Stewart Kenny
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The ‘covidpreneurs’ of 2020: ‘You couldn’t mill the flour fast enough’
- Life & Style
- June 20, 2020, 06:00
Meet the miller who worked all night, the car-parts sellers who started flogging frisbees, the gin makers who switched to hand sanitiser,(...)

Former Paddy Power man Barry takes a bet on CarTrawler
- Technology
- February 7, 2020, 05:07
Having played a key role in making Paddy Power an online success, there were raised eyebrows when it emerged that Cormac Barry was leaving the group’s(...)

Paddy Power reaches for Stars to create global gaming group
- Retail & Services
- October 5, 2019, 06:00
Flutter Entertainment’s reach for the Stars could turn the Irish group into the world’s biggest betting business. The plan to merge with Toronto-liste(...)

Eddie O’Connor seeks €10m for new venture
- Business
- July 21, 2019, 14:47
Renewable energy entrepreneur Eddie O’Connor is seeking to raise €10 million of investment for his latest venture, Supernode, which aims to develop te(...)

Sky pledge to limit gambling advertising from 2019
- English Soccer
- November 5, 2018, 14:30
Sky have responded to growing concerns about the number of gambling advertisements on television by announcing that they will show a maximum of one pe(...)

Leading figures call for gambling advertising to be restricted
- Sport
- October 27, 2018, 06:00
The amount of gambling advertising in sport is becoming problematic for fans, and in particular children, according to leading figures in the bookmaki(...)

Bookies got it ‘hopelessly wrong’ when ad regulations were relaxed
- Sport
- October 27, 2018, 06:00
Sports gambling is becoming increasingly ingrained in social culture in Ireland with technology the driving force behind it, but the issue on the othe(...)

Argument for cut in fixed-odds stakes a losing bet for Paddy Power
- Retail & Services
- April 26, 2018, 06:02
No good deed shall go unpunished. It’s a well-worn phrase but one that must strike Peter Jackson and his team at Paddy Power Betfair as depressingly a(...)

David Power, co-founder of Paddy Power, to retire
- Retail & Services
- February 8, 2018, 06:15
Bookmaker and Paddy Power co-founder David Power is retiring from the business following next month’s Cheltenham jumps’ racing festival. Mr Power (71(...)
![Micksgarage founders Mick and Ciaran Crean. “We are trialling a fitting network. Some of our customers fit their own accessories, but others are DIFM [do it for me] customers.” Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Micksgarage founders Mick and Ciaran Crean. “We are trialling a fitting network. Some of our customers fit their own accessories, but others are DIFM [do it for me] customers.” Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons](/polopoly_fs/1.3335548.1513879377!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Micksgarage plans to launch ‘Airbnb for garage services’
- Retail & Services
- December 22, 2017, 05:55
Micksgarage, the online retailer of car parts and accessories backed by a number of corporate heavy hitters, is planning to launch “an Airbnb for gara(...)