Irish Life Group has paid €468 million in dividends to its overseas parent in the past 18 months, bringing total payments since it was bought from the State during the financial crisis to €1.73 billion. This easily surpasses what it paid the State in 2013 to buy the life and pensions business. Joe Brennan has totted up the numbers.
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What does the future hold for Fair City and The Late Late Show, with plans to possibly outsource the shows from Montrose. Laura Slattery goes behind the scenes at RTÉ in her weekly media column.
In our Your Money Q&A, a reader details how they signed up for AIB’s online banking service and have found it a frustrating experience. Dominic Coyle explains why the domestic banks need to invest more in their digital services to make them more user-friendly.
In Me & My Money, Stephen Gibson, cofounder and chef at Pichet Restaurant, recalls how he lost an entire week’s wages in 2007, while working in Paris. “That feeling of knowing you’ve just worked for free all week really hurt,” he tells Tony Clayton-Lea.
Property investor Ires has seen its shares drift in recent months, as investors bet that a strategic review of the business will deliver little by way of change, writes Cantillon.
After taking €7.3 million off the table last week by selling shares in pharma group Hvivo, Cantillon takes a look at Cathal Friel’s plans for more stock market IPOs.
Uncertainty over US trade policy in the wake of November’s presidential election is already affecting hiring in Ireland by firms operating in the tech sector, according to recruitment specialist Morgan McKinley. Colin Gleeson has the details.
Is climate change a ticking time bomb for investors? Stocktake offers a view.
The number of mergers and acquisitions in the first half of the year fell by 20 per cent due to uncertain economic and political conditions, according to a report from law firm William Fry. Colin Gleeson reports.
McDonald’s has suffered its first global drop in sales since 2020, as consumers around the world balk at the higher cost of burgers, fries and soft drinks.
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