IRISH LUNCH ORDERING startup Bamboo has raised a seed round of investment to bankroll its expansion into Singapore and London. The Dublin-based firm, which was founded by Luke Mackey and Alan Haverty, ...

UP TO 50 staff are to be cut at Irish renewable energy firm OpenHydro as its parent company looks to consolidate. The Dublin-based company produces underwater turbines that harness tidal energy to ...

THE RECENTLY-INTRODUCED vacant site levy doesn’t look like it will be an antidote to Ireland’s housing issues. That’s according to Goodbody stockbrokers, which said that the government “lacks urgency” ...

IRISH SALAD CHAIN Freshly Chopped has signed a multimillion-euro franchise deal with the retail group behind the Spar, Mace and Londis brands in Ireland. The link up will see the BWG Group become ...

IRISH GAS AND electricity supplier Vayu saw sales swell by more than €53 million during 2016, the same year it was taken over by a Spanish utility giant. Vayu, which operates in both Ireland and the ...

THE YEAR IS 1989. The Berlin Wall has fallen, Nasa’s launched its Galileo spacecraft and Nintendo’s Game Boy is hitting shop shelves. In Ireland, Charles Haughey is in his final term as Taoiseach, the ...

BRIAN D’ARCY’S INTEREST had been piqued by transformation in the financial services sector, an area more fondly referred to as fintech. A software engineer by trade, D’Arcy spent 15 years at Hewlett ...

Since the 1940s it has been understood that each generation will have the same, or better, standard of living as their parents. No more. Millennials are the first generation who can’t be sure their ...

MANNA, THE DRONE food delivery startup led by Bobby Healy, plans to launch its hamburger-toting aircraft by the end of the year through a partnership with Flipdish. Healy’s new venture, which he ...

NEXT WEEK, ABOUT 2,000 finance and sustainability experts will descend upon Helsinki to discuss the circular economy at the third annual World Circular Economy Forum. More than an EU buzzword, the ...

BANK OF IRELAND, AIB and Ulster Bank are collaborating with Deloitte and the Institute of Banking on a blockchain-based education platform for the financial services industry. The platform allows for ...

DUBLIN AND BELFAST councils have enlisted a group of companies to provide ‘last-mile delivery’ service in the cities. In a joint tender posted in April last year, the authorities called on businesses ...