John Malone

MHL Hotel Collection eyes completion of three big projects this year

John Malone-backed group is set to open its 14th property, a 175-bedroom hotel in Belfast by July

Wed Feb 19 2025 - 06:00

Brooks Hotel in Dublin to close for three months for €6m makeover

Four-star hotel on Drury Street in Dublin will close at the end of October and reopen at the end of January 2025

Mon Sept 16 2024 - 20:07

Battery technology leap comes into play in power plant planning dispute with stud farm

Strategic Power Projects lodges redesigned plan for battery storage system

Thu Aug 29 2024 - 17:38

Sky Ireland boosts broadband services through wholesale deal with Virgin Media

Partnership allows Sky to enhance its offer to customers and comes amid a €200m network upgrade by Virgin

Wed Oct 18 2023 - 10:48

If Netflix and Disney+ have ditched your favourite shows, here’s what’s going on

Hugh Linehan: The era of peak TV is over – so the Hollywood strikes may be a blessing for studios that were making too many programmes

Sat Aug 26 2023 - 06:00

Virgin Media parent agrees €1.5bn digital platform deal with Infosys

Indian software services giant will use ‘AI first’ technology to ‘evolve and scale’ Liberty Global’s set-top boxes

Tue Aug 15 2023 - 13:31

Powerscourt Hotel presses case for staff accommodation block on site

Powerscourt Estate owners, the Slazenger family, have objected to planning approval granted as hotel struggles to secure and retain staff

Wed Apr 12 2023 - 18:11

Going is good for Paddy Jordan, the agent behind some of Ireland’s most lucrative stud sales

Stud farms for oil-rich sheikhs, mansions for media moguls, humble three-bed semi-Ds: Paddy Jordan has bought and sold them all in the course of a storied career

Wed Feb 08 2023 - 06:00

Beacon Hospital €75m extension stalled after appeal lodged

Owners and tenants of apartment complex have made fresh submission on plan

Wed Feb 16 2022 - 17:41

Rugby partners RTÉ and Virgin should unite for more than just balls

More pragmatic alliances may soon be needed to cope with streaming competition

Mon Feb 07 2022 - 15:25

Beacon Hospital gets permission for €75m extension

Council finds scheme does not detract from area’s amenities despite local objections

Mon Jan 24 2022 - 18:08

Seventy apartment owners and tenants oppose €75m Beacon Hospital expansion

Planning application seeks 70-care bed extension and A&E facilities

Wed Sept 22 2021 - 04:57

Virgin TV targets 2019 revenues as it vies to keep Love Island audience all year round

MD Paul Farrell on The Big Deal, daytime changes and sharing Six Nations with RTÉ

Fri Sept 03 2021 - 05:54

Beacon Hospital to lodge €75m expansion plan with council

Proposed development involves substantive demolition of eight-storey Beacon Hotel

Fri Aug 20 2021 - 17:41

Eir’s owner Xavier Niel looks to take his business private

French telecoms billionaire launches offer to buy out his €11bn Iliad telecoms empire

Fri Jul 30 2021 - 12:03

Virgin Media Ireland revenues rise 3% in first half of 2021 as data usage soars

Telecoms group also points to advertising recovery at Virgin Media Television

Fri Jul 30 2021 - 10:43

Heat is on as Discovery goes for Olympic streaming gold

Pandemic-struck Tokyo 2020 has shown up size of broadcaster's Games gamble

Mon Jul 19 2021 - 13:20

Friends, episode 237: the one where the takeover goes wrong

It turns out AT&T didn’t have room on its sofa for WarnerMedia after all

Mon May 24 2021 - 15:24

Moxy hotel in Dublin sold for €35m in first major sale in sector since pandemic

Property was sold by the Spitzer family’s Midwest Holding group to MHL Hotel Collection

Fri May 07 2021 - 10:20

Rohan wins in planning row with Powerscourt Hotel over amphitheatre

An Bord Pleanála rules 214-seater wedding venue requires planning permission

Fri Apr 09 2021 - 19:04

Denis O’Brien’s Beacon Hospital to acquire Beacon Hotel

Hotel purchase is part of €75m investment in expansion of south Dublin private hospital

Fri Nov 13 2020 - 06:00

Pro14 inter-pros denied a full home audience due to Eir and Virgin dispute

296,200 Virgin subscribers won’t have access after Eir removed its channels from platform

Thu Aug 27 2020 - 06:00

Virgin Media vows to withhold sports channels until Eir ‘pays its bill’

Dispute between telecoms rivals flares up as postponed European football reaches climax

Fri Aug 14 2020 - 16:51

Liberty Global to buy Swiss phone carrier Sunrise Communications

Combination will merge Sunrise’s wireless customer base with UPC’s high-speed broadband network

Wed Aug 12 2020 - 17:56

F1 revenues almost wiped out by pandemic halt to races

F1’s revenues plummeted to $24m in the three months to the end of June from $620m in the same quarter of 2019

Mon Aug 10 2020 - 21:03

Trophy Curragh stud farm with exceptional pedigree for €4m

Eyrefield Lodge has bred many champions, including Pretty Polly, one of the all-time greats

Thu Jul 02 2020 - 06:00

Liberty Global chief executive due as much as $123m in compensation

Virgin Media owner says compensation includes income from the next five years

Tue May 26 2020 - 10:09

Paul Farrell is the new managing director of Virgin Media Television

Virgin Media Ireland executive will succeed Pat Kiely, who is leaving broadcaster in July

Wed May 06 2020 - 11:02

Telefonica’s O2 and John Malone’s Virgin Media could combine UK operations

Companies are discussing a potential deal to bring together Telefonica’s O2 mobile unit and Liberty Global’s Virgin Media, which also operates in Ireland

Mon May 04 2020 - 20:48