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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

3 months

Heroic rescue just now in Dun Laoghaire.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

3 years

Endless finger-wagging on the radio about young people drinking outdoors. They have been responsible over the last 15 months. They are the ones paying huge rents to live in homes with no gardens while people over 40 screw about not tackling the housing crisis.

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

Serve the food. Pay the crazy rents for poor accommodation. Forget about owning your own home. Wait at the back. Young people really are an afterthought.

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Tom Lyons

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8 months

Statement from Brown Thomas Arnotts.

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Tom Lyons

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5 years

We did it. Thank you to the jury and our legal team led by @SenatorMcDowell with Shane English and John Doyle. Thank you to all my colleagues in the SBP and in journalism who supported us over the last month.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

3 years

If we extend the lockdown we have to allow construction to begin again. No other country in the world is being as restrictive as we are. Closing down private house construction is crazy in a country facing severe housing shortages.

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

On Owen Keegan...worth recalling he has been in the top job in DCC since September 2013...eight years of an unprecedented housing crisis and suffering for so many people in Dublin. It is not all his fault...or any one person...but at some point is it time to switch captains?

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Tom Lyons

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5 years

Much concern among the #marian panel about Denis O'Brien's right to defend his good name. What about my good name and that of @ipkehoe ? Look at the damaging allegations Denis O'Brien gave against us using legal privilege without any evidence.

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Tom Lyons

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2 years

Things you forget...Roman Abrovomich was a bondholder in bust building society Irish Nationwide...and threatened to sue Ireland if we didnt cough up. Simpler times.

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

And so ends Denis O'Brien's decades as one of the world's worst media tycoons. He has lost many hundreds of millions...created a small talk radio station and a few small pop stations in one small country. Otherwise he has overpaid repeatedly and invested badly.

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

Put out more bins and outdoor toilets - make more areas available outdoors. Come up with a plan other than send in the Guards and fence off the area.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

So the bookies remain open...but we can't meet our parents/grandparents in the garden.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

If this shop ever closes then I will know we are in real trouble.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

5 years

Extra floors on Salesforce building in Dublin to be refused tomorrow. Would have created 1000 extra jobs! Crazy an 11 storey building in the docks along the Liffey is seen as too tall.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

It took me 37 years to get a story on page 1 of the Irish Times. My daughter does it in less than 30 days.

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

A query on #InternationalWomensDay in from a member. Was there any women involved in the Davy scandal? None I know of. It was a woman however in the Central Bank who led the team that exposed what happened and fined Davy.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

Losing St Patrick's Day is a hammer blow to our restaurants and bars. Try to support them as best as you can in the time ahead.

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Tom Lyons

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2 years

At some point there needs to be a thorough examination of the finances of Ireland's Putin cheerleaders both in Ireland and overseas.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

6 years

Stepping down from @sundaybusiness after four happy years. Thank you to all my colleagues and friends who helped along the way. On to the next adventure.

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Tom Lyons

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1 year

Lots of rumours about who in Rte had a "loan" of a car for five years and only gave it back yesterday.

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@TomLyonsBiz

1 year

When someone "loans" you a car for five years at zero interest...who pays the insurance and tax on the car?

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

This is a must read from Dermot Desmond this morning. Clearly argued and damning.

Dermot Desmond: Everyone has a right to a home. Here is how it can be done

We have allowed homes to become a globally traded financial asset, inflating the price of those homes, the profits of developers, and the value of the underlying land

www.irishtimes.com

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

There are 100s of people who are working or used to work in Davy who are ethical professionals. At some point, Davy needs to name the 16 to protect the reputations of the vast majority of people who have done nothing wrong.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

5 years

800 new jobs in LinkedIn. We need to allow these people walk to work by allowing taller apartment blocks in the right places and filling in the many vacant sites in Dublin 2 and 4.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

This is a very interesting line in @LeoVaradkar 's interview in @thecurrency today. A lot of businesses I think would agree with it.

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@TomLyonsBiz

4 years

This is nuts. This is only a 13 storey building. It is in a location that suits height with a blue chip tenant and quality design. Who would want to build in Dublin?

High Court quashes permission for Ronan dockland tower

Dublin City Council took judicial review proceedings of Bord Pleanála decision

www.irishtimes.com

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

Is this for real? No working at weekends!

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

Good question.

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Tom Lyons

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28 days

Congrats to the Sunday Independent and Mediahuis for fighting and winning this case. A hugh amount of time and money defending a nonsense action that should never have gone to the High Court. But great to see the right result.

Enoch Burke loses defamation action over Sunday Independent article

Jailed schoolteacher Enoch Burke has lost his defamation action against Mediahuis Ireland over a newspaper article in the Sunday Independent.

m.independent.ie

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

2 years

I presume any Irish tycoons on the boards of Russian oligarchs will be stepping down.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

2 years

FBD saying this morning it plans to pay €35m in dividends to shareholders while pubs - two years on - are still waiting for all their money. Not a good look.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

3 years

This is usually one of the best nights of the year for a pint. Thinking of the many people out of work or worried about the future in that industry.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

To me it is looking like schools reopening on the 11th is unlikely. If that has to be the decision better to let parents and employers know sooner rather than last minute.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

4 years

This day a year ago we launched @thecurrency . Over 1,000 stories later and more than 60 podcasts here we are. Thanks to all the team, all our members, everyone who wrote for us or agreed to be interviewed, and everyone else who supported us in getting there. End of week 1.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

6 years

That's that. Four good years with good people.

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Tom Lyons

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16 days

My friend, our friend, and the friend of so many Tommie Gorman has died. Kind, decent, patient, insightful, inspiring. A tireless campaigner to help people with cancer - a true journalist and great human being. We learned so much from him in @thecurrency .

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

The Attorney General doing a nixer for former directors of INM - a company under investigation by the ODCE - is not a good look. The government should never have allowed it.

AG aiding former INM directors in private capacity with High Court

Government permitted Paul Gallagher deal with outstanding cases after his appointment

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

It was March 2015 that I first reported on the Anglo bond story and Davy. It took until March 2021 to get here. Why did it take so long? Because Davy fought every step of the way to prevent the truth from coming out about 16 of its employees.

Gone: McKiernan, McLaughlin and Nangle bow to growing pressure and exit Davy

Brian McKiernan, the chief executive of Davy, Kyran McLaughlin, its deputy chairman, and its head of bonds, Barry Nangle, have all finally resigned. The resignations of the three high-ranking figures...

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

5 years

So all the journalists from @thecurrency_ have been banned from Denis O’Brien’s @communicorpirl on our first day producing journalism. That includes not just our employees but anyone who contributes to us.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

"Two fingers." It was anything but as a jury of Irish citizens found. Fact is myself and @ipkehoe declined to be intimidated by @denisobrien_ . That is the bottom line backed up by the evidence and a jury. Denis did not even show up for the result.

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Tom Lyons

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1 year

"RTÉ needs to start prioritising its ordinary journalists and staff and stop mollycoddling a wealthy elite. The first step RTÉ needs to take towards recovery is to make itself about journalism, not stars." - my email today.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

3 years

It is bonkers that RTE having been leaked the Beacon report on Monday ran this quote only: "The choice of the school was considered feasible because, for legitimate family reasons, the CEO had the mobile phone number of the headmistress of the school."

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

The short ugly buildings that litter the city causing it to sprawl inside and outside the M50 are the real two fingers to Dubliners. There is nothing wrong with height and ambition in the right locations.

Frank McDonald: Johnny Ronan’s docklands towers give ‘two fingers’ to Dublin

Opinion: The development would stand head and shoulders above the city skyline

www.irishtimes.com

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

2 years

Is there nobody other than Conor Skehan available? I get TV requires contrarian views but come on.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

6 years

Fair bit of criticism of PAC and recently (perhaps not undeserved) but worth remembering @JMcGuinnessTD stood up for Maurice McCabe and helped bring the whole thing out into the open #Whistleblower

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

You can't close a school for two weeks and not expect it's name not to get out there. Better for the state to just name it and move on to keeping the public informed about the important things to do to limit the virus.

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Tom Lyons

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6 years

Lot of talk about parliamentary privilege being abused. But look how @MichealMartinTD used it to help Maurice McCabe and expose the truth #whistleblower

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

This is really good news. We are going to be making vaccines in Ireland!

Revealed: Pfizer’s secret plan to make Covid-19 vaccines in Ireland

Pfizer has been working for months on a secret plan to develop a Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing facility in Ireland, The Currency can reveal. The pharmaceutical giant has had a team of people working...

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Tom Lyons

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3 years

Taller buildings. Less cars. Cork is really accelerating. Dublin not so much.

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Covid-19 will leave a long-term mark on Cork city centre with the pedestrianisation of 18 streets made permanent due to its success.

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Tom Lyons

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7 years

12 months work. 12500 words.

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Tom Lyons

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9 months

Like all bullies, Paddy can dish it, but he can't take it.

Paddy Cosgrave

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9 months

Bye for now. Need some time off this platform. 👋 😢 ✌🏼 ❤️

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

This is a seriously disturbing and brilliant documentary. #UnquietGraves

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Tom Lyons

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6 years

This is pathetic stuff by @campaignforleo . Tone deaf at a time when journalism is under attack in America. And incredible in the week former FG minister Michael Lowry was convicted - exposed by the journalism he sneers at behind closed doors:

Varadkar says he sympathises with Trump on media

Taoiseach in private remarks criticises media interest in the story rather than the truth

www.irishtimes.com

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Tom Lyons

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2 years

So The Times / Sunday Times cleared out an experienced respected team...and are now rehiring presumably on less pay.

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

4 years

So the €9 meal remains enough to justify opening one pub and not another for a while longer. Bizarre but there we are.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

Thousands of businesses are opening today for the first time in nearly three months. Try and go out and spend in those that are local to you. They will all badly need cash flow to get going again.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

Brexit deal is done. What a step back for Britain. But respect to @simoncoveney and all our diplomatic team for staying the course.

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Tom Lyons

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4 years

As often is the case @EOBroin is correct here. @PatKennyNT is wrong that @thecurrency ban by Denis O'Brien's Newstalk has been "sorted."

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@MissAineON @EOBroin @NewstalkFM This was a magical moment

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4 years

Not a good look for a chair at a time of crisis for Irish tourism.

Tourism chief on holidays in Italy amid massive campaign to promote staycations

The head of the country's tourism promotion board has travelled to Italy on holiday, the Irish Independent can reveal.

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Tom Lyons

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9 months

Just recalling a bullying tweet Paddy put out about a journalist in May who has just broke a story about his business. His toxic behaviour has been out in the open for sometime but it hasn't put brands and PR geniuses off working with him.

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3 years

This is incredible. Would the state be doing this if @tom_hubert hadn't looked at it forensically by reading the documents and explaining them? It wouldn't be.

William Fry and EY to examine funding and structure of National Broadband Ireland

Department says this is part of ongoing review of broadband contract

www.irishtimes.com

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Tom Lyons

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2 years

Breaking: @TheNotoriousMMA adds to his pub portfolio with an interesting purchase with a lot of potential.

Conor McGregor adds another pub to his portfolio, down by the Waterside

It is a fishing village best known for its scenic harbour, stunning cliff walks and views of Ireland’s Eye. Now, the Dublin village of Howth is set to become the home of a new pub owned by mixed...

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Tom Lyons

@TomLyonsBiz

4 years

Also on #golfgate people like @daracalleary and @OrourkeseanSean made a mistake and paid a price for it. Neither deserves eternal banishment. The achievements of @OrourkeseanSean in journalism are immense. One mistake doesn't wipe out decades of great journalism.

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3 years

Erasing a part of Irish economic, legal and business history from Google.

From €100k wedding cake, Christmas in jail and trips to Russia – 11 stories Seán Quinn’s family...

The family of ex-billionaire Seán Quinn has convinced Google to ‘forget’ much of their past, including reports of lavish spending and court battles over th...

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5 years

After 9 months @ipkehoe hitting start on @TheCurrency_ going live:

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3 years

Davy is not a "private matter" as its chairman John Corrigan insists. It advises Ireland and some of our biggest employers. It manages pension funds and charity money.

Driven by money: how the “Davy 16” was assembled and how the Anglo bonds deal was pulled off

This is a story that begins and ends with personal gain. It involves a plan that went to the very top of Davy, Ireland’s most prestigious stockbroking firm and a firm that advises the Irish state in...

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Tom Lyons

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By the way @thecurrency_ had agreed to advertise with @todayfm as we like the station and are grown-ups. We have asked for this money to be refunded so we can invest it somewhere that believes in quality journalism regardless of who creates it.

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5 years

End of week 1 of @TheCurrency_

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4 years

The staycation is going well so far (bar the weather).

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Davy has just issued a statement confirming our story. CEO, deputy chair, head of bonds all gone.

Davy chief executive Brian McKiernan and others on brink of resigning

The board of Davy has told chief executive Brian McKiernan, along with a number of other high ranking figures at the broker involved in the Anglo bond scandal, to resign. Independent directors of the...

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4 years

In Blackrock just now.

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3 years

Another wild Friday night.

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6 years

So 10 years, millions of euro, thousands of hours of investigations later...the Central Bank has fined the former chairman of Irish Nationwide €20,000 (and a three year disqualification).

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3 years

Will be publishing a long read on the fallout between the founders of Web Summit in the next few minutes. An amazing story.

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1 year

What a brave woman Ciara Mangan is interviewed by @Orlaodo . Her former colleagues who bullied and sang songs should listen and be deeply ashamed. I hope it catches up with them.

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There is a fair argument that Marian Finucane's 2008 interview with Sean FitzPatrick was the interview of the financial crash. She was by no means a banking expert but it was incredibly telling and revealing.

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The Currency is 2 years old. Thanks to everyone who has supported us to date. @ipkehoe is writing today on how it all happened (outside paywall).

A life in a day and a day in the life: Behind the scenes at The Currency’s first day in business

Pete Smyth is one of life’s eternal optimists. And, more often than not, that optimism is not misplaced. A successful entrepreneur in his own right, he has backed a string of successful businesses...

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5 years

Congratulations @PearseDoherty and @CathMurphyTD . A lot at stake. A good day for freedom of expression.

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4 years

This is a big story. The power required just by Amazon in Ireland is absolutely massive.

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Amazon’s data centres will need more power than a million Irish homes – but where from?

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Maybe people will remember this. The owner of the Beacon has been a major beneficiary of the state for decades and continues to be. What a shame the favour can not be returned when asked for in our time of need.

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Reid says it’s “beyond belief” that the Beacon Hospital hasn’t signed up to the deal to give extra beds to the Health Service at a time of unparalleled national crisis. He says he’s “frustrated” by this and is appealing to the Beacon to come on board.

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4 years

Am I the only one that thinks €450,000 is nothing for Twitter?

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Quite a number in my local big brand supermarket not wearing masks and not using hand sanitizer on the way in. Most buying drink. When we go back into lockdown - closing many small businesses taking Covid seriously again - maybe we will make big retailers enforce restrictions.

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The bravery and skill of @RNLI in rescuing a child from the sea off Dun Laoghaire was incredible. Thank you to the three volunteers who spoke to me and all the rescue services who helped them. Article is free to read. @garyhayes84 @Niamh_St @DLCoastGuard

“Her eyes were wide open and she was calling for help. She knew we were there”

Andrew Sykes was sitting on his couch watching Leinster play Leicester in the Champions Cup when the beeper on his hip began to vibrate. The message was clear and it told him to go immediately to the...

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4 years

The more this inquiry goes on. The more shocking it becomes.

Grenfell inquiry hears Kingspan rigged tests and hired lobbyists after fire

Hearing told the firm feared ban on combustible insulation and drew up list of political targets

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Depressing seeing a gambling company sponsoring yet another show about sporting heroes.

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3 years

Breaking on @thecurrency some news about @TheNotoriousMMA #MMA #UFC

McGregor returns to the scene of his crime – and buys it

It was the scene of one of his most infamous scuffles that led to a courtroom apology and minor fine. Now Conor McGregor has returned to the bar where he assaulted a man in 2019 and is set to buy it....

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Seriously impressive response. Thankfully the person was saved and taken to hospital.

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If Paul Gallagher (senior counsel) was cross examining Paul Gallagher (attorney general) - Paul Gallagher (SC) would not accept the derisory responses given about the private sector work of Paul Gallagher (AG).

Call for answers on Attorney General’s private work grows louder

Sources say Paul Gallagher recently acted for former INM directors in High Court hearing

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4 years

This pubs collecting lists of what we have eaten is pretty mental. Does it really matter...are we really going to check them?

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4 years

Personal view: Apple employs 6000 people in Ireland. Long history of investment in Cork in good and bad times. Yes, it has a massive tax issue that has to be addressed. But there is nothing wrong with the Taoiseach marking it's long history here. Ditto Intel, Microsoft etc.

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3 years

Unbelievable. This shop is closing...after 50 years (and one pandemic.)

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If this shop ever closes then I will know we are in real trouble.

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Breaking business story on @TheNotoriousMMA . He is spending €19 million assembling a site in his hometown of Dublin 12 - that could house over 300 units.

To his titles as UFC fighter, whiskey entrepreneur and publican… Conor McGregor can add property...

He is one of the world’s highest-paid athletes, a whiskey entrepreneur and a publican. Now add property developer to the many hats worn by Conor McGregor, who topped the Forbes top 10 athlete rich...

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Can the journalists who have been luck enough to have been leaked the report into the Beacon...go back and read the 83-page report again. If it has been "seen by RTÉ News" why don't you quote from it? Or consider publishing it in full.

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Well worded apology from PwC on that #Oscars embarrassment:

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This is a must watch from @nytimes .

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There can be a lot of negativity about Irish journalism. But the quality in the last 24 hours has been unbelievable.

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I didn't see how the person ended up in the water. But they were really struggling. Brave people were really trying to help but the waves were really big and they couldn't reach them. @RNLIDunLaoghair , the Guards and other rescue services prevented a serious tragedy.

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I had a lovely indoor lunch in a restaurant today. Staff wearing masks. Big distance between tables. Plenty of airflow. Hand sanitizer. Really tough to close them down. Our restaurants are doing their absolute best to minimise risk.

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6 years

David Drumm found guilty - only took ten years!

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Investment funds buying up whole estates is the inevitable outcome of government policy over the last decade. We've known about this since Nama offloaded 10s of 1000s of apartments and homes to funds at steep discounts in big bundles.

Investment funds buying whole estates is 'undesirable' and the government needs to act, says Leo...

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien says a Bill he introduced in 2019 on the issue is “still valid”.

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