Richard Cantillon

Journalist at Irish Times

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Medicine firms try to unscramble Donald Trump’s conflicting populist visions

1 day ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

Pharmaceutical companies are well used to adjusting to account for the occasional political turmoil – one Irish industry source said this week that managing risk was in their DNA – but what they certainly do not like is uncertainty. That is the big challenge for the sector following the latest pronouncements from Donald Trump.
Everybody wants to get on board the State’s aviation policy

3 days ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

Efforts by Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien to recraft our various aviation strategies have taken off of late and it looks like everybody wants a seat on board. O’Brien is due to meet angry north Co Dublin residents on Wednesday – angry because of noise, late-night flights, alleged health consequences and heavy traffic – possibly the last great stakeholder in what has become an increasingly frenetic policy area.
Explorium takes off, having missed out on being part of national children’s science museum

3 days ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

Children’s science and sports museum Explorium is back with what its operators are calling a bang. Just one year after reopening following a long Covid-related hiatus, the interactive centre in Sandyford, south Co Dublin is back inside the city’s top 10 fee-charging visitor attractions, rubbing shoulders with the likes of the Guinness Storehouse and Dublin Zoo.
Video-games industry is not the high-paying sector many think

5 days ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

With about three billion people said to play at least occasionally and estimated industry revenues of more than €200 billion this year, the video-gaming industry now generates a multiple of what the movie business does. In Ireland thousands of jobs have been created in the sector, helped by section 481 film industry-scale tax breaks. Given the amount of money pouring in, then, there should be huge opportunity for skilled workers with an interest in the end product to land the job of their dreams.
More turbulence at Cityjet as interim examiners called in

6 days ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

If companies were like cats then Cityjet might have just barrelled through the third of its nine lives. The High Court has just appointed Kieran Wallace and Andrew O’Leary of Interpath Advisory Ireland as interim examiners to the airline, once Ireland’s third carrier after Aer Lingus and Ryanair.
Glanbia’s top brass feel the ire of shareholders

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

It wasn’t exactly a roasting but Glanbia‘s top brass were left in no doubt about where they stand with shareholders. Somewhere between incompetent and “not worth it”. The latter reflects the fact that not only has the company’s share price halved in the last 10 months (it’s now back at €11 – where it was 12 years ago) but management has continued to award itself generous salaries and bonuses on the back of this dismal performance.
IPL Plastics now a far cry from its One51 days

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

The news that IPL Plastics plans to merge with Dutch firm Schoeller Allibert is one of the more notable deals for an Irish company in 2025, and comes almost a 15 years after one of the biggest Irish corporate spats of the crash when the then chief executive of what was at the time called One51 faced down an attempted rebellion.
Andersen’s return shows the power of a strong brand, for better and worse

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

Fashion has a funny way of working. To the lay person it can seem that styles come into fashion, are all the rage and almost as quickly as they became cool, they become dated and disappear, only to return a few years later, and intermittently in years after that, as retro-chic.
Further ECB rate cut in June all but guaranteed

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

The fear that lingering inflation in the services sector may force the European Central Bank (ECB) to keep interest rates higher for longer has all but been extinguished by Trump’s tariff agenda. “There won’t be extra inflation. That is a strong guarantee – neither this year nor next year,” says ECB governing council member François Villeroy de Galhau.
Apple’s India shift shows folly of tariff logic

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Richard Cantillon

It’s fair to say the trade war sparked by US president Donald Trump has already had huge secondary impacts across the globe, and will continue to do so. But if Trump thought imposing prohibitive tariffs on China would spark a wave of companies shifting their manufacturing operations back to the US, it is already clear that he is mistaken.