Ciarán Hancock

Ciarán Hancock

Business Editor

Ciarán Hancock is Business Editor of The Irish Times.

Accenture’s Irish profits and BNY buys its Dublin HQ

Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Ballyfin hotel returns to profit, helped by securing Michelin star

Revenues at five-star Co Laois country house rise by 24% with the property recording a ‘modest’ profit

Ireland’s top 10 companies: Which firms are generating the most revenue?

Pharma company Eli Lilly makes the top 10 for the first time, while CRH ranks as the largest indigenous company

No inflation hit from minimum wage rises, and a look at property prices

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Pre-budget boost from soaring corporation tax receipts

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Guinane wins on Central Bank fine and why women struggle to get on the ‘boss-man’s ladder’

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Buswells losses and what we can expect from the budget

Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Westport Estate’s CEO on its two-year closure: ‘There’s a lot of money being spent here’

Barry O’Connor is leading a €65m project to redevelop Westport Estate in Co Mayo to attract tourists north of Galway

ECB rate hike will bring bad news for Irish mortgage holders

Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Bord Bia’s spending rules breach and why the Irish are such good savers

Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Investors increase ICG holdings amid frenzied trading as bid deadline looms

Nick Furlong’s Pageant Investments, Eamon Waters’ Sretaw and London-based Sand Grove increase their stakes

Rothwell’s offer for ICG poised to sink, and data behind youth unemployment

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

What next for ICG and Eamonn Rothwell if investors reject takeover bid?

Based on early proxy votes cast, the €1.2 billion offer by Rothwell and other managers looks set to be rejected

ICG buyout offer of €1.2bn set to be rejected, board warns investors

Early proxy votes indicate management-led offer for ferry operator could be turned down

Revenues up but profits down for ferry operator ICG in first half of year

Results come against backdrop of €1.2bn MBO led by chief executive Eamonn Rothwell that would see shareholders paid €8 per share

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