Small Business

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  ‘Markets put me on the map’: How stalls across Ireland are sustaining small craft businesses

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  Waterland-backed Net Zero adds two more green construction services firms in push for scale

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  Sean Pollock

  Demand for Irish bomb disposal robot soars since Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Caroline O'Doherty

  New payments scheme will allow farms, firms and community groups become small-scale electricity producers

  

• Latest News Ticker

  Taoiseach Simon Harris promises to prioritise small businesses before likely March 2025 general election

  

• Enterprise Ireland (Column only)

  Have a bright idea and buckets of ambition? EI’s New Frontiers early-stage founders programme is the smart place to start

  

• Sean Pollock

  Killarney Brewery and Distillery Co hopes US investor roadshow will help it complete €7m fundraiser target

  

• Sean Pollock

  Eight Degrees brewed €2.8m debt to Jameson producer ahead of sale to founders

  

• Sean Pollock

  Irish start-up ResHub bought by UK social care tech group PCS

  

• Sean Pollock

  Nephin Whiskey appoints two new Ukrainian directors in boardroom shake-up after husband and wife co-founders quit roles

  

• Sean Pollock

  ‘My only interest is taking market share from the pillar banks’ – Capitalflow CEO Ronan Horgan on his plans to transform the SME lending landscape

  

• Latest News Ticker

  ‘This is like Armageddon for businesses’ – Merchants of Ennis under siege from streets revamp

  

• Donal O'Donovan

  Cork grinds school Bruce College sold in second deal for UK’s Duke Education

• Donal O'Donovan

  Companies Registration Office has 32,000 firms in sight as enforcement ramps up

• Aviva

  Brian O’Connor: Months ahead will tell whether reform of personal injury awards actually works to cut insurance claims

• Dublin Property

  Provisional liquidators appointed to building firm working at Dublin Airport, Mountjoy Prison and Dundrum apartment scheme

• Enterprise Ireland (Column only)

  Start your energy-efficient engines: Europe’s flagship mobility event brings the roadshow to Dublin

• Latest News Ticker

  Delivery firm DPD sees profits drop as Covid effects fade

• Donal O'Donovan

  Finance house Elkstone says Irish business savers can get 4pc on deposit in challenge to banks

• Revenue Commissioners

  Scrumdiddly’s ice-cream chain needs Scarp rescue

• Paul O’Donoghue

  ‘There are sleepless nights worrying about how we’ll pay these increases’ – Joy meets despair amid upcoming minimum wage hikes

• Revenue Commissioners

  Scarp has saved hundreds of jobs – so why don’t more companies use it?

• Gina London

  Gina London: Discipline – not motivation – is what pushes you forward in a storm

• Enterprise Ireland (Column only)

  Public sector tenders in Ireland and the EU can prove lucrative for SMEs

• Gina London: Managers need to move beyond the ‘tell and sell’ approach with staff

• Sarah Collins

  Traditional sectors say Budget 2024 has left them behind

• High Court orders winding up troubled fit-out firm Mac Interiors after failed examinership scheme

• Sarah Collins

  Call for ‘robust’ business supports in Budget 2024 as insolvencies on the rise

• Bank of Ireland

  Turning our cities into vibrant hubs for the future means stakeholders must work together now

• Paul O’Donoghue

  HealthBeacon puts an €11m question to its brave investors

• Enterprise Ireland (Column only)

  Enterprise Ireland: Irish cybersecurity are firms making a big global impression

• Robert Troy: Minister Michael McGrath must focus his Budget on helping small firms export