Fearghal O'Connor

Irish Independent

United Hardware to double Expert Hardware stores with up to €30m investment

By: Fearghal O Connor

Group eyes billion-euro scale as it looks to expand its footprint in the market

Irish Independent

Blue sky thinking as Fáilte Ireland looks to tempt more wealthy families into the tourism sector

By: Fearghal O Connor

As sweltering summers become the norm across continental Europe, there could be an enormous opportunity for Ireland as a destination and the Fáilte Ireland boss is determined to capitalise

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Donal O’Riain is taking carbon out of cement – and it could put Ecocem on a path to a huge IPO

By: Fearghal O’Connor

‘The only way for us to stop global warming is to let other people have access to our technology’

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Keogh’s Crisps plans 50pc production boost with new state-of-the-art factory in north Co Dublin

By: Fearghal O’Connor

High-flying Keogh’s Crisps is looking to meet growing demand make an even bigger packet overseas with a major expansion of its production facilities at its north Co Dublin farm site.

Irish Independent

‘Don’t be offering us money. We’re not for sale’ – Local communities spurn €12m fund offer from hydrogen storage project promoters

By: Fearghal O'Connor

Carlow community group says storage at the scale proposed by Net Zero Energy (NZE) is completely untested and ‘too dangerous’ to be so close to a village

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‘Writing is on the wall’ for vulnerable airlines as fuel costs soar and leases end with no takers in sight

By: Fearghal O'Connor

With a difficult winter looming for the aviation sector in Ireland and beyond, aircraft coming to the end of their leases are no longer being hungrily snapped up by other airlines, says one expert at the coalface of the business.

Irish Independent

Gas Networks Ireland connects €30m College Group biomethane plant in Meath to national grid

By: Fearghal O'Connor

Nobber facility is the second of its kind linked to the network by GNI in the past month

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Engineers warn Housing Minister they are ‘deeply troubled’ by state agency demands

By: Fearghal O’Connor

Professionals have been forced to engage in ‘legal fictions’, say consultants

Irish Independent

Aer Lingus set to offer cabin crew five weeks’ pay per year of service in redundancy deal

By: Fearghal O'Connor

Aer Lingus and trade union negotiators are circling a deal that would see cabin crew offered a redundancy package as part of the airline’s attempt to cut jobs.

Irish Independent

Investors voice frustration over scant details on state savings scheme

By: Fearghal O'Connor, Sarah Collins

Advisers have expressed concern over Simon Harris’s failure to remove ‘deemed disposal’, a taxation measure that hits investments