHugh bristles at the word “agent”. He’s heard it too many times. The caricature is well-worn: the Del Boy figure, the Mr Five Per Cent, the man behind the curtain with the hands...

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Bronto roars as it closes $14m seed round

Bronto roars as it closes $14m seed round

In May, serial entrepreneur Noel Ruane hinted that Bronto, the log data platform built for the AI era, was starting to raise capital.​ ​“We believe the opportunity here is to create €10...

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Red flags and pensions: New files reveal 40 former ministers and current cabinet impacted by payroll blunder

Red flags and pensions: New files reveal 40 former ministers and current cabinet impacted by payroll blunder

A total of 40 former ministers, as well as 34 current ministers and senior officials, are affected by the National Shared Services Office (NSSO) pension payments blunder, released inter...

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Majority steak: Why Dawn Meats is paying twice as much for its NZ deal as it did in France a decade ago

Majority steak: Why Dawn Meats is paying twice as much for its NZ deal as it did in France a decade ago

With the majority acquisition of New Zealand’s Alliance Group, Dawn Meats is launching its second attempt at international expansion beyond Ireland and the UK. There are similarities be...

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“We’re losing precious time”: Julius Baer’s chief investment officer on Europe’s wake-up call

“We’re losing precious time”: Julius Baer’s chief investment officer on Europe’s wake-up call

Yves Bonzon isn’t one to mince his words. The chief investment officer of Julius Baer, the Swiss private bank, is quick to call out all of Europe’s talk on competitiveness but little in...

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Jonathan Keane: Woe at Intel will add further uncertainty to the future of Ireland’s FDI

Jonathan Keane: Woe at Intel will add further uncertainty to the future of Ireland’s FDI

Lip-Bu Tan, in his first earnings call in the CEO chair at Intel, addressed the elephant in the room yesterday evening about how things will change at the chipmaker. “There is no way ar...

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