Germany's unfamiliar role heartens someIt is somewhat comforting to see Germany, so often quoted as the economic powerhouse of Europe, coming to the European Commission…Sat Nov 27 1999 - 00:00
Saga of offshore secrets unfoldsPicture this. Your firm investigates a somewhat secretive offshore investment option but decides not to proceedSat Nov 27 1999 - 00:00
Time to play tough with the public sector?First it was the blue flu, then the angels on the picket line during the first national nurses' strikeSat Nov 27 1999 - 00:00
SFA brings the begging bowl out over Y2KIt breaks your heart really to see the hard put-upon small business sector struggling to meet the demands of Y2K.Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Solution to a perennial sticky problemAt last, someone appears to have found a cure for one of the scourges of modern urban life - chewing gum.Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Banks face new front in attack on profitsEveryone wants to get a slice of the heretofore highly profitable banking business.Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Putting stockpicking on the school curriculumSome things are utterly depressingSat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Eircom price beats big hushWithin 24 hours of Eircom unveiling its maiden interim figures to fanfare in Dublin, a deathly hush fell over large parts of …Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Microsoft has wings clippedJust when it thought it was, effectively, the power of the computer era, Microsoft has had the wind well and truly taken out …Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
Bank of Scotland stands up to challengeThe market didn't have to wait long to see the arriviste's response to efforts to frighten it out of the domestic mortgage market…Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Ensuring the brokers all play by the rulesIt was to be expected that the removal of rules setting limits on commissions charged by insurance brokers would draw fire from…Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Ulster gem in NatWest sell-offNATWEST is pulling out all the stops in its attempt to ward off the attentions of Bank of ScotlandSat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Dow catches up with the high-tech revolutionJust when you think the fluctuations on the venerable Dow Jones index can get no worse, technology giants Intel and Microsoft…Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Elan pays the price for disappointing investorsHow fickle the favours of investors? In the case of those in the US, the answer is very, as Athlone-based Elan pharmaceuticals…Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
JCB takes its worksite style to the catwalkIt may be early but critical decisions on Christmas stock have already been made by retailers and suppliers.Sat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
Partnership in fight for a futureSo the economists are divided on the merits of any successor to Partnership 2000Sat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
Monsanto gloom as GM labelling approvedIt's not been the best of weeks for Monsanto, the group indelibly linked with genetically modified organisms.Sat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
Keeping the consumer in mind on regulationThere has been a lot of talk, including here, about who should control the new single financial regulatory authoritySat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
Clean sweep in DIRT inquiryWhen it was set up, Jim Mitchell expressed the hope that the inquiry by the Dail's Committee of Public Accounts into DIRT evasion…Sat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Justice calls on the regulatorWho'd be a telecoms regulator? The week has been one long nightmare for the forthright director of the Office of the Director…Sat Oct 09 1999 - 01:00
Defending all but the investorCaveat emptor took on a whole new meaning this week with the revelation from Irish Stock Exchange chief executive Tom Healy that…Sat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Tax amnesty returns to haunt politiciansAs Jim Culliton became the first casualty of the fallout from the authorised officer's report into Ansbacher (Cayman) Ltd, it…Sat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Chattering classes flock to the InternetHardly a day passes without some report about the myriad uses for the InternetSat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Paying the price of new technology's foiblesTechnology is not the universal panacea after all, it appearsSat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Dana throws up gap in pension fund protectionIt's not just AIB that comes out of the Dana affair looking the worse for wear; the Pensions Board also seems to have engaged…Sat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
AIB in search of lost lustreThe only certain outcome of the inquiry into DIRT evasion by the Dail Committee of Public Accounts is that AIB Bank's public …Sat Sept 11 1999 - 01:00
Directors show way on inflation-busting payAs we sit here, basking in the warm glow of social partnership and low single-digit pay rises, it rankles just a little to read…Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
Glanbia loses its lustre amid grim resultsAnother reputation tarnished this week was that of Glanbia, the entity to emerge from the merger of Avonmore and Waterford Foods…Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
Central Bank keeps running in blinkersSticking with the goings-on in the Committee of Public Accounts, it is hard to see who benefits from the public washing of some…Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
Passing the buck on DIRTKeeping your bearings when following the Dail Committee of Public Accounts inquiry into DIRT is tricky.Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
Working to tame the cowboy buildersWinner of the most intriguing government-ponsored body award must go to the intriguingly named Department of the Environment'…Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
The Internet bites back at unwary customersIt wasn't a great week for the prophets of the Internet..Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
Consolidation the new watchword for banksJust before Bank of Scotland set the cat among the Republic's financial pigeons, news from elsewhere showed another face of the…Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Companies gamble with investors' assetsAs a shareholder, just how confident can you be that the executives of the company in which you have placed your money will work…Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Bank of Scotland moves on mortgage millionsIt had to happen... and from Monday it willSat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Everyone has a say on the dirt in DIRTThe great and the good will appear before the Dail Select Committee of Public Accounts as it strives to get to the bottom of …Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Say it softly - banks raise ratesIt's just so warming to see how the financial institutions, constantly under fire for secrecy and shady dealings, have embraced…Sat Aug 21 1999 - 01:00
Taylor's legal input returns to haunt himThe arrest of Tony Taylor in southern England raised several interesting points, apart altogether from when he will be successfully…Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
Almost everyone happy at EnterpriseThere was hardly a dry eye in the house on Thursday when Enterprise Oil announced success in its second test drilling in the …Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
Telecom investors learn to live with lowsNow we will see the true mettle of the Republic's new band of investorsSat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
Court showdown in Nationwide spatNot a good week for the doctors of spin at Irish NationwideSat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
AIB battered on euro index fearAIB's shares have taken a bit of a battering despite the reasonably strong interim figures posted by the group this week.Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
Consolation for Fruit of the Loom workersFruit of the Loom workers in Donegal may be fretting in the current climate where they have no idea if and when their jobs will…Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
Ulster remains coy on its feelings for ICCLike its larger rival, Ulster Bank saw profits rise healthily in the first half of the year - up 7.6 per cent to £81Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
Telecom investors' mettle put to testWouldn't you know it. Just when the world and its mother has succumbed to the allure of Telecom Eireann shares, the telecoms …Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
TnaG dishes out DIRT to viewersYou've got to hand it to those in charge at TnaGSat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Customers and shareholdersSpeaking of Telecom Eireann, it is not only rival telecoms groups which have reason to be irate at the group's latest marketing…Sat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Aer Lingus put on flight pathJust a week after Aer Lingus was whetting its appetite at the prospect of being a player in the largest global airline alliance…Sat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
