To really understand Appleby Jewellers, there are two places you need to visit. One is the shop itself, an immaculately laid-out premises on Johnson's Court, just off Grafton Street in the heart of Dublin. There are rows of counters displaying rings and j... See more
In 2015, I sat down with Chris Martin, a cricket-loving Englishman who had been appointed chief executive of the Musgrave Group a decade earlier. The Cork retail giant had just released its results for the previous financial year, and Martin, a former chi... See more
Ronan O'Gara has spent most of his adult life in high-performance environments. There were the Munster and Ireland dressing rooms, the British & Irish Lions, the move into coaching, first in France, then New Zealand, France and now at La Rochelle, whe... See more
When Sinéad Mahon looks back on her career in financial services, she is careful about one thing. She did not have a banking career, she says. She had a career in banks. It took her from PwC into KBC, Ulster Bank, and Danske Bank, where she became CFO, an... See more
Stories Every economic cycle eventually acquires its defining word. During the Celtic Tiger years, it was growth. After the financial crash, it became austerity. More recently, economists have talked incessantly about inflation, supply chains and interest... See more