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Irish Independent
11 hours ago
- Business
- Irish Independent
Lipstick sales soar and men's underwear slumps: Behind the TikTok craze for recession indicators
Quirky indicators of where the economy may be going are popular on social media. While it may be tempting to dismiss them, these ideas can have tangible effects on how people choose to spend, money experts tell John Meagher Last month, an English TikTok content creator – known mononymously as Yasmin – posted a video on the platform, titled 'My Recession Indicators'. The twentysomething listed several indicators that made her believe a recession is imminent.
Irish Independent
11 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Independent
‘He builds players up but will also throw them under the bus': Inside the passionate mind of Damien Duff
He's more dedicated to his home base than the trappings of wealth. Now he has shocked the Irish soccer world by quitting as Shelbourne manager. John Meagher profiles the old-school boss who demands high standards Ciaran Harmon remembers the occasion like it was yesterday. It was April 2024, and Shelbourne – the League of Ireland club he supports – had just beaten fellow Dublin rivals St Patrick's Athletic at home. Damien Duff walked over to where he was standing with a vocal contingent of Shels supporters. What happened next made headlines. Duff – Shelbourne head coach, ex-Blackburn, Chelsea, Newcastle and Fulham star, and long-term Ireland international – asked Harmon to deliver the post-match team talk.
Irish Independent
16-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Independent
The Indo Daily: Brian O'Driscoll and Amy Huberman Incorporated: The million-euro empire
Now, they're the faces of a €12 million brand machine, selling everything from luxury wine to grinds for Leaving Cert students. Their secret? A carefully curated public image, relentless hard work and a knack for commercial timing. Tabitha Monahan is joined on The Indo Daily by Irish Independent journalist John Meagher to trace how O'Driscoll and Huberman leveraged media savvy and turned it into market dominance. But fame has a shelf life. Can Brand BOD keep evolving before the public moves on?
Irish Independent
30-05-2025
- Science
- Irish Independent
‘If you were their dad, you'd never shut up about them': how Stripe founders Patrick and John Collison came full circle
As the billionaires' firm was announced as sponsors of the Young Scientist competition that catapulted Patrick into the limelight, John Meagher charts the brothers' remarkable rise It was January 2005, and the Irish Independent's headline declared 16-year-old Patrick Collison 'the smartest redhead in Ireland'. He had just won the Esat BT Young Scientist of the Year, 12 months after finishing a runner-up in the competition.
Irish Independent
30-05-2025
- Science
- Irish Independent
‘If you were their dad, you'd never shut about them': how Stripe founders Patrick and John Collison came full circle
As the billionaires' firm was announced as sponsors of the Young Scientist competition that catapulted Patrick into the limelight, John Meagher charts the brothers' remarkable rise It was January 2005, and the Irish Independent's headline declared 16-year-old Patrick Collison 'the smartest redhead in Ireland'. He had just won the Esat BT Young Scientist of the Year, 12 months after finishing a runner-up in the competition.
