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Nov 6, 2026

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💡The Galway man who made X pay

PLUS: Mayo's Laura Modi, a record Irish Web Summit & Bingo Loco's road to Denver

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Oct 29, 2026

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💡MuskLingus

PLUS: John Collison joins Microsoft's board, a 24-year-old raises $5m in New York & Whatnot doubles in Dublin

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Oct 22, 2026

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💡An Irishman tops the Guinness table

PLUS: Mary McKenna joins Europe's angel board, Centric Health is sold & an Offaly invention makes TIME's list

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Oct 15, 2026

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💡Zuckerberg brought his own Guinness

PLUS: OpenAI adds 200 Dublin jobs, Granite buys its third US agency & Dubsof comes home

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Oct 8, 2026

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💡The Irish are coming to Nasdaq

PLUS: Manna's boss moves to Tulsa, Budget 2027's €1bn scale-up fund & Irish Mist comes home

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💡Tyrone man buIids empire from one pallet of Tayto

Aug 28, 2026

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💡Tyrone man buIids empire from one pallet of Tayto

PLUS: Zuck buys 196-year-old Irish castle, Stripe's $7bn purchase and that time Dolly Parton visited Páidí Ó Sé's

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Aug 6, 2026

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💡Uncle Sam came second

PLUS: 9fin staff cash out, a 256-qubit machine lands in Dublin & Wayflyer's $1.5bn

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Jul 31, 2026

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💡Coming soon: The Irish AI 50

Mapping the Irish minds building the AI frontier, counting down ten a week from next week.

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Jul 23, 2026

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💡The $53bn PayPal Question

PLUS: Mulcahy brothers join Attio, EI is Europe's busiest venture investor & Ocuco raises €6m for its eyecare SaaS.

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💡"Notions": Learnosity's one billion assessments

Jul 13, 2026

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💡"Notions": Learnosity's one billion assessments

PLUS: Kenny Jacobs joins Manna's US push, Druid and Viatel go shopping abroad, and WrxFlo banks €3m for Limerick.

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💡Record-Breaking Heat & Record-Breaking Deals

Jun 29, 2026

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💡Record-Breaking Heat & Record-Breaking Deals

PLUS: £16m for a London fintech founded by an Irishman, two Irish start-ups land in Y Combinator's summer batch & a Dundalk grass whisperer signs with FIFA.

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ii Dispatch

Jun 19, 2026

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💡The exit Ireland was waiting for

PLUS: AMCS hits a $2bn valuation, KKR's €6.6bn move on DCC, CameraMatics raises €49m, and two new founders on the map.

Stephen Mullan

ii Dispatch

Jun 12, 2026

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💡€7m ARR in three months

PLUS: Wordsmith AI's $70m raise, a €404m Limerick exit, StormHarvester's global run, and Sony backs Dublin's piracy fighter.

Chris Mullan

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💡Stephen got hitched (and what we missed)

Jun 5, 2026

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💡Stephen got hitched (and what we missed)

PLUS: A French wedding, three weeks off, and a serious backlog of Irish tech wins to work through.

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💡A West Cork co-op just bought a US giant

May 8, 2026

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💡A West Cork co-op just bought a US giant

PLUS: Version 1 crosses €500M, Orreco joins MLS Innovation Lab, Ignite Partners scales AI across hemispheres, and GridBeyond opens new global HQ.

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May 1, 2026

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💡 100k subs. Two Irish lads. No VC.

PLUS: healthStay goes global, Kota hits #6 in Europe, $72M in Belfast, Vodafone's €360M Irish bet, and the startup job spec that hurts because it's true.

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