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Startups & Founders

Teen Founders Are Skipping College.And Investors Are Listening

A generation of Irish teenagers is building companies before they sit their Leaving Cert, and serious investors are starting to pay attention. The university pathway isn't disappearing, but for a certain kind of founder, it's becoming a detour they can't afford.

7 Sep 2026 7 min read

The Knowledge Drain: Why Irish Tech Companies Can't Afford to Skip Junior Developer Training

From Data Centers to R&D Labs: Why Ireland's AI Future Depends on Innovation, Not Infrastructure

2 Sep 2026 6 min read

Building Security Into Your Product From Day One: Why Irish Founders Are Getting It Wrong

1 Sep 2026 5 min read

Growth & Marketing

The Private AI Bet: Why UGREEN and Others Are Banking on Privacy-First Smart Homes Over Cloud Giants

The cloud giants have turned your home data into infrastructure. A new generation of local-processing devices is betting that enough consumers will eventually notice and pay to stop it.

The Real Cost of Ireland's Remote-Hiring Revolution: What Employers Won't Say

3 Sep 2026 7 min read

The Phone Call Isn't Dead: Why Irish Businesses Ignoring Customer Service Voice Channels Are Losing Money

24 Aug 2026 5 min read

Irish AI infrastructure boom: Why data centres are betting billions on liquid cooling

22 Aug 2026 6 min read

Funding & Finance

Why Irish VCs Should Be Betting on the Maker Economy (Not Just AI)

While Irish VCs chase AI term sheets, a quiet revolution in craft, repair, and physical manufacturing is bootstrapping itself into existence. Dublin Maker 2026 just made the funding gap impossible to ignore.

Why Irish Medtech Is Suddenly Attractive to European VCs (And What It Means for Founders)

1 Sep 2026 6 min read

Why Irish MedTech is Winning: Inside the €5M Series A Strategy That's Beating US Competition

29 Aug 2026 6 min read

The Irish Cybersecurity Talent Shortage: Can Integrity360's CyberIAM Acquisition Fill the Gap?

28 Aug 2026 6 min read

Economy & Policy

The Energy Ceiling: How Irish Businesses Are Planning Around Budget 2027's Make-or-Break Moment

Three in four Irish business leaders say they can't absorb another energy cost increase. The smart ones aren't waiting for Budget 2027 to find out if they're right.

7 Sep 2026 6 min read

Grafton's €1.5bn Half-Year Win Reveals Who's Really Benefiting From Ireland's Building Boom

3 Sep 2026 5 min read

The GenAI Compliance Gap: Why 88% of Irish Firms Are Flying Blind on AI Policy

2 Sep 2026 5 min read

The €3bn Solar Boom Is Hiding Ireland's Real Energy Problem

31 Aug 2026 6 min read

Leadership & People

The Knowledge Gap Killing Irish Tech: Why Senior Engineers Are Refusing to Mentor Juniors

Senior engineers in Irish tech are quietly withdrawing from mentorship, and salary compression is the reason nobody wants to say out loud. When the gap between a mid-level and senior salary shrinks to €8,000, knowledge transfer dies with it.

The Training Tax: Why Irish Tech Companies Are Losing Institutional Knowledge

Why Irish Companies Are Losing the AI Talent War to Ageism (In Reverse)

31 Aug 2026 6 min read

Leading Through Uncertainty: How Irish Business Leaders Can Navigate AI's $18bn Meta-Style Reckoning

29 Aug 2026 6 min read

Case Studies

Property Overvaluation and Rising Energy Costs: The Perfect Storm Brewing for Irish Real Estate Investors

The ESRI says Irish property is 17% overvalued and energy bills are climbing faster than rents. Investors who don't reposition now will learn the hard way what a correction actually feels like.

How Dublin Airport's Blocked Cargo Hub Reveals a Bigger Problem for Irish Business Infrastructure

30 Aug 2026 6 min read

How Eir Cracked 6% Revenue Growth While the Telecom Industry Stalled: The Inside Story

26 Aug 2026 5 min read

From Lab to Scale: How Irish Research Spin-Outs Are Creating 2,500+ Jobs While the Rest of Europe Talks About It

23 Aug 2026 6 min read

Latest

The Energy Ceiling: How Irish Businesses Are Planning Around Budget 2027's Make-or-Break Moment

7 Sep 2026 6 min read

Teen Founders Are Skipping College.And Investors Are Listening

7 Sep 2026 7 min read

The Private AI Bet: Why UGREEN and Others Are Banking on Privacy-First Smart Homes Over Cloud Giants

The Knowledge Drain: Why Irish Tech Companies Can't Afford to Skip Junior Developer Training

Property Overvaluation and Rising Energy Costs: The Perfect Storm Brewing for Irish Real Estate Investors

The Knowledge Gap Killing Irish Tech: Why Senior Engineers Are Refusing to Mentor Juniors

Why Irish VCs Should Be Betting on the Maker Economy (Not Just AI)

The Training Tax: Why Irish Tech Companies Are Losing Institutional Knowledge