Alice Chambers
Business Correspondent at The Currency
Award-winning journalist, business correspondent @thecurrency ([email protected]). Formerly @noteworthy_ie, @ABC News, @columbiajourn, @anticorruption.
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4 weeks ago |
thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers
The much-reported, long-anticipated sale of Energia has seen a lot of false dawns but the Irish gas and electricity utility is a step closer with an initial round of indicative, non-binding bidding starting on a deal that could be worth between €2.5 billion to €3 billion. The Currency understands that its owner, US-based asset manager I Squared Capital, is hoping to move along quickly, with phase-two bidding from serious parties taking place in July.
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1 month ago |
thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers
Darren Smith was walking out of the Merrion shopping centre in Dublin when he got a call from RTÉ. No, the broadcaster told him; The Traitors isn’t going to work, “it’s not for us”. Smith, the founder and managing director of Kite Entertainment, called Mairéad Whelan, Kite’s director of content, to break the news. “Well, they’re wrong,” she told him. And so it proved to be. The production company that Smith set up in 2004 is behind one of the most anticipated television shows this year.
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1 month ago |
thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers
In March, An Bord Pleanála granted Aughinish Alumina Limited permission to expand. The Russian-owned company operates an alumina refinery on the Shannon Estuary, near Foynes in Limerick. It refines around 1.9 million tonnes of alumina per year, according to its website. Alumina is a critical component of aluminium.
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1 month ago |
thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers
On April 11, The Currency broke the news that wind farm developer Corio was pulling out of its Sceirde Rocks offshore wind site in the west of Ireland, making it almost impossible for Ireland to meet its 2030 renewable energy targets. The Macquarie-owned developer said it was abandoning the project shortly after the company announced a global restructuring.
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1 month ago |
thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers
An Bord Pleanála has rejected a midlands data centre’s application to be considered a strategic infrastructure development (SID) and has advised that the planning application should be made to Westmeath County Council in the first instance instead. The application was made by Red Admiral DC, which is owned by Offaly businessman Nigel Reams and forms part of his Lumcloon Energy Group, according to the planning file.
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