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Ali Cotter

@cotterali

Corporate Director @ The Currency [email protected]

 Dublin, Ireland
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I will be in Cork signing in Waterstones's Patrick's Street, all welcome. @GillHessLtd @eriu_books
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No discrimination, rather “a concerted effort” to reverse the appointment of the Port of Cork’s CEO thecurrency.news/articles/24…
No discrimination, rather “a concerted effort” to reverse the appointment of the Port of Cork’s CEO

No discrimination, rather “a concerted effort” to reverse the appointment of the Port of Cork’s CEO

In the summer of 2024, Thomas Hunter McGowan applied for the vacant position of CEO of the Port of Cork.  He didn’t get the job.  What followed was a two-year attempt “to alter the outcome of the...

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How Binance is scrambling to cover losses in the biggest heist in crypto history thecurrency.news/articles/24…
How Binance is scrambling to cover losses in the biggest heist in crypto history

How Binance is scrambling to cover losses in the biggest heist in crypto history

Binance executives are racing to cover billions in losses from the biggest crypto heist in history, a breach that blew past everything the exchange had set aside to cover such an incident. The...

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Alan English@AlanEnglish9Oct 29
Denis O'Brien interview: His thoughts on suing #Meta and "that fuckwit" #MarkZuckerberg, plus the need to regulate social media ("a fucking bunch of savage, lying c****"). Also: his views on business journalists ("grumpy fucks"), The Irish Times and more thecurrency.news/articles/24…
Up close with O’Brien: Why he quit the media business and fights “that f**kwit Zuckerberg”

Up close with O’Brien: Why he quit the media business and fights “that f**kwit Zuckerberg”

It’s coming up to 9am on a Friday morning in October and on the penthouse floor of his office at Dublin’s Grand Canal Quay, Denis O’Brien sits at the boardroom table, immaculate in a dark suit, with...

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“Highly irregular and deeply concerning”: Liquidators appointed to Liberty Recycling by @aflchambers. thecurrency.news/articles/24…
“Highly irregular and deeply concerning”: Liquidators appointed to Liberty Recycling

“Highly irregular and deeply concerning”: Liquidators appointed to Liberty Recycling

The Charities Regulator has applied to the High Court to appoint provisional liquidators to Liberty Recycling. It asked Justice Brian Cregan to appoint Shane McCarthy and Cormac O’Connor of KPMG as...

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Tom Lyons@TomLyonsBizOct 27
This is a big move - story by @aflchambers. thecurrency.news/articles/24…
“Highly irregular and deeply concerning”: Liquidators appointed to Liberty Recycling

“Highly irregular and deeply concerning”: Liquidators appointed to Liberty Recycling

The Charities Regulator has applied to the High Court to appoint provisional liquidators to Liberty Recycling. It asked Justice Brian Cregan to appoint Shane McCarthy and Cormac O’Connor of KPMG as...

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Paul Howard: “What are the sacred cows you would be prepared to slay for a united Ireland?” thecurrency.news/articles/24…
Paul Howard: “What are the sacred cows you would be prepared to slay for a united Ireland?”

Paul Howard: “What are the sacred cows you would be prepared to slay for a united Ireland?”

Here is the premise of Paul Howard’s A Nation Once Again, a devastatingly funny and piercingly perceptive novel that unpicks the absurdities in the unity question, among many other absurdities. The...

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A confidential source – and the full story of the botched investigation that failed Brian Stack and his family thecurrency.news/articles/24…
A confidential source – and the full story of the botched investigation that failed Brian Stack and...

A confidential source – and the full story of the botched investigation that failed Brian Stack and...

Twenty years ago I got access to secret information which exposed how gardaí stopped investigating the fatal shooting of prison officer Brian Stack within two months of the gun attack in March...

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Glenstal Abbey is set to close within two years thecurrency.news/articles/24…
Glenstal Abbey is set to close within two years

Glenstal Abbey is set to close within two years

Glenstal Abbey, one of Ireland’s most prestigious boarding schools, is to wind down and close. Father Columba McCann, the seventh abbot of Glenstal Abbey, has written to parents at the school,...

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Unpaid rent, students in limbo and creditors circling: Icot College goes into liquidation thecurrency.news/articles/24…
Unpaid rent, students in limbo and creditors circling: Icot College goes into liquidation

Unpaid rent, students in limbo and creditors circling: Icot College goes into liquidation

“Absolutely appalling”. That is how one teacher at the International College of Technology (Icot) described their former employer after a liquidator was formally appointed to the business. Jaye...

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Delighted to announce that my book CHARLES HAUGHEY: Glory, Greed and Guns is shortlisted for the Biography of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2026. Voting is open here: irishbookawards.ie/vote/
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🐾 PLEASE SHARE – TWO ST BERNARDS MISSING IN KILTERNAN 🐾 A resident in Kilternan has lost his two beloved St Bernards around Ballybetagh Road. If you live in the area or are travelling nearby, please keep an eye out for them. If you see either dog, or have any information that could help bring them home, please get in touch. Please share this post to help reunite these two gentle giants with their owner. Every share could make a difference #Local #Community #LostDog
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A $1bn deal and a $15m lawsuit: Inside Wayflyer’s legal skirmish with a US firm thecurrency.news/articles/24…
A $1bn deal and a $15m lawsuit: Inside Wayflyer’s legal skirmish with a US firm

A $1bn deal and a $15m lawsuit: Inside Wayflyer’s legal skirmish with a US firm

In September 2023, Wayflyer announced a deal with US investment management firm Neuberger Berman that would see it fund and purchase $1 billion (€.89 billion) worth of loans from the Irish e-commerce...

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Musk ordered Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine thecurrency.news/articles/24…
Musk ordered Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine

Musk ordered Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine

WASHINGTON— Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration, U.S....

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Vincent Browne: Part 2 – An unlikely friendship, business battles, and calling out blather thecurrency.news/articles/24…
Vincent Browne: Part 2 – An unlikely friendship, business battles, and calling out blather

Vincent Browne: Part 2 – An unlikely friendship, business battles, and calling out blather

It was up there with the most curious friendships in modern Irish history. Charles Haughey, the disgraced former taoiseach, up close and personal with Vincent Browne, the journalist who famously...

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An English language school with 100 staff and hundreds of students is going into liquidation thecurrency.news/articles/24…
An English language school with 100 staff and hundreds of students is going into liquidation

An English language school with 100 staff and hundreds of students is going into liquidation

A creditors’ meeting has been called for this Friday for International College of Technology (Icot), one of Ireland’s larger English language schools with operations in Dublin and Cork. The move...

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A Kerryman in Paris: Pictures from the ground as French capital wrestles with riots thecurrency.news/articles/24…
A Kerryman in Paris: Pictures from the ground as French capital wrestles with riots

A Kerryman in Paris: Pictures from the ground as French capital wrestles with riots

A few chilled-out days in Paris seemed like just the thing to quell the autumn blues. Still, when my friend and I arrived in the City of Light last weekend, it felt like we were entering a war zone,...

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Netflix, America’s dominant streaming service, has hit a wall thecurrency.news/articles/24…
Netflix, America’s dominant streaming service, has hit a wall

Netflix, America’s dominant streaming service, has hit a wall

Netflix is writing a new script. It abruptly replaced content chief Bela Bajaria last week just hours after a layoff of 1,000 employees that she helped engineer. By Monday, film chief Dan Lin lost...

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Thank you @PaulatThePanel for highlighting the @ncirl & @udc_edu MoU signing in your @thecurrency article on the power & value of in person networking! Continued thanks to you & the @GatewayToEurope gang for your continued support!
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Networking is a contact sport. Staying visible, meeting new contacts, learning new things, having fun! A flavour of a month of networking, from meeting my new @Talentor_Int colleagues to an @GatewayToEurope event with @DeirdreGiblin1 to the L4G event. thecurrency.news/articles/24…
Paul McArdle: In praise of good old in-person networking

Paul McArdle: In praise of good old in-person networking

One of the things I’m doing more of this year is going to more in-person events. A lot of people roll their eyes at the word “networking”. It is daunting going into a room where you know nobody....

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The power of networking - a brilliant deal for both @ncirl and @udc_edu, thanks to the @GatewayToEurope trip to Washington. @DeirdreGiblin1 a wonderful ambassador!
Dr Deirdre Giblin (@DeirdreGiblin1) profile pictureDr Deirdre Giblin@DeirdreGiblin1Oct 19
Thank you @PaulatThePanel for highlighting the @ncirl & @udc_edu MoU signing in your @thecurrency article on the power & value of in person networking! Continued thanks to you & the @GatewayToEurope gang for your continued support!
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