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Ian Guider: Is a paywall inevitable for the Six Nations?

The investors who have bought into rugby want to make money, and that may well mean the end of free-to-air matches between nations

01.02.2025 10

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Analysis: Guinness is Ireland’s Big Ben and Eiffel Tower, Diageo’s plan to sell is monumental

The famous Irish stout has rarely been as popular or fashionable so it might be time for the ailing parent to capitalise on it

26.01.2025 10

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Ian Guider: New government should call on O’Leary, Boucher et al for real-world advice

Establishing a council of grandees with business expertise and experience would inject much needed energy into a moribund system

26.01.2025 10

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Ian Guider: DCC shareholders in line for bonanza dividends

Its radical shift should please investors, with Goodbody Stockbrokers this week naming the company as its top stock pick this year

24.01.2025 6

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Ian Guider: Junk bonds helped to build Ardagh, but now they threaten to dismantle it

Paul Coulson will need every one of his dealmaking abilities to steer the company he built through the choppy waters ahead

19.01.2025 7

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Ian Guider: Enterprise Ireland and the IDA have been very successful, but remaining static is not an option

With so much geo-political uncertainty and war in Europe continuing, Ireland’s ability to create jobs is facing unprecedented challenges

10.01.2025 10

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Ian Guider: Five Irish firms that could change hands in 2025

06.01.2025 7

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Ian Guider: 2025 will be a year of profound change both at home and abroad

From Washington to Berlin, Trump 2.0, tariffs, greater banking competition, battle over TikTok all lie ahead

26.12.2024 3

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Ian Guider’s year in review: Mega mergers, struggling firms, Tony O’Reilly’s death, FDI threats

Business Post columnist Ian Guider takes a look at the successes, scandals, threats and controversies that dominated that dominated the business...

22.12.2024 7

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Ian Guider: Rubbish is a big money spinner and the state should be a player

Privatising bin collection has not worked for customers, instead we need to bring waste management back into public control

06.12.2024 3

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Ian Guider: Rubbish is a big money spinner and the state should be a player

Privatising bin collection has not worked for customers, instead we need to bring waste management back into public control

06.12.2024 3

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Ian Guider: Why shutting down NDRC could jeopardise Ireland's much-needed start-up future

We need a full explanation for shuttering the NDRC, and a plan to back Irish companies and entrepreneurs

01.12.2024 4

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Ian Guider: Clear and present danger as Trump has Ireland’s corporate profits in his crosshairs

Quiet diplomacy won’t work in Maga-land and so we need someone who can do business there on our behalf without having to hold their nose

24.11.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Kerry Group sale of dairy division a victory for all parties

€500 million sale to the Kerry co-op frees the publicly-listed giant from its past, allowing it to focus on its hugely profitable taste and...

17.11.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Virgin Media's Tonight Show cuts highlight government’s failures in media funding

RTÉ swallows up huge chunks of media advertising while also enjoying huge support from the taxpayer that commercial operators can only dream of

10.11.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Ireland rode its luck with Trump first time on tax... we won’t be that lucky again

Chinese firm Wuxi’s Dundalk plant is the kind of operation new administration will be targeting from January

06.11.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Ireland rode its luck with Trump first time on tax... we wont be that lucky again

Chinese firm Wuxi’s Dundalk plant is the kind of operation new administration will be targeting from January

06.11.2024 3

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Ian Guider: Why I was wrong about Bankinter’s ability to disrupt AIB and Bank of Ireland

04.11.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Why I was wrong about Bankinter’s ability to disrupt AIB and Bank of Ireland

03.11.2024 3

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Ian Guider: Goodman and Infravia among those set to cash in on private hospital bet

Hospital owners looking to exploit dysfunction in Ireland’s overly stretched public health system as insurance premiums set to soar

27.10.2024 20

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Ian Guider: Can Stripe join the €1 trillion club as Europe lags behind America?

Sad truth is that the US has stolen a march with a handful of $1 trillion companies, leaving EU inc in its wake

20.10.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Our smug contentment is costing us jobs and investment as Britain eats our lunch

The British Labour government are busy winning investment while Irish policymakers drag their feet in addressing our chronic infrastructure and...

13.10.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Budget 2025 is a dangerous return to the incontinent spending of the Celtic Tiger

Paschal Donohoe and Jack Chambers made some good moves around addressing infrastructure and helping entrepreneurs but this is a risky budget we...

01.10.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Mind-boggling National Children’s Hospital saga a test case of how not to do things

What this wretched story also demonstrates is the need for a minister for infrastructure, which some in the political establishment seem to believe...

29.09.2024 10

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Ian Guider: Seven measures Donohoe and Chambers should use Budget to help businesses

From reducing VAT to helping unicorns and entrepreneurs, clear options exist for the money ministers to back companies

29.09.2024 3

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Ian Guider: Now is no time to party like it is 2006 . . . surely we have learned our lessons

Government no doubt will bristle with any association with those hedonistic days, but it’s hard not to think that given the frenzied spending plans

22.09.2024 3

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Ian Guider: Ireland should plough €13 billion Apple tax into seeding innovation of our own

For too long Ireland has put protecting FDI over serving domestic enterprises. Today’s ruling must be a wake up call, writes Ian Guider

10.09.2024 3

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Ian Guider: At very least, we must return a sense of order, pride and fun to Dublin city

Failure to address problem before now has had a catastrophic impact on businesses and city life, and David McRedmond’s report won’t change that

08.09.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Kingspan in the crosshairs as Grenfell report could ignite new reputational crisis

The horrific 2017 tragedy remains a wound for the Cavan company that continues to linger, despite its material being a very small factor in tower...

01.09.2024 10

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Ian Guider: Why we Irish are so reluctant to invest, even when it is easy money

Hundreds of thousands of bank customers are sitting on almost €140 billion of cash. This has been a missed opportunity to generate a return

24.08.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Ireland’s economy has rarely been so exposed... or so strong

From stock market sell offs to geo-political turmoil, the headwinds are growing strong - here’s why Ireland needs to take some hard decisions

18.08.2024 1

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Ian Guider: Dubliners deserve coherent plan to future proof city centre

Shoppers, commuters and dwellers are continuing being failed by those charged with designing how the capital operates

11.08.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Vindication – but INM report paints far from flattering picture of saga

The internecine war between Denis O’Brien and the O’Reilly family was a recipe for catastrophe which could have been stopped in its tracks by...

04.08.2024 3

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Ian Guider: Criminal barristers are underpaid but outdated profession doesn’t help itself

The legal sector still operates like it is 1824, not 2024, and every time any proposals for change or reform are made, they are resisted by the Bar...

28.07.2024 1

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Ian Guider: The government’s RTÉ funding plan is both a damaging missed opportunity and a cop-out

Politicians will be happy to have the issue off their desk for now but it won’t be long before it comes back to haunt the political system and...

24.07.2024 1

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