NovaUCD, the hub for new ventures and entrepreneurs at UCD, has welcomed three new startups. The three companies – EPIC Conjoint, This is Seaweed and Travacoin – have moved to the hub in order to collaborate and benefit from increased engagement with the university. All three companies are very different in terms of what they […]

Dublin-based UDG has $500m (€424m) available for acquisitions, and said US tax changes mean it is now more likely to buy assets there. US President Donald Trump’s tax package this year will boost UDG profits both this year and into the future, said UDG chief finance officer Alan Ralph. “It does make the US more […]

When Ballymore chief Sean Mulryan and his partners at Singapore-headquartered developers Oxley unveiled plans in October 2016 for over a million square feet of offices and apartments in the Dublin Docklands, there were some who may have baulked at the scale of their ambition. Fast forward to today however, and it would appear that Mr […]

Fianna Fáil is pushing the Government to get the interest rate on money under the Brexit loan guarantee scheme for small and medium-sized businesses lowered, claiming it is still higher than in other European countries.   The Government officially launched its €300m loan scheme on Wednesday. The aim of the scheme is to provide working […]

British chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to start taxing clothes made from polyester and nylon as he seeks to stop harmful plastics filling the world’s oceans. The UK treasury is aiming to announce a package of new taxes to deal with plastic waste in its budget statement in November, following a consultation that attracted […]