An Oireachtas committee has heard that workers in the Republic of Ireland are 40% more productive than those in Northern Ireland.The gap is considerably greater in monetary terms, with Northern Ireland’s per capita income being less than half of that of the Republic of Ireland’s.Dr. Alan Barrett, CEO of the Economic and Social Research Institute … Read more
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have had a “good conversation” about the Northern Ireland Protocol. The two leaders spoke by phone on a range of issues but the conversation mostly focused on restoring the democratic institutions in Northern Ireland and the ongoing EU-UK negotiations on the protocol and British-Irish relations … Read more
Permanent TSB (PTSB) is open for applications for the Brexit Impact Loan Scheme (BILS), CEO Eamonn Crowley has announced today. The Brexit Impact Loan Scheme provides low-cost loans to Brexit-impacted Irish businesses, including those in the primary agriculture and seafood sectors. The scheme makes a fund of up to €330m available to eligible businesses with … Read more