- Tougher rules-based code seeks to protect financial services consumersANALYSIS: Central Bank rules, if adopted, will put more fiscal responsibility on the country’s banks, writes CONOR POPE, PriceWatch Editor
- Nama transfer process creating gridlock for businesses in need of creditOPINION : The need for Nama to offer non-construction credit facilities has not been legislated for, writes DERMOT BYRNE
- Household savings more than tripled last year - CSOSAVINGS BY households more than tripled in 2009 compared to 2008, according to figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) yesterday.
- Administering healthy dose of optimismTHE FRIDAY INTERVIEW: Debbie Smith managing director Boots Ireland: THE VIEW from the Irish headquarters of Boots in Dublin’s Park West isn’t exactly pretty – the office looks out on an abandoned building site littered with unused machinery and potholes. It could be a metaphor for the Irish economy but Debbie Smith, newly minted Boots Ireland managing director, isn’t the type to let it get to her.
- Trying to protect the pensions of now and the futureECONOMICS : PENSIONS ARE in the news for all the wrong reasons. Three-quarters ofprivate sector defined benefit schemes – the classic good pension – arebroke and/or closing, while pending spending cuts put public-sectorpensions under the microscope as well.
- Planet BusinessA round-up of today’s other stories in brief
- Good times rolling at O2ATTENDEES AT the recent get-together of the Telecoms and InternetFederation (Tif) would have left with the impression that the industryis struggling through the recession.
- Desmond gets a good resultDERMOT DESMOND may not be happy with events in Dublin Castle this week, but results from one of his technology investments may provide some cheery distraction.
- Lured to post-apartheid South Africa by the promise of opportunityWILDGEESE : EMIGRANT BUSINESS LEADERS ON OPPORTUNITIES ABROAD: Paul O’Riordan, Chief Executive Officer, Synexa Life Sciences
- Nyberg's recruits to crisis commission worked outside banking and IrelandNOT ONLY is Peter Nyberg’s commission of investigation into the banking crisis not going to name names when it comes to the errant lending that led to the domestic financial crisis, it is reluctant to disclose the identities of its own staff.
- Irish-based energy firm surging since launchIRISH-BASED and London-listed US Oil and Gas has been under the radar since it launched on the Plus market – a specialist market for small and mid-sized companies – at 8 pence last January.
- One-third set €500 limit on festive shoppingMORE THAN a third of Irish consumers – 37 per cent – have set themselves a budget of €500 for Christmas this year, according to an online survey. About 90 per cent of respondents said they will not be spending more on festive shopping this year than last year, with the main cutbacks coming on purchases of gifts and alcohol.
- Shh . . . Bill O'Herlihy's secret is outA CURIOUS judgment appeared in this week’s Stubbs Gazette. Public Relations of Ireland, which trades as Bill O’Herlihy’s PR firm, O’Herlihy Communications, landed a €34,700 judgment against a company called Secrets Shhh (Ireland), which has a registered office on Congress Road in Cork.
- Feed B@ckLast week we asked:
- Leader of the packFRIDAY INTERVIEW: PHILIP BROWNE , IRFU chief executive
- Senator tied to Fingleton in €13.5m deal that went sourAn upcoming case confirms Fingleton’s close business ties to a politician in a speculative land deal, writes SIMON CARSWELL , Finance Correspondent
- Union leader who aims to do battle with the ToriesINTERVIEW : The leader of the GMB union will be in the front line of opposition to Conservative cuts, writes Mark Hennessy, London Editor
- Economists mull banks and budgets, but ignore jobsECONOMICS : EVERY YEAR since 1978 Kenmare and its inhabitants have been subject toan influx of economists and policy wonks for a weekend in October.Scores of dismal scientists descend on the scenic Kerry town. Theylisten to a dozen or so papers presented on matters topical and not sotopical. They quiz the speakers. They debate and discuss. At coffeebreaks they hobnob. After each day’s work, they share ideas whilebreaking bread and slacking their thirst, usually long into the night.
- Planet BusinessA look back at the week in business
- Conlon wins prestigious award for pioneering businessBRIAN CONLON, founder and chief executive of the Co Down-headquarteredfirm First Derivatives, was awarded the title of 2010 Ernst & YoungEntrepreneur of the Year at a ceremony in Dublin’s Citywest last night.
- Glennon brothers' timber firm takes industry accoladeLONGFORD BROTHERS Mike and Pat Glennon scooped the top accolade in theIndustry category at this year’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Yearawards.
- Bright ideas of solar energy innovator win just rewardsDUBLIN-BORN CONRAD Burke, who is the founder of the Silicon Valley solar energy company Innovalight, was named Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year at last night’s ceremony.
- Yelp is on its way thanks to a dotcom veteran from LaoisWILD GEESE : Bryan Byrne Director of business and revenue products at Yelp
- One more thingMusgrave GB turns oft-quoted corner; Moody feeling flat about C&C; upwardly mobile aspirations; recession's a gift for Dawson
- Feedb@ckLAST WEEK : We asked: Would the availability ot apps influence which smartphone you would buy?
- Man to whip North into fiscal shapeINTERVIEW: With London unveilingits spending review, the Assembly must get its balance sheet in order.
FRANCES McDONNELL interviews Northern Ireland Minister for Finance Sammy Wilson
- Trip the floodlight fantasticTHE FRIDAY INTERVIEW: Chris Jackman, CEO of Shared Access
- We built our businesses and we will do so again, insists ShovlinANALYSIS: Developer says low thresholds on unpaid loans revealed banks’ desire to attain business, writes COLM KEENA
- Planet businessBy LAURA SLATTERY
- A prescription to curb critically high healthcare costsECONOMICS: Irish healthcare costs have risen more rapidly than anywhere else in Europe in the face of an inactive Government, writes DAN O'BRIEN
- Beauty and the boomFRIDAY INTERVIEW: David Pyott, Allergan chief executive
- A high-stakes case of common vs individual good - and which side Nama is serving betterANALYSIS: BUSINESSMAN PADDY McKillen may claim to own quality properties, even properties that may have not lost their lustre as “trophy purchases” since the boom, but he has massive borrowings with banks that are only still in business because of Government support.
- Recruiting a new nameIN MAY 2008, Kerry-born entrepreneur Pat Fitzgerald was ready to take on the world.
- Retailer still enjoying rub of the greenSELLING IRISH tourist-related paraphernalia continues to be a money spinner for retailer Carrolls of Dublin.
- High price of due process outlined in McKillen caseTO MANY, developer Paddy McKillen’s claim that the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) should at least have been willing to engage with him about the transfer of his Anglo loans might be reasonable.
- Time for shake-out of banking lobby groupsWITH ALLIED Irish Banks set to become the latest of our financial institutions to fall into State ownership, what now for the myriad lobby groups that represent the sector?
- Little thingsON MONDAY, Etihad Airways announced details of its annual two-for-one offer for its Pearl business class services from Ireland to Asia and Australia.
- Planet businessBy LAURA SLATTERY
- How a 'milk round' job led to a career in Asian propertyWILDGEESE - EMIGRANT BUSINESS LEADERS ON OPPORTUNITIES ABROAD: Colin MacDonald, Chief executive, Fine Grain Property, Singapore
- Voters vitriolic as bailout scheme hailed a successUNITED STATES: Commended by economists, the Troubled Asset Relief Programme remains deeply unpopular among the US public, writes NIALL STANAGE in New York
- New regime would restore power to Bank of EnglandBRITAIN: Regulatory reforms in the UK are still being drawn up but at their core is the aim of bolstering the system should banks collapse, writes MARK HENNESSY London Editor
- Merger of public sector giants would redraw map of European bankingLANDESBANKEN: BayernLB and WestLB are talking about pooling resources, write JAMES WILSON and Gerrit Wiesmann
- German regulation is still work in progressGERMANY: A planned bank levy and Hypo rescue are causing concern among experts, banks and consumers, writes DEREK SCALLY in Berlin
- Ringing change at EircomTHE FRIDAY INTERVIEW/Paul Donovan Eircom chief executive: LOOKING ACROSS the Phoenix Park from a room on the seventh floor of Eircom’s impressive glazed head office beside Heuston station, Englishman Paul Donovan remarks on the many “hidden gems” in Dublin.
- India Inc may spice up Irish economyIndia and Ireland have a natural affinity which should facilitate further trade and investment opportunities, claims Ireland’s consul general in Bangalore, writes MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent in Bangalore
- Safe haven or bubble: what awaits investors turning to gold?Gold is one of the few assets still performing, soaring so far this year by almost 20 per cent, writes FIONA REDDAN
- Planet businessLAURA SLATTERY peruses the week in business
- Signs suggest IMF is in tune with IrelandECONOMICS: In the event of a bailout Ireland would have to change its budgetary approach, but the process would not be as bad as feared, writes DAN O'BRIEN
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| PROVIDENCE RESOURCES PLC - ESM | 3.6 | 12.50 |
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| ALLIED IRISH BANKS PLC | 0.32 | -4.48 |
| KENMARE RESOURCES PLC | 0.23 | -6.12 |
| IRISH LIFE & PERMANENT GROUP HOLDINGS PLC | 1.347 | -7.74 |
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