Digicel

State earmarks offices in docklands should it win bid to host EU Anti-Money Laundering Association

Ibec’s podcast sponsorship, Collison’s Abbeyleix charity event, new roles for Altada’s co-founders, NTMA’s land deal in the docks and Digicel’s sports channel in the Caribbean

Digicel CEO to step down in December with Denis O’Brien to announce successor as chairman in ‘coming weeks’

Oliver Coughlan retires as Digicel chief executive in December, with COO Maarten Boute assuming role on interim basis

O’Neill’s bemoans impact of shorter GAA season on replica jersey sales

O’Neill’s jersey sales, media regulator’s new hires, insolvency fun in Amsterdam, Tirlán recruits McConalogue’s adviser

Digicel paid O’Brien and linked firms $90m in past three years

Company’s debt restructuring documents show how parts of businessman’s empire have continued to benefit financially from offering services to the group since he stopped taking dividends eight years ago

Digicel pays Denis O’Brien-controlled group $10m for private jet use

Seen & Heard: Developers’ backstop; vacant site judicial review; RTÉ bailout; Biden’s bills; and Tesco store plans

Renault’s lack of sales from RTÉ sponsorship, Intel and state aid, and why Digicel ‘mainly’ hires culchies

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Digicel mainly hires ‘culchies’, Denis O’Brien reveals

Dee Forbes and Munster Rugby, Garda College lands controversy, Eir CEO’s attack on ComReg, National Lottery could be on the move, GAA’s no-cash policy, and higher education headhunters

Denis O’Brien’s Digicel future, State to be minority investor in AIB and how to plan for a wedding

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Denis O’Brien to stay on Digicel board amid $1.7bn debt write-off deal

Businessman to lose most of his stake in telecoms group

BNY Mellon sets up Dublin AI hub, Revolut’s Irish business customers, and tax-free gains

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Digicel parent’s bondholders agree writedowns as wider deal for telco nears completion

Denis O’Brien-owned group expects to file for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection as part of wider debt restructuring agreement

Little green left at troubled London Irish

Any Other Business: Denis and the Damsel in Distressed; economists in a spin over Higgins; Quinn Country’s second life; EI’s funding gap; two takes on Paddy Cosgrave

Digicel bondholders to grant up to $100m bridging loan amid restructuring

Investors due to have been repaid on March 1st agree further 30-day grace period with troubled firm

Digicel seeks extended grace-period on overdue debt amid wider financial restructuring

Digicel already received 45 days of grace on the debt pile and is set to be granted another extension

Jay Bourke to bankruptcy experts: ‘I’m broke, but I’m blessed’

Plus: Ireland’s most expensive magazine? And Denis O’Brien’s campaign on Caribbean slave reparations

Seen & Heard: An Post and Royal Mail resolves issue over UK parcel deliveries

Thousands of online purchases from smaller UK retailers had been returned each day post-Brexit

Digicel plans $50m transformation investment as creditors eye control

Denis O’Brien currently owns 99.9 per cent of the group

O’Brien finally runs out of road at Digicel as creditors swoop to capitalise

In return for a debt restructuring, the tycoon is ceding control of the Caribbean mobile phone company he founded in 2001

Denis O’Brien profile: high-flying career hits fresh turbulence

The telecoms magnate is expected to lose control of Digicel, his Caribbean telecoms group

Digicel debt saga: a timeline

Denis O’Brien’s mobile telecoms operator expanded fast, but has struggled to get on top of its debts in recent years

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