December 27, 2009
Things couldn't have gone much worse for the property sector this year, with prices continuing to fall and the outlook remaining distinctly gloomy. The construction industry will hope that ...
December 27, 2009
Recently, I wrote about the importance of businesses ensuring their IT systems were updated, patched and properly configured before the Christmas period kicked in because this was when hackers came ...
December 27, 2009
This hasn't been a good year for anyone, but it has been especially bad for small business. Trapped between declining demand in a shrinking economy and extremely tight lending ...
December 27, 2009
An unexpected surge in retail sales after the budget has put a gloss on what was otherwise a truly horrendous year for most retailers. Many will find themselves unable to ...
December 27, 2009
'I don't know who invented that f*****g word 'starchitect'. In fact, a journalist invented it, I think. I am not a 'star-chitect', I am an ar-chitect..." Just 10 ...
December 27, 2009
Dylan Griffiths, Warren Giles and Carolyn Bandel
Geneva, touted as a haven for London bankers facing heavier UK taxes, may lure fewer than predicted thanks to a housing shortage, crowded schools and a 44% income-tax rate. Barclays ...
December 27, 2009
Neil Callanan
Developer Sean Dunne has told Dublin City Council that a shop run by his wife Gayle Killilea in the former Jury's hotel in Ballsbridge in Dublin 4 does not ...
December 27, 2009
The EU is unlikely to bail Greece out of its financial difficulties, according to Joaquin Almunia, the European Union's economic and affairs commissioner. Instead the country's government will ...
December 27, 2009
For most of the decade we lived through the best of times. And when the party was over the blame was easily shifted onto the banks, the politicians and the property developers. But, argues Shane Coleman, we all had a part to play in creating the malaise. And we can get ourselves out of it...
It was in the early hours of the morning in a café in the centre of Dublin not long after the beginning of the millennium. A group of revellers ...
December 27, 2009
Making billions of dollars is "not that hard", David Tepper tells people. Away from the pride and bluster of Wall Street, in a modest office in suburban New ...