Business
Monopoly takes a 'chance' on Cork
Cork isn't being snubbed this week. Quite the contrary. The city and the county have joined a global elite with their very own version of the game ...
October 24, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Daragh Muldowney's entrepreneurial art
You might expect Ireland's economic troubles to have hit artists more than other communities since their incomes are typically more tenuous. That m...
October 24, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Yanks save Clerys
It would be like losing Macy's. Clerys, the iconic Dublin department store, will remain in business after a Boston-based equity group, Gordon Broth...
October 03, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Ryanair a persistent suitor
EU officials are still pondering it, Irish government officials appear opposed to it, and not a few fans of Aer Lingus are worried by it. But the p...
October 03, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Belleek goes for top dollar
Times might be tough but when you are crafting art for posterity it's not the same as a cellphone: cool today, obsolete tomorrow. So Belleek Potter...
October 03, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Meet the energizer CEO running Revlon
By Maura Kelly On a recent, balmy Wednesday evening, Alan T. Ennis, President and CEO of Revlon, Inc. joined members of the Irish Business Organiza...
September 27, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Way down and a tiny uptick
If you bought a house in Dublin five years ago, tough luck. That year was the peak of the property bubble. House prices in the Irish capital are no...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Too soon for new tax
Fianna Fáil is calling on the Fine Gael/Labour government to sideline the introduction of the property tax, due to be introduced next year, chargin...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Ryanair Lingus bid on hold
The European Commission is to carry out an "in depth investigation" into Ryanair's bid for control of Aer Lingus. The commission has long- fingere...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Classic spawned sideline business huddle
The Emerald Isle Classic was about a lot more than football. For one thing it was a curtain raiser to the Gathering, the Irish government's ambitio...
September 10, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
Buckley new INM chair
Cork businessman Leslie Buckley has been appointed chairman of the board of Independent News & Media at an extraordinary general meeting held in Du...
August 31, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Business
First a charge, now a tax
Hundreds of thousands of Irish homeowners have yet to register to pay the €100 household charge mandated by the government. But if many people are ...
August 31, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff