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Bobby Healy's drone delivery firm, Manna, raises $50m in Series B with plans for 400 new jobs in Ireland and US. Round includes Cathie Wood's Ark Invest. independent.ie/business/techn…

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Remember this when you hear people complaining about the M50

See the relationship between: - Round size - Valuation - Dilution Does that help?

Every entrepreneur that knows how to use AI is trying to find ways to build AI native companies that completely displace incumbents. For the incumbents, it’s the “Innovator’s AI Dilemma” If those startups get traction, and they can’t buy them, the CEOs will face multiple huge

Ever wonder how traffic lights and pedestrian crossings really work? Most pedestrian crossing buttons are just a placebo, in busy urban areas. The light was going to change anyway, because that type of crossing runs on a timed cycle calibrated to traffic flow. But pressing it

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That empty bottom-right corner of this chart is the most important void in economics. Zero countries. Out of roughly 200 on the planet, not a single one has figured out how to be rich while consuming little electricity. The correlation isn't 0.8 or 0.9. It's a hard boundary. The

The British Empire feared attack from every direction So it built a supreme Fortress - but not in Britain It built it on an Irish Island - here is its story (1)

241 waiting. Only 126 counted in waiting time data. The rest are excluded through categories like suspended & planned Without full time bands across all groups, the reality is being obscured. Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD Simon Harris TD This is not transparency. It’s selective reporting

⛽️ Petrol / Diesel - prices per litre 🇦🇹 AU €1.87 / €2.20 🇧🇪 BL €1.84 / €2.22 🇩🇪 DE €2.13 / €2.28 🇳🇱 NE €2.33 / €2.46 🇫🇷 FR €2.00 / €2.18 🇬🇷 GR €2.04 / €2.11 🇮🇪 IR €1.95 / €2.17 🇪🇸 ES €1.55 / €1.77 🇮🇹 IT €1.73 / €2.03

Vinted has just announced €1.1bn of revenue and €62m of profit in 2025. The company became Lithuania’s first unicorn back in 2019, and is now valued at €8 billion. Today Vinted released their 2025 annual report and the results are amazing: > €1.1bn of revenue > €62m of

His name is Father Brendan McGuire. He runs a small parish in Los Altos, California. Some of Silicon Valley's top AI researchers sit in his pews on Sundays. But before he was a priest, he was one of them. Studied cryptosystems at Trinity College Dublin in the 1980s.

The key is this is whether governments are willing to distinguish between innovation-driven enterprises (IDEs) and the general population of small businesses (SMEs), and build the needed, differentiated infrastructure for each. Most aren’t. It’s politically uncomfortable. Every

May be time to massively increase home solar power subsidies. Currently €1,800 — around 177k homes using solar. But at least 1m capable. No-brainer to double or even triple subsidy? Slash home energy bills and lessens dependence on oil/grid/diesel? independent.ie/business/techn…

Rory McIlroy is an investor in Whoop, wears one of the company's wristbands while playing, and allows the brand to share his data periodically. Here are some of his Masters highlights: • 24,000+ steps on Sunday • 91,000+ steps during the tournament Rory's heart rate spiked

Fab read. As always. No mention of wine or food for those followers.

I think this shift in seed valuations is starting to meaningfully impact portfolio construction and actually creates a new set of opportunities for EMs. For me it feels less like “everything is getting more expensive” and more like the market quietly splitting into two different

I'm not especially wedded to whether Ireland has boomers, or had a baby boom. But what I am very wedded to is having some vaguely data-led procrastination this morning. So here, for amusement, are three graphs: fertility rates in Ireland (1850-2020), vs UK and the US. Mad thing