Article Category: Moneybags

UNIPHAR’S GLOBAL MOVES COULD PROVE LUCRATIVE

March 12, 2026

Uniphar was the best-performing Irish stock on the Dublin Market last year, with its shares doubling from €2 on January 2, 2025, to... Read more »

I-RES IN LINE FOR BOOST FROM RENT REGIME CHANGE

March 12, 2026

IT IS often difficult to know what is going on in I-Res, the Irish residential properties Reit, but CEO Eddie Byrne, who has... Read more »

ARKLE RESOURCES SHARE PRICE FAILS TO REFLECT EXCITEMENT

February 26, 2026

WHEN John Teeling stood down from Clontarf Energy three years ago, installing long-term sidekick David Horgan as executive chairman, it looked as if... Read more »

GREENCOAT RENEWABLES’ LOW ENERGY SHARE PRICE

February 26, 2026

THERE IS change coming at the top of Greencoat Renewables as long-time chairman Ronan Murphy steps down. Investors will be hoping there will... Read more »

C&C LOSES ITS FIZZ AGAIN

February 12, 2026

THE HAPLESS C&C shareholders have suffered more than their fair share of upsets and disappointments over recent decades. The latest is a shock... Read more »

GLENVEAGH BUILDING NICELY WITH NUA ATTRACTION

February 12, 2026

IT IS an achievement for a company the size of Glenveagh Properties – boasting sales touching €1bn – to be the first Irish... Read more »

CONROY’S SOARING SHARE PRICE STILL LEAVES GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

January 29, 2026

WHEN THE Turkish giant exploration outfit Demir Exports opted to pull out of its farm-in agreement in June 2024, it certainly looked likely... Read more »

OVOCA BIO’S TALISMAN METALS TRANSFORMATION

January 29, 2026

THE TRANSFORMATION of Ovoca Bio into Talisman Metals was due to be voted through at the EGM this week. It is clear that... Read more »

AILING TULLOW OIL COULD OFFER GAMBLE ON OIL PRICE

January 15, 2026

AFTER THE sudden exit last February of Rahul Dhir as Tullow Oil’s CEO and his interim replacement by CFO Richard Miller, next out... Read more »

IRELAND DELIVERS AT DONEGAL INVESTMENT GROUP

January 15, 2026

HAVING SOLD off five of its business operations, it looked likely that Donegal Investment Group (DIG) was set to concentrate on its remaining... Read more »

SELLING PTSB IS THE WRONG MOVE

December 11, 2025

IT IS difficult to understand why Paschal Donohoe was so keen to back PTSB boss Eamonn Crowley’s “commencement of a formal sales process”... Read more »

GREENCORE WILL SUFFER FROM UK MARKET DEPENDENCE

December 11, 2025

DALTON PHILIPS has now got Greencore’s operating profits back over the level they stood at in pre-pandemic 2019 but he still has some... Read more »

FALCON OIL SHAREHOLDERS TO BENEFIT FROM STAYING IN THE GAME

November 27, 2025

PHILIP O’QUIGLEY has been struggling for the last 13 years, since he was appointed CEO of Falcon Oil & Gas in May 2012,... Read more »

PRIMARK SPIN-OFF PLAN OFFERS INVESTORS AN OPPORTUNITY

November 27, 2025

TODAY THE Primark/Penneys operation dominates its parent company, Associated British Foods (ABF), with sales of £9.5bn and operating profits of £1.1bn in the... Read more »

ORIGIN UP 43% THIS YEAR – WITH MORE TO COME

October 30, 2025

AT THE beginning of the year, Origin Enterprises shares were at a low, which was not too surprising after a period of indifferent... Read more »

GLENVEAGH GAINING MOMENTUM, FOR NOW AT LEAST

October 30, 2025

IT IS not all that rare for an Irish-quoted company to effect a secondary offering of its shares but a unique transaction took... Read more »

HYPED IPO PLAN AT KINGSPAN HELPS TO DISGUISE STAGNATION

October 16, 2025

KINGSPAN CEO Gene Murtagh’s announcement last month that he will target the data-centre boom by floating off 25% of the so-called ADVNSYS business... Read more »

SMURFIT WESTROCK COMBO FAILS TO EXCITE THE YANKS

October 16, 2025

SMURFIT WESTROCK (SWR) CEO Tony Smurfit is not having a smooth journey on the New York Stock Exchange. Rather than taking off as... Read more »

IAG SHARES SET TO SOAR BUT AER LINGUS LAGS

October 2, 2025

IT IS a decade since the giant International Airlines Group (IAG) took over Aer Lingus for €1.4bn. This deal would possibly never have... Read more »

A NEW CHAPTER FOR MINCON

October 2, 2025

A NEW chapter beckons for Irish engineering firm Mincon, which specialises in rock drilling tools. Last May, company founder Paddy Purcell announced his... Read more »

UNIPHAR’S SHARE PRICE BASED ON AN AWFUL LOT OF OPTIMISM

September 18, 2025

UNIPHAR has been generating glowing tributes in the media and the marketplace this year on foot of the impressive performance of its shares... Read more »

QUESTIONS OVER CALIBRE OF DIAGEO’S BOSS-IN-WAITING

September 18, 2025

THE INSTALLING two months ago of Nik (Manik) Jhangiani as the interim CEO at Diageo has attracted plenty of glowing headlines but, while... Read more »

HOSTELWORLD GETS SET FOR PEACE DIVIDEND

September 4, 2025

IN ITS ongoing recovery from the hugely impactful pandemic, Hostelworld Group’s operating profit more than doubled to €11.3m in 2024, so it came... Read more »

TIMING OF DATALEX’S ROUTE CHANGE IS BAFFLING

September 4, 2025

DERMOT DESMOND has had to endure an awful lot of bad press as a result of his long involvement in Datalex and he... Read more »

GOOD RIDDANCE TO RITA-ROSE GAGNÉ

August 21, 2025

IT WAS only 10 weeks ago that Rita-Rose Gagné, CEO of giant retail property play Hammerson (owner of Dundrum Town Centre), announced her... Read more »

PTSB SHARES FLYING DANGEROUSLY HIGH

August 21, 2025

ALTHOUGH FORMER CEO Jeremy Masding spent a decade trying to turn PTSB into a viable bank, it was still in a dreadful state... Read more »

DCC’S SHARE PRICE UNDERVALUES COMPANY

August 7, 2025

IT IS hard to fully grasp CEO Donal Murphy’s conversion last November to stripping DCC down to its energy division by dumping the... Read more »

FD TECHNOLOGIES SALE LOOKS LIKE THE DEAL OF THE DECADE

August 7, 2025

IT LOOKS like the CEO of FD Technologies (FDT – previously First Derivatives), Seamus Keating, pulled a rabbit out of the hat when... Read more »

SOARING AIB SHARES HEADING FOR A €½ BN WAKE-UP CALL

July 24, 2025

THE IRISH banking duopoly is back in business, returning combined pre-tax profits of €4.6bn as the competition has cleared off, principally KBC, Ulster... Read more »

DATALEX SHAREHOLDERS CONTINUE TO LOSE ALTITUDE

July 24, 2025

THIS YEAR Datalex is 40 years old and still losing money, airborne only thanks to Dermot Desmond’s decision to back the venture all... Read more »

FLUTTER’S BETS OUTSIDE AMERICA LOOK LIKE LONG-SHOTS

July 10, 2025

FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT boss Peter Jackson continues to splash out around the globe rather than focus on the rapidly evolving US market, a strategy... Read more »

C&C MOVING FROM FLAT TO FIZZY

July 10, 2025

IN THE last five years the erratic C&C drinks business has boasted more CEOs than most companies experience in decades. The man in... Read more »

RYANAIR PROFITS SET TO SOAR DESPITE O’LEARY

June 26, 2025

FOR THE financial year ending March 31, 2025, Ryanair recorded net profits down 16% to €1.61bn, with CEO Mick O’Leary up to his... Read more »