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The cement billionaires
Despite being a relatively mundane product, cement has created some of the richest corporations in the world, not least Ireland’s CRH plc – Séamus Maye
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CRH: A history of scandal.
Michael Smith.
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Hogan’s magic touch So water charges will not become fully operational until 2016, at the earliest. Coincidentally, a general election will be held before that date. Big Phil Hogan who has gone politically AWOL after presiding over the household charge and septic-tank fiascos, is now applying his monkey-repairing-a-television-set nous to domestic water metering. Bord Gáis […]
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The anachronistic 1937 perspective needs sensible, unradical change Article by Tanya Ward: My childhood in Cabra, Dublin, was a happy one. Money was probably a bit tight but I had absolute certainty that my parents and family were there for me. I didn’t end up in Cabra by accident. My Grandad was deaf and […]
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Cover-up Jonathan Sugarman, a former Risk Manager, blew the whistle on his then employer Unicredit Bank, Italy’s biggest, which in 2007 failed dramatically to maintain proper liquidity ratios – which keep banks from customer runs on their funds. Village was the first to name Unicredit, despite threats from McCann FitzGerald solicitors that Unicredit would sue […]
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Extend the term, dudes
Longer mortgages can save the economy – John Clark
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Anton McCabe