The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) has called for “long-term planning” in Government budgets to drive down the cost of new housing, warning that increased construction costs are leading to many projects being paused or cancelled as they are “no longer financially viable”. Ellen O’Regan has the details.
In Any Other Business, John Burns says it is hard to foresee Seán Quinn ‘fading into the shadows’ after the release of his book; finds that the Collison brothers have been confirmed as backers for a new city in California and tells us that Lucy Gaffney is to campaign for slavery reparations for Caribbean countries.
Davy chief economist Conall Mac Coille has been appointed as group chief economist at Bank of Ireland, the stockbroker’s parent company, writes Ciarán Hancock. He will take up the role in October and fills a position that has been vacant since last year when Loretta O’Sullivan left the bank to take a role as chief economist and a partner with professional services firm EY.
Students returning to college for the new term are being warned of the risks of being recruited as a money mule, as the amount of money transferred through mule accounts in the first half of the year was up almost 50 per cent. Ellen O’Regan reports.
Excess deaths in young male early school leavers were mainly due to risky behaviour and suicide, rather than to illness. Mental health problems undoubtedly played a role in suicide rates. But there is also evidence of a much higher propensity for risk-taking among these young men, reflected in a high number of deaths from such behaviour, including traffic fatalities, notes John FitzGerald in his weekly column.
News that Smurfit Kappa is plotting to depart the Irish stock market for the buzz of Wall Street – as part of a plan unveiled on Thursday by the cardboard box-making giant to merge with US peer WestRock – could not come at a worse time for Euronext Dublin, the exchange operator, writes Joe Brennan.
Nobody likes to be told they’re out of touch but it’s a charge being levelled at managers who have taken what’s been described as a “Tyrannosaurus rex” attitude to hybrid and remote working. Generalisations are always risky, but it appears that age may be a contributory factor here, with older managers finding the adjustment more difficult because the principles and practices they grew up with no longer apply, writes Olive Keogh.
Ryan Tubridy may have recapped his CV and purred to Chris Evans about the red electric Vespa gifted to him by U2, but his Instagrammed midweek cameo on Virgin Radio UK was also a reminder of something less smooth. Not everyone gets to leave the Irish airwaves, as Today FM’s Dermot Whelan did, amid studio cheers and blasts of Beautiful Day, writes Laura Slattery in this weeks Agenda.
We profile the remaining four finalists chosen in the international category for this year’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards, they are: Brian Fahey of MyComplianceOffice; Neil Skeffington of Novelplast Teoranta; Ted Wright of Writech Industrial Services and Tom Walsh of Staycity.
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