The Irish Times

European stocks are trouncing their US counterparts. Can it continue? Probably not, says Barclays, with the rotation from US to European stocks looking “stretched” after a record-breaking run and the valuation gap having “substantially narrowed”.

Investigations into the activities of an Irish payroll manager alleged to have passed trade secrets from his own firm to a rival are focusing on where a payment to the manager came from, the Commercial Court heard.

George Clooney is conscious of time passing. “I had this conversation with Amal when I turned 60,” he says. “I said, ‘Look, I can still play full-court basketball. I can still run around. I can still do pretty much everything I did when I was 30. But in 30 years, I’m 90. That’s a real number. My dad just hit that. And there are some things you’re not doing no matter how many granola bars you eat. We have to focus on the next 20, 25 years of making sure that we’re jamming in everything we can.’ Not just work, because no one at the end of their life goes, ‘God, I wish I worked more.’”

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Plans by Harry Crosbie for a new hotel and 200 seater “Baby Vicar” entertainment venue for Dublin’s docklands are facing local opposition.

Web Summit’s headquarters in Dublin has been put on the market with a guide price of €4.5 million, just days after the technology conference company’s founder and chief executive Paddy Cosgrave settled three bitterly fought High Court actions with his former business partners.

The two women killed in a road traffic collision in north Cork on Sunday have been named. Mary Coughlan (64) from Kings Square, Mitchelstown and Susan O’Sullivan (41) of Beechwood Drive, Mallow were both pronounced dead at the scene of the two-vehicle crash on the main Mallow-Killarney road.

The President of the High Court has confirmed a €393,512 fine on Waystone Fund Management (IE) Limited (WFM) for failing to respond adequately to red flags and conflicts of interest in the management of an investment fund.

Among the things this Dubliner likes about the US is the sense of wide open space, in contrast to Dublin. “Space is in abundance here. You notice it around housing and car park spaces. Last time I tried to park a car in Dublin, I couldn’t get over it. There’s more space here, even in the shopping aisles.”