RIYADH (Reuters) – A subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has acquired 49% of consulting firm Richard Attias & Associates (RAA), Saudi financial news website Maaal reported on Sunday. The stake acquired by Sanabil Investments, which focuses on making direct equity investments in local companies and projects, has previously been estimated to be worth […]

Damien Tiernan probably didn’t expect to wake up last Monday and find he was on the news. The Waterford Local Radio presenter was just sitting at home last Sunday, watching RTE, as some poor souls without Netflix are allegedly still doing, when Room to Improve came on. The former RTE south-east correspondent immediately took to […]

The Irish economy is still in a sweet spot. It is neither too hot nor too cold. This is about as good as it gets. The economy is still competitive even after seven years of expansion. Despite all the uncertainties and headwinds, growth remains remarkably strong. The bad news is that Brexit could change all […]

Last Saturday week, just before the chimes at midnight, the battered cabal that controls Irish football made a shock announcement. They had settled with former chief executive John Delaney for an unknown sum. The details would not be released. Mystery shrouded the goings-on that led to the inevitable end of a chapter in the FAI’s […]

On Monday, the Supreme Court will begin hearing cases in its first complete term since the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, and the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, gave the court a newly emboldened right-wing majority. The current five-member bloc has already started overturning decades-old precedents and remaking the law in ways that align remarkably […]

If Watergate became, for Richard Nixon, a cancer on his presidency, then Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal is shaping up as something different: It’s an alligator in his White House. The alligator, for readers who missed its recent moment in the news cycle, is the predatory beast that the president reportedly wanted to swim hungrily in […]

It can be easily argued that racism, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The problem when confronting racism in this climate of fear and hysterical over-reaction to anything which goes against the current orthodoxy is that when everything is denounced as racist, the word simply loses its currency. But having said that, […]

Ground rules are being set for years ahead. In blunt diplomatic speak, Ireland wants to be best mates, whenever possible, with its nearest neighbour. But when push comes to shove we will have to be even better mates with our friends in Brussels. We have been reminded yet again the EU is a mighty force […]

It was cold and dark when a coach-load of people with no idea of where they were going landed in the town that was to become their home. Amongst them was a carpenter, a professional cook and a number of web designers. They were frightened and apprehensive, not knowing what to expect – or whether […]

To the Editor: Re “In a Brash Public Move, Trump Asks the Chinese to Examine the Bidens” (front page, Oct. 4): Even if the Trumped-up allegations about the Bidens turned out to be accurate — and there hasn’t been the least bit of evidence to support the claim — the fact remains that, as president, […]