Ciarán Hancock
Business Editor at Irish Times
Host at Irish Times Inside Business
Business Editor, The Irish Times [email protected]
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Ciarán Hancock
Irish entrepreneur Brian Lee has established a new business, Tryka, offering a hybrid fitness race league that would be run across a number of events over the course of 12 months. The fitness racing brand has been founded with €500,000 in backing from Mr Lee and other investors. It plans to host its inaugural event indoors in the RDS on October 11th and 12th with registration set to open in the coming weeks.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Ciarán Hancock
The Construction Industry Federation (CIF) has chosen Andrew Brownlee as its new director general. He will succeed Hubert Fitzpatrick in the role, and will take up the post later this year. Mr Brownlee is currently the chief executive of Solas, the Further Education and Training (FET) Authority. His selection follows a recruitment process in recent weeks.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Ciarán Hancock
In breaking news this morning, Ryanair has blamed a lower air fares after it saw profits fall 16 per cent last year to €1.6 billion. The airline, which is headed up by chief executive Michael O’Leary, said in its results for the year ended March 31st, 2025, that traffic grew 9 per cent to a record 200 million passengers at 7 per cent lower fares.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Ciarán Hancock
The pharmaceutical industry in Ireland was last night trying to work out the potential impact of US President Donald Trump’s vow to force European countries to pay higher drug prices while squeezing pharmaceutical companies to lower prices for US consumers by as much as 80 per cent. Dominic Coyle has the story. Is it time to increase protection on savings held here?
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Ciarán Hancock
PwC Ireland reported a 2.8 per cent increase in net revenue last year to €469 million, the latest transparency report for the Big Four accounting and consulting firm has revealed. In gross terms, it revenue was €569 million, up 9.6 per cent on 2023. However, its “expenses and disbursements on client engagements” rose by 59 per cent to €100 million. This delivered a net revenue of €469 million.
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