@ipkehoe

Co-founder of The Currency. Former deputy chair at RTE and previously editor of The Sunday Business Post. @thecurrency

 Dublin, Ireland
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If you are looking for a Sunday morning read. This is a story with many layers, on @thecurrency now.
Paul McArdle@PaulatThePanelOct 17
50 years ago my cousin, Garda Michael Clerkin, was assisinated by an IRA booby trap bomb. His other cousin, Jamie Mac Giolla Bhain, has written Thundering Disgrace, about Michael‘s death and how it unwittingly led to the resignation of the President. thecurrency.news/articles/24…

More than one “thundering disgrace”: The shockwaves from a 50-year-old murder

Early one Saturday morning, October 16, 1976, the phone rang in my house. I ran down to answer it. When I picked up the phone, all I could hear was somebody sobbing so loudly that I did not know who...

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NEW: The HSE has rejected a request from National Screening Service for funds to hire 20 expert staff to ramp up sampling at the CervicalCheck lab. There is currently only staffing capacity at the €20m lab to handle 25% of samples. The rest go abroad. thecurrency.news/articles/24…

Ireland’s cervical screening lab has the equipment. Four years later, the staff are still missing

At the end of 2022, the National Cervical Screening Laboratory opened to great fanfare –  a major €20 million investment in screening services in Ireland. The publicly-owned flagship facility at the...

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A big thanks to Marie Gleeson @marie_prior for sharing her personal stories and discussing all things leadership related. Marie‘s book, Be Like The Sea, is part memoir, part cheat sheet on leadership. It is available on mariegleeson.com. thecurrency.news/articles/24…

What the Navy, a Tipperary farm, and losing a child taught Marie Gleeson about leadership

Marie Gleeson is a woman who wears and has worn many hats. One of Ireland’s first female naval officers, she is also a first-time author, having recently published her memoir, Be Like the Sea....

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Return of the gladiators: what will the new club season bring for Irish rugby’s big four?

There is a small window every September when every rugby team in Ireland is perfect. The new jerseys are still in their plastic and nobody has missed a tackle since June. Teams have trained well for...

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For 25 years, Shannon Airport has been the flashpoint of a moral battle over the darker side of our transatlantic relationship. In the first of a two-part series for @thecurrency, I dive in the quarter-century standoff at the midwest airport. thecurrency.news/articles/24…

Hard landing – Part 1: The quarter-century standoff at Shannon Airport

On the morning of April 11, 2026, a C-130 Hercules US military aircraft sat on the tarmac at Shannon Airport, the midway point on its journey from the Missouri Air National Guard to a forward...

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Could an Internal player loan system work in Irish rugby ? thecurrency.news/articles/23…

The game-time conundrum: How to fix Irish rugby’s production problem

Leo Cullen was asked about Joey Carbery at Leinster’s pre-season game last Saturday, and he reached back eight years to answer it: “He should never have gone in the first place, but that’s what...

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Another day, another book launch! Kevin Rafter’s excellent book on Vincent Browne and Magill
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Tom Lyons@TomLyonsBizSep 16
Serious pressure on Irish retailers. This is just published on @thecurrency. thecurrency.news/articles/23…

BabyDoc Shop’s rapid growth ends in liquidation as consumer spending falls

BabyDoc Shop, a nursery retailer with stores in Deansgrange, Co. Dublin and Limerick as well as online, has gone into liquidation after a sharp fall in consumer spending and trading in 2026. The...

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The Currency@thecurrencySep 15
Irish officials flagged “high risk” before sign-off on dual-use exports to Israeli arms industry writes @Niall_Sargent thecurrency.news/articles/23…

Irish officials flagged “high risk” before sign-off on dual-use exports to Israeli arms industry

The Government approved exports of military-capable dual-use goods to the Israeli weapons industry at the height of the country’s assault on Gaza despite officials raising serious concerns over...

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I attended 2 #Top14 games last weekend - what I learnt and why it’s probably the best league in the world (on & off the field). thecurrency.news/articles/23…

The show is the business model: What Brett Igoe learned on a fact-finding trip to the west coast of...

Looking through the teams involved in the French Top 14 table in 2009-10, there is something you will notice. Albi, Bayonne, Biarritz, Bourgoin, Brive, Castres, Clermont, Montauban, Montpellier,...

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If you haven't listened to this brilliant podcast by @cescacomyn on @thecurrency about the AIB Belfry scandal, you are missing out. It is up for a prestigious award in London tonight. It deserves every accolade. thecurrency.news/articles/23…

Belfry: Weighing up the human cost of an AIB scandal

This time last year, Ian and I were in the studio finishing up an investigative two-part podcast we made for The Currency about investors burnt by the AIB Belfry funds scandal. Around 2,5000 indivi...

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Some thoughts on the budget and the public finances. Outside the paywall. thecurrency.news/articles/23…

The budget Kabuki must end: Rewinding the week that was

Budgets used to be events of theatre, events the nation tuned into.  Some years the budget was so secret the Taoiseach himself barely knew what was in it before it was presented to Cabinet – I am...

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The Currency@thecurrencyAug 27
Replying to @bauermediaIRL
@bauermediaIRL CEO Chris Doyle: “I don’t think creating another version of Newstalk is a strategy” Interview by @AlanEnglish9 thecurrency.news/articles/23…

Bauer CEO Chris Doyle: “I don’t think creating another version of Newstalk is a strategy”

There was a moment during the meteoric rise of Chris Doyle, CEO of Bauer Media Audio Ireland, when it all might have gone horribly wrong. For the first time, Doyle was sitting around a table with...

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The most innovative coach in world rugby at the moment ? Why? Todays piece on Rassie Erasmus #RSAvNZL thecurrency.news/articles/23…
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The Currency@thecurrencyAug 19
Dita Von Teese to the High Court: What went wrong at Harvey Nichols. The luxury retailer arrived in Dundrum with huge ambitions and a spectacular opening party. Court filings now reveal a very different story writes @ipkehoe thecurrency.news/articles/23…

Dita Von Teese to the High Court: What went wrong at Harvey Nichols 

If the liquidation was subdued, almost understated, the opening was anything but. On September 8, 2005, a string of Irish fashionistas, television personalities, and socialites made their way to the...

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Dr. James Mahon, Journalist (SFHEA)@JamesMahonTVAug 15
One of the most compelling pieces of sports broadcasting I’ve ever seen
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I visited Cobh after the Port of Cork's trespass case against a local campaign group collapsed. The result is a feature that weaves personalities, legal matters and some Cobh history (going back to Queen Victoria!) for @thecurrency: thecurrency.news/articles/23…
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Tom Lyons@TomLyonsBizAug 7
This is an important story with some incredible detail in @thecurrency on Irish Nationwide and Nama. It also contains the first comment by the Fingleton family on the passing of former Irish Nationwide managing director Michael Fingleton. thecurrency.news/articles/23…
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Tom Lyons@TomLyonsBizAug 3
Michael Fingleton has passed away. I wrote about him for many years. thecurrency.news/articles/23…

“Someday maybe we’ll talk more”: The long shadow of Michael Fingleton

Michael Fingleton’s voice was raspy but unmistakable.  It was late April 2018 and I’d rung him after hearing he was unwell. Fingleton acknowledged his health was poor, but he was sparky. I’d co-wri...

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Michael Fingleton has passed away. @TomLyonsBiz looks at his life and legacy. thecurrency.news/articles/23…

“Someday maybe we’ll talk more”: The long shadow of Michael Fingleton

Michael Fingleton’s voice was raspy but unmistakable.  It was late April 2018 and I’d rung him after hearing he was unwell. Fingleton acknowledged his health was poor, but he was sparky. I’d co-wri...

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