Shares in the country’s biggest landlord, Ires Reit, have fallen to an all-time low despite record high rents and demand for housing.
Journalists, universities and interest groups – but not the general public – should be able to search a State database on company ownership, Fine Gael MEP Frances Fitzgerald has said.
On a sunny Thursday in spring I meet Brown Thomas managing director Donald McDonald inspecting a small purple handbag on display in the centre of Brown Thomas’ flagship department store on Grafton Street in Dublin.