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Tirlán supported over 19,000 jobs in 2022 – EY report
Kelsey Daly
The study shows the relevance and importance of agriculture as Ireland’s largest indigenous industry and a significant driver of employment in rural areas.
24 May 2023 Viewpoints
Irish retail grocery trends this year
If food prices can be manipulated upwards by retailers to boost profits, they must possess market power.
17 May 2023 Opinion
China - the meteoric economic rise abates
Trade missions to three countries this week highlight the opportunity and investment by Irish businesses to target new and growing markets.
Colm McCarthy: beehives or buses for Ireland?
For a high-income country with low population density, sprawling cities and uneven access to public transport, Ireland is a natural candidate for high car ownership.
14 May 2023 Viewpoints
Young Economist of The Year finals take place
Sarah McIntosh caught up with some of the Young Economist of the Year (YEOTY) finalists at the national awards held in UCD as they celebrated ten years of the programme.
10 May 2023 Education
Colm McCarthy - Efforts to discourage car usage
Urban road space is scarce and it is prohibitively expensive to increase capacity.
10 May 2023 Viewpoints
The backbone of the food industry in NI
It is processors of livestock produced off local farms that are the real back-bone of the food industry in NI.
10 May 2023 Northern Ireland
Small-scale renewables need support, says UFU
The Ulster Farmers’ Union has raised concerns that current proposals are mainly aimed at industrial scale projects.
3 May 2023 Northern Ireland
Thoroughbred industry State funding is misunderstood
What fair-minded person could object if elderly billionaires’ champagne budgets were spent on Portakabins to shelter the street-clothes of young soccer players, left soaking in the pitch-side ditches?
3 May 2023 Viewpoints
Colm McCarthy - Ireland's ports
Small islands with decent main roads are not promising candidates for investment in rail freight.
26 April 2023 Viewpoints
Revising RHI is for Stormont, says NI secretary
In a letter to the chair of Westminster’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, Chris Heaton-Harris acknowledged that RHI tariffs need to be raised.
19 April 2023 Northern Ireland
Editorial: for one in almost five jobs, it is still worth just asking
With no state-supported monitoring of food service sourcing and previous efforts now defunct, are consumers - by not asking about provenance - knowingly turning a blind eye?
19 April 2023 Amii