Premium Article - Thursday, 29 April 2010
Declan Purcell, a 12-year veteran of Ireland's Competition Authority, has been named the authority's interim chairman as the government carries out a recruitment process for a permanent replacement for former head William Prasifka.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 16 February 2010
The head of Ireland's Competition Authority, William Prasifka, is departing from the enforcer to become the country's financial services ombudsman, the authority announced yesterday.
Premium Article - Thursday, 11 February 2010
Complaints from waste operators in Dublin have led Ireland's Competition Authority to open an abuse of dominance investigation of the Poolbeg waste incinerator plant, sources have confirmed.
Premium Article - Friday, 08 January 2010
Ireland’s Panda Waste Services has won its challenge against a decision by Dublin’s four local authorities to amend their waste management regime.
Premium Article - Monday, 30 November 2009
Dublin’s Central Criminal Court today sentenced an individual to 28 days' imprisonment in connection with his part in a car dealership cartel. He is the first person to be jailed in Ireland after being found guilty of violating the Competition Act.
Premium Article - Monday, 09 November 2009
Ireland’s Competition Authority has conditionally cleared the merger of two free newspapers.
Premium Article - Friday, 16 October 2009
Ireland’s largest fixed-line company has settled a bundling and margin squeeze dispute with telecoms regulator Comreg on the eve of trial at the Irish High Court.
Premium Article - Friday, 28 August 2009
Ireland’s Competition Authority has launched an in-depth investigation of a bid to combine the country’s two free daily newspapers.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Ireland’s Competition Authority has approved Vodafone Ireland’s acquisition of BT Communications Ireland’s fixed-line retail business for residential customers and small and medium-sized businesses.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Ireland’s Competition Authority has found that government proposals to provide one year of free pre-school education to all pupils do not constitute price fixing.
Premium Article - Monday, 17 August 2009
Ireland’s Competition Authority will allow television companies two-year monopolies to provide pay-TV services to apartment buildings in the country, it announced on Friday.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Featured In: August/September 2009 (Vol. 12 Iss. 8)
As Ireland struggles with the worst recession since the Second World War, the country’s Competition Authority finds itself under pressure from both the public and private sectors. Ron Knox examines how the authority has handled the adversity, and what the future might hold
Premium Article - Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Featured In: August/September 2009 (Vol. 12 Iss. 8)
Over the past two years, the Irish economy has transformed from the “Celtic Tiger” of the early 2000s into a poster child for the economic crisis. While they once feasted on a bounty of merger cases, the country’s major competition practices now subsist on a mix of state aid and regulatory work. Ron Knox explains
Premium Article - Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Featured In: August/September 2009 (Vol. 12 Iss. 8)
William Prasifka has led Ireland’s Competition Authority during one of the worst economic downturns of the past century. Ron Knox spoke to him about the authority’s successes and struggles over the past few years
Premium Article - Monday, 27 July 2009
The two main pub organisations in Ireland have been found guilty of breaching a prior court order banning them from suggesting pricing policies to their members.
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