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Jonathan Keane
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Journalist at The Currency

Dublin, Ireland
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And there's the response
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December 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Some EU stories on The Currency today. First up, housing. The Commission is plotting a major affordable housing programme and Ireland's housing department has seconded officials to Brussels to help in its crafting.

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The EU is plotting a major housing plan. Ireland has sent officials to hammer it out - The Currency
In the coming weeks, the EU is due to unveil its affordable housing plan and Ireland has sent officials to the European Commission to aid in its work. The Department of Housing has seconded two offici...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel participation

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RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel
RTÉ will not participate in or broadcast next year's Eurovision Song Contest after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Perplexity has moved its EU rep out of Ireland to Austria. The $20bn AI firm had used an Irish company as a point of contact for EU tech laws on compliance measures such as GDPR, but in recent weeks it shifted that function to an Austrian outfit.

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AI player Perplexity moves EU rep out of Ireland to Austria - The Currency
Perplexity, the $20 billion AI company, has moved its representative for EU rules out of Ireland in favour of Austria. The AI company, which competes with OpenAI and Google’s Gemini, had enlisted an I...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Enjoyed this piece, especially as someone who spent a not insignificant amount of his teen years painting Warhammer models.

(But it still blows my mind that Games Workshop's market cap is 5bn)

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How Warhammer won
The maker of the fantasy figurine game is now valued at £5.25bn. What keeps the battle raging on?
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December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Perplexity has moved its EU rep out of Ireland to Austria. The $20bn AI firm had used an Irish company as a point of contact for EU tech laws on compliance measures such as GDPR, but in recent weeks it shifted that function to an Austrian outfit.

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AI player Perplexity moves EU rep out of Ireland to Austria - The Currency
Perplexity, the $20 billion AI company, has moved its representative for EU rules out of Ireland in favour of Austria. The AI company, which competes with OpenAI and Google’s Gemini, had enlisted an I...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Irish Distillers registered new trademarks for Jameson in Russia as it contends with fakes on the market after pulling out of the country two years ago.

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Irish Distillers files new Jameson trademarks in Russia to fend off fakes - The Currency
Irish Distillers has registered new trademarks for Jameson in Russia, two years after its parent company pulled out of the market. Trademarks for the iconic whiskey were filed earlier this year with R...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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It's a massive red flag when companies give their staff nicknames like this. That goes for corporates and start-ups alike. It smacks of "we're a family".
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Breaking: the EU has formally terminated its WTO case against China over the coercion of Lithuania

This blockbuster case came after Lithuania opened a controversially named Taiwanese Representative Office in Vilnius

December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A Russian aircraft lessor that first entered liquidation in 2017 has finally been wound up. During the lengthy process, its main financial backer PSB was sanctioned in the West and most recently embroiled in sanctions evasion crackdown Operation Destabilise.

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After eight years, an Irish-based Russian aircraft lessor linked to sanctioned banks winds up - The Currency
A Russian aircraft lessor, registered in Ireland and linked to a sanctioned state-owned bank, has finally been wound up after a liquidator was first appointed in 2017. Pan JSC Aircraft Leasing Ltd ent...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Good god, make it stop.
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Exyte has worked on bumper projects in Ireland, such as Intel, but several contracts have wound down and not yet been replaced by others.

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With projects winding down, German engineering firm Exyte’s revenues in Ireland have halved - The Currency
Exyte, the German engineering firm behind several data-centre and pharma projects, has seen its revenue in Ireland tumble further as more of its long-term contracts have come to an end. Exyte is a des...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Just arrived this morning. @joannalillis.bsky.social's new book. Her Kazakhstan book from a few years back was excellent, so looking forward to this one.
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Sonder went into bankruptcy in the US earlier this month, bringing its European business down with it.

We look at how the Irish business performed, how the woes in the US led to its shutting down this week and reveal how it was investing in its European business.

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Inside Sonder’s collapse: A US bankruptcy drags down a stable Irish business - The Currency
On Tuesday, a creditors’ meeting was held for Sonder Hospitality Ireland Limited but it was largely a box-ticking exercise. The once high-flying US short-term letting company, which styled itself as a...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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THREAD. I was in Brussels this week at the European Commission and the Parliament. This morning we published my piece unpicking Michael McGrath's agenda and where it will all fit in with Ursula von der Leyen's vision for the EU and the EU's relations with the US.

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The EU wants to shield democracy. The bickering from tech isn’t going away - The Currency
On the eve of announcing the EU’s Democracy Shield, Commissioner Michael McGrath spoke to the reporters about what we ought to expect from the new measures aimed at protecting democracy from tech and ...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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In Brussels this week, there was a growing acceptance from Irish quarters that the Mercosur trade deal is more or less done. Now the attention has shifted to bolstering the safeguards.

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“We've made the case”: Ireland, Mercosur and the future of EU trade - The Currency
As France softens some of its language on the EU-Mercosur trade deal, Ireland finds itself under mounting pressure to accept the concessions that have been made to the bumper trade pact. That’s accord...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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ICYMI yesterday. EU commissioner Michael McGrath is pitching for expanded powers to investigate companies like Shein and Temu.
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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EU justice commissioner Michael McGrath is pitching for tougher powers for the European Commission to investigate Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu.

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"With the kind of volume that is coming our way every single day, you can't check every single item” - The Currency
European Commissioner for justice Michael McGrath is seeking a deeper role in the policing of Chinese e-commerce platforms. The Irish Commissioner, who is responsible for justice and consumer protecti...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Lurking around these parts today.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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ASML is a massive cog the world's chip industry and its Irish business has ballooned in recent years - where it largely serves only Intel - with revenues breaching the billion euro mark last year.

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ASML’s Irish revenue surges to €1.2bn as the chip game keeps heating up - The Currency
Revenue at the Irish arm of Dutch chip firm ASML has swelled to over €1.2 billion as demand for chips and geopolitical tensions grow around the technology. ASML builds highly in-demand printing machin...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Timaero, the Irish-based aircraft leasing business of Russia's VEB, sued Boeing six years ago over aircraft safety. All these years later, Boeing is accusing the company of stonewalling on discovery and depositions.

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“Total disregard”: Boeing’s legal tussle with the Irish aircraft leasing arm of Russia’s VEB - The Currency
Boeing has accused an Irish aircraft leasing company linked to a sanctioned Russian state-owned bank of “total disregard” for cooperation on discovery and depositions in the legal tussle between the t...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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"it emerged Yates had worked to provide debate preparation for the Fianna Fail candidate"

Eh... not exactly a ringing endorsement of Yates' services.

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Exclusive: Matt Cooper axes Ivan Yates from successful Path to Power podcast over Gavin revelations
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November 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Not the first time Navan has disappointed.

(I'm here all week)
theinformation.com The Information @theinformation.com · Oct 31
Travel software firm Navan had a disappointing public debut, with shares falling 20% on the first day. But earliest investors Oren Zeev and Lightspeed Venture Partners still netted close to $1 billion each on paper from their stakes. Full story here: https://thein.fo/43JFY3m
Lightspeed, Zeev Win Billions From Navan IPO
Travel software firm Navan, which weathered a pandemic, name change and government shutdown on its path to an initial public offering, had a disappointing start as a public company. Shares fell 20% on...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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While researching this story I found that if you try to join Truth Social and were born in November you're shit out of luck.
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Donald Trump’s Truth Social tapped the Dublin offices of Pinsent Masons to successfully defend its trademark in Europe.

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Trump’s Truth Social and Pinsent Masons Ireland triumph over “bad faith” EU trademark - The Currency
Donald Trump’s Truth Social has tapped the Dublin offices of Pinsent Masons to defend its trademark in Europe. The US president’s social media company, represented by Pinsent Masons Ireland LLP, succe...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM