Never heard of it today. Being an internet site associated with a business paper doesn’t make it any less fringe—countless papers simply have connections to online content producers. Did you read that other article I posted a selection from? That doesn’t suggest an agenda beyond reporting business news? They also post fiction, something I’ve yet to see in business journals.
I read the article you excerpted from. Looks like it was meant to be satire; if so, the spirit of Swift isn't doing too well in Ireland!
As for there being an agenda beyond reporting news, how is that different from any other newspaper you've come across?
And it's obvious that Vincent Browne's op-ed isn't intended as fiction. BTW, I looked up "Vincent Browne" on the internet and he seems like an Irish journalist who doesn't have any particularly sinister connections (except perhaps for the fact that he's a barrister!).