Deirdre Foley
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Clerys liquidation could have two years left on the clock
- Retail & Services
- January 15, 2019, 05:07
As the new owners of the Clerys site gear up to transform it into a high-grade, mixed-use development, the entrails of the shuttered Dublin department(...)

Stench lingers after Natrium’s peace deal with Clerys staff
- Retail & Services
- March 24, 2017, 05:30
Perhaps it was the glare of the publicity, or maybe it was having to line up with a fist-pumping cadre of trade unionists for a family photo outside t(...)

Private equity firm paid €3.7m by Clerys in run-up to sale
- Retail & Services
- October 5, 2016, 01:00
Gordon Brothers, the Boston private equity firm that sold Clerys hours before it was liquidated last summer, were paid €3.65 million from the departm(...)

Clerys owner exploits tax avoidance loophole
- Commercial Property
- October 4, 2016, 15:24
Control of the company that bought Clerys in a controversial €29 million deal last year is ultimately held in a complex type of tax-avoidance vehicle(...)

Seen & Heard: Deirdre Foley’s Clerys inspector claim
- Media & Marketing
- July 10, 2016, 21:05
Clery’s controversy The Sunday Independent reports a claim by property developer Deirdre Foley that State labour inspectors who are investigating th(...)

State has six weeks to see if €29m sale of Clerys broke law
- Technology
- May 2, 2016, 01:00
The Government has less than six weeks to ascertain if the contentious €29 million sale and closure of Clerys last year involved any breaches of empl(...)

Natrium sets sights on Apple Store in Clerys building
- Retail & Services
- April 22, 2016, 05:00
The consortium that bought the Clerys store in Dublin for €29 million is trying to lure Apple to open a flagship retail outlet on the ground floor of (...)

Caveat: Facebook’s IOG case spells OMG for Ireland
- Companies
- March 25, 2016, 08:30
When Facebook, Twitter and Google established their international headquarters in Dublin, they didn’t just bring investment, exotic tax accounting pr(...)

Caveat: High time booming hotels paid VAT in full
- Commercial Property
- March 4, 2016, 08:00
The news this week that DIT’s Cathal Brugha Street hotel school is for sale reminded me of the wonderful years I spent there in the late 1990s. The in(...)

Cheyne changes its man on the board of Clerys company
- Retail & Services
- January 29, 2016, 09:20
Cheyne Capital, the London hedge fund that gave the developer Deirdre Foley the financial welly for her €29 million Natrium buyout of Clerys, has chan(...)