The Business Post (previously The Sunday Business Post) was co-founded by Damien Kiberd, Aileen O'Toole, Frank Fitzgibbon, and James Morrissey in 1989. The paper quickly established itself as an important voice in Irish business and politics, by breaking a number of stories that set the agendas for high-profile tribunals throughout the 1990s.

The paper describes itself as "Ireland's Political, Economic and Financial Newspaper", and has a strong focus on commerce, politics and finance. The Business Post is published with a number of supplements including Post Plus (a streamlined Money and Finance section that covers market analysis, personal finance, and investment strategy), The Magazine, (an entertainment and features magazine), and a property supplement. A once-monthly Computers in Business magazine is also included. The newspaper does not have a sports section or letters section. Unusually for an Irish outlet the paper’s online version – businesspost.ie - operates a hard paywall: no content is available without some form of subscription. 

The title has moved through a number of ownership since its inception. In 1997 the original founders sold the paper to Trinity Mirror in a deal thought to be worth in the region of €7m. Five years later in 2002, Trinity Mirror sold the title onto Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) for €10m as part of a wider TCH expansion campaign which saw it acquire six print titles between 2000 and 2002. TCH was hit particularly hard by the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis, however and in March 2013, the group went into examinership. Two of the Crosbie family – Ted and Tom – immediately established Landmark Media as a vehicle to purchase as many former TCH assets as possible out of receivership. These included the Sunday Business Post but Landmark withdrew from the bidding process in April 2013. This left the field open for corporate finance firm Key Capital who paid €750,000 to acquire the business with a promise to invest a further €500,000. Staff were required to accept weaker redundancy terms as a consequence of the deal which was presented as critical to the viability of the paper. 

Though sales continued to decline thereafter, from a 2009 peak of 57,000 copies to 38,000 by 2013 and  32,000 by 2015, Key Capital nonetheless returned the Sunday Business Post to profitability in 2015 and, two years alter in 2017, announced that Sunrise Media, the vehicle used to purchase the Post (and Cork printer Webprint), was up for sale. In September 2018 it was announced that Enda O’Coineen’s Kilcullen Kapital Partners was acquiring the newspaper for an undisclosed sum.

As of 2026, O’Coineen remains the majority shareholder (57.3%) via his investment company Kilcullen Kapital partners. The remaining shares are held by Endeavour Fund Investor Nominees Limited (35%) and Swedish family-owned media group Bonnier News Business AB (17.8%) which took their stake in the Business Post Group paper in 2023. 

The print version of the paper is published once a week on Sundays but the decision to drop the “Sunday” from the title in September 2018 and rebrand as The Business Post  reflected a digital first strategy which implied a broader strategy than simply being a weekend paper. Nonetheless, as of 2025,  the print version continues to attract a weekly readership of 149,000.

(Last updated in April 2026)