Brooks Hotel in Dublin to close for three months for €6m makeover
Four-star hotel on Drury Street in Dublin will close at the end of October and reopen at the end of January 2025
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Battery technology leap comes into play in power plant planning dispute with stud farm
Strategic Power Projects lodges redesigned plan for battery storage system
Sky Ireland boosts broadband services through wholesale deal with Virgin Media
Partnership allows Sky to enhance its offer to customers and comes amid a €200m network upgrade by Virgin
If Netflix and Disney+ have ditched your favourite shows, here’s what’s going on
Hugh Linehan: The era of peak TV is over – so the Hollywood strikes may be a blessing for studios that were making too many programmes
Virgin Media parent agrees €1.5bn digital platform deal with Infosys
Indian software services giant will use ‘AI first’ technology to ‘evolve and scale’ Liberty Global’s set-top boxes
Powerscourt Hotel presses case for staff accommodation block on site
Powerscourt Estate owners, the Slazenger family, have objected to planning approval granted as hotel struggles to secure and retain staff
Going is good for Paddy Jordan, the agent behind some of Ireland’s most lucrative stud sales
Stud farms for oil-rich sheikhs, mansions for media moguls, humble three-bed semi-Ds: Paddy Jordan has bought and sold them all in the course of a storied career
Beacon Hospital €75m extension stalled after appeal lodged
Owners and tenants of apartment complex have made fresh submission on plan
Rugby partners RTÉ and Virgin should unite for more than just balls
More pragmatic alliances may soon be needed to cope with streaming competition
Beacon Hospital gets permission for €75m extension
Council finds scheme does not detract from area’s amenities despite local objections
Seventy apartment owners and tenants oppose €75m Beacon Hospital expansion
Planning application seeks 70-care bed extension and A&E facilities
Virgin TV targets 2019 revenues as it vies to keep Love Island audience all year round
MD Paul Farrell on The Big Deal, daytime changes and sharing Six Nations with RTÉ
Beacon Hospital to lodge €75m expansion plan with council
Proposed development involves substantive demolition of eight-storey Beacon Hotel
Eir’s owner Xavier Niel looks to take his business private
French telecoms billionaire launches offer to buy out his €11bn Iliad telecoms empire
Virgin Media Ireland revenues rise 3% in first half of 2021 as data usage soars
Telecoms group also points to advertising recovery at Virgin Media Television
Heat is on as Discovery goes for Olympic streaming gold
Pandemic-struck Tokyo 2020 has shown up size of broadcaster's Games gamble
Friends, episode 237: the one where the takeover goes wrong
It turns out AT&T didn’t have room on its sofa for WarnerMedia after all
Moxy hotel in Dublin sold for €35m in first major sale in sector since pandemic
Property was sold by the Spitzer family’s Midwest Holding group to MHL Hotel Collection
Rohan wins in planning row with Powerscourt Hotel over amphitheatre
An Bord Pleanála rules 214-seater wedding venue requires planning permission
Denis O’Brien’s Beacon Hospital to acquire Beacon Hotel
Hotel purchase is part of €75m investment in expansion of south Dublin private hospital
Pro14 inter-pros denied a full home audience due to Eir and Virgin dispute
296,200 Virgin subscribers won’t have access after Eir removed its channels from platform
Virgin Media vows to withhold sports channels until Eir ‘pays its bill’
Dispute between telecoms rivals flares up as postponed European football reaches climax
Liberty Global to buy Swiss phone carrier Sunrise Communications
Combination will merge Sunrise’s wireless customer base with UPC’s high-speed broadband network
F1 revenues almost wiped out by pandemic halt to races
F1’s revenues plummeted to $24m in the three months to the end of June from $620m in the same quarter of 2019
Trophy Curragh stud farm with exceptional pedigree for €4m
Eyrefield Lodge has bred many champions, including Pretty Polly, one of the all-time greats
Liberty Global chief executive due as much as $123m in compensation
Virgin Media owner says compensation includes income from the next five years
Paul Farrell is the new managing director of Virgin Media Television
Virgin Media Ireland executive will succeed Pat Kiely, who is leaving broadcaster in July
Telefonica’s O2 and John Malone’s Virgin Media could combine UK operations
Companies are discussing a potential deal to bring together Telefonica’s O2 mobile unit and Liberty Global’s Virgin Media, which also operates in Ireland
Saudi wealth fund builds $500m Live Nation stake
Concert promoter is latest big bet on a struggling company as coronavirus pushes share prices down
Five-star Powerscourt made pre-tax profits of €1.8m ahead of sale
MHL Collection, owned by US billionaire John Malone, purchased the hotel last March
Virgin Media Ireland loses 7,100 subscriptions in fourth quarter
Fall in home telephone customers mostly responsible, with TV subscribers rising
Election 2020: Meath West constituency profile
Sinn Féin will try everything to unseat Tóibín and crush his new political party
Virgin Media saw Irish revenues rise 8% in 2018
Broadcaster will preview spring schedule for its three Irish television channels
Fear and loathing at Virgin Media Ireland as strike action looms
Company that is seeking redundancies says wellbeing of staff ‘foremost’ in process
Siptu members back ballot for industrial action at Virgin Media
Unite trade union will also hold ballot amid plan to make up to 65 workers redundant
Virgin Media staff to ballot for strike action over redundancy plans
Unions accuse management of failing to consult over decision to lay off up to 65 staff
Irish five-star hotel market is game for rich people
Cantillon: K Club typifies top-end status hotels subsidised by owners as labours of love
Rooms with a view: Westin goes big on comfort and privacy
Five-star hotel has added new bedrooms and expanded its atrium
Virgin TV chief wants review of RTÉ before grant of extra funding
Pat Kiely wants the Government to review RTÉ’s hybrid model before making any changes to the licence fee or funding
117 windows, 1,000 acres: banker cashing in on palatial Laois home
Estate agents expect a lengthy campaign for this midlands big house
Antigua ‘offers buyout’ of Digicel unit as spectrum row intensifies
Prime minister says he offered Denis O’Brien a state buyout to settle legal row
Digicel wins first round in $25m Caribbean legal row over spectrum
Denis O’Brien secures injunction against government of Antigua and Barbuda
Vodafone changes tack as its once untouchable dividend feels the pain
Market Beat: stock is the most widely held in the State
Adjust your sets: ITV bids to evolve in age of Netflix
Broadcaster’s share price has halved since 2015 – will takeover rumours begin again?
Virgin Media adds 3,400 subscriptions in first quarter
Company says it is on path of ‘solid progress’
Glenlo Abbey’s pre-tax profits more than doubled in 2017
Accounts show Galway hotel’s profit surge comes on the back of 10% rise in sales to €5.36m
Temple Bar Inn hotel expected to sell for €45m
Premises in ideal trading location set to attract domestic and international interest
May offers to walk the plank but Brexit deal still founders
Business Week: Big news for several Irish businessmen; mortgage woes; and housing
Stripe jobs boost for Dublin, €50m hotel sale, home ownership rates and 5G explained
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John Malone consortium buys Powerscourt hotel for about €50m
Property to be added to group that includes the Westin and Intercontinental hotels
Disney entertainment empire joins battle for streamers’ credit cards
Disney Plus is one of several new Netflix rivals coming soon
Liberty Media in talks for stake in Hollywood talent agency
Company controlled by John Malone may invest in CAA
Digicel rival files Caribbean lawsuit in bid to get licence revoked
Company controlled by Liberty Global unhappy at running of 4G licence process
Top house sales of 2018: many top-shelf properties did not sell
This year’s top sale, of €8.1m on Shrewsbury Road, would have lagged in fourth place in 2017
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