Alice Chambers

2 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers

This Thursday, Keith O’Brien came to the High Court with his wife to learn his fate. He was hoping to avoid prison. He had admitted to violating a High Court order to preserve information by destroying his phone with an axe and dumping the pieces in a drain. O’Brien is the Dublin man at the heart of a corporate espionage case involving two multi-billion-dollar US HR multinationals. He was employed by one of them, Rippling, and accused of being a mole in the company on behalf of the other, Deel.

2 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers

The High Court was set to hear the last of the four judicial reviews involving Codling Wind Park’s foreshore licences on Tuesday, April 8. Then on Monday, the court was told that the case had been settled. It marks a milestone for Codling’s project, due to be the largest wind farm in the history of the State, and confirms a tentative hope among wind farm developers that legal momentum may be shifting in their favour.

3 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers

In the warm and unexpected Dublin sun, South William Street was thronged with tourists and workers taking advantage of the good weather to eat lunch outside this Thursday. The cafés in the Powerscourt Town House were full and people sat on the wide granite steps to drink their coffee and pass the lunch hour in the fresh air. Farrier and Draper, located in one of the wings of the shopping centre, however, benefited from none of the lunchtime rush. Its gates were padlocked shut.

3 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers

Good things come to those who wait, they say, and a company which lost out on a €30 million contract nine years ago has been rewarded with a €120 million contract starting today, April 1. Clear Channel Ireland bid on the very first contract that the National Transport Authority (NTA) awarded in 2016 for bus shelter advertising nationally. But it lost out to JCDecaux. As the contract expired and the NTA was obliged to go back to the market, Clear Channel can now celebrate a victory over its rival.

3 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Alice Chambers

Last week marked Sven Utermöhlen’s first trip to Ireland. But unlike most visitors to the country, he enjoyed blazing sun and balmy temperatures for the duration of the days-long stay. And the visit was bookended with trips to Leinster House to meet first the Taoiseach and then the minister for the environment. Utermöhlen has led RWE’s offshore wind division since 2019, when he joined RWE as part of its acquisition of E.On’s renewable energy business.