Ex-representative refusing to play ball and hand over documents in case valued at €200m ‘Lord of the Dance’ Michael Flatley pictured in the InterContinental Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren A row between Michael Flatley and his former solicitor is harming his bid to assert control over the Lord of the Dance, the entertainer’s new lawyers have … Read more
Kevin Callinan rejected businessman Denis O’Brien’s claim that home working is a mistake and said state employees need more security about hybrid arrangements. His negotiating team will also seek to make up lost ground after research revealed that the average household lost 2pc of disposable income in the budget. Mr Callinan will be chief negotiator … Read more
The Stripe co-founder, whose company value has jumped to $159bn, also said Trump’s US tariffs have not damaged international trade, but overly-strict bank lending rules are damaging small firms Stripe co-founder John Collison People are getting “more fed up” with slow progress on infrastructure and services in Ireland, according to John Collison, the billionaire co-founder … Read more
Plus, Paschal Donohoe’s bedside books, Denis O’Brien in deeper South America and the housing tsar’s new home Siobhán McSweeney in ‘The Traitors Ireland’, made by Kite for RTÉ British TV viewers in need of a fix after their fourth series of The Traitors, presented by Claudia Winkleman, didn’t have long to wait. The Irish version, … Read more
Kieran Cuddihy and I are chatting in Taste cafe near the Newstalk studio. We talk briefly about how I’m neurotically using two different audio recorders. He can relate. “I was interviewing Domhnall Gleeson recently and I forgot to turn the recorder on,” he says. “Halfway through the interview I saw it and he saw me … Read more
Michael Lowry TD and Belle Vue, former home of Doncaster Rovers FC. Photo: Matthew Ashton via Getty Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty looked to the past on Thursday when he declared in the Dáil: “Let me put some new information on to the record. Deputy Lowry had 57 meetings in relation to the Doncaster deal, … Read more
Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll indicates Aras race is between Mairead McGuinness, Michael McDowell, Bertie Ahern – and Tommy Tiernan Last week it emerged that a garda file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DDP) arising from a criminal investigations into the tribunal’s findings. Only 24c of respondents in the latest Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks … Read more