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Ireland may be more exposed to Trump’s trade war than we think

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Apr 2

Ireland may be more exposed to Trump’s trade war than we think

www.businesspost.ie/analysis/ire...

The use of contract manufacturing in countries like China means Ireland could be further exposed to tariffs on other parts of the world too

Ireland part of New Fortress Energy’s plans to develop data centres on ‘more than 1,000 acres of land’

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 20

Ireland part of New Fortress Energy’s plans to develop data centres on ‘more than 1,000 acres of land’
www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...

The US company behind the controversial Shannon LNG project detailed its plans to facilitate the ‘explosive growth in artificial intelligence’ in its latest annual report

Officials warned Eamon Ryan LNG was necessary even with additional clean energy measures

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 19

New: Officials warned Eamon Ryan LNG was necessary even with additional clean energy measures

www.businesspost.ie/news/officia...

The former minister for environment has requested new analysis be carried out to see if LNG was really necessary

State spending on private healthcare grows 700% since Sláintecare

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 17

State spending on private healthcare grows 700% since Sláintecare

www.businesspost.ie/news/state-s...

The Department of Health has also confirmed that it is facing a €400 million hole in its budget from next year due to the removal of private care from public hospitals

How Sláintecare ‘turbocharged’ the private health system

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 17

Is Sláintecare achieving the opposite of what it set out to do?

How Sláintecare ‘turbocharged’ the private health system.

www.businesspost.ie/news-focus/h...

Eight years on from the launch of the cross-party plan to build a single-tier public health system, private hospitals are booming, the numbers with health insurance are up, and the state has got hooke...

Circle K second fuel supplier to cease imports of suspicious biofuel

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 15

Circle K second fuel supplier to cease imports of suspicious biofuel
www.businesspost.ie/news/circle-...

The scale of Pome imports from Malaysia and Indonesia has caused unease across Europe and led to allegations of widespread fraud

Inver stopped importing ‘suspicious’ biofuel to Ireland over sustainability concerns

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 13

Inver, a major fuel supplier in Ireland, stopped importing ‘suspicious’ biofuel last year over sustainability concerns

www.businesspost.ie/news/inver-s...

There are growing concerns huge volumes of biofuel imports from outside the EU, purporting to be from waste sources, are actually from virgin palm oil

Simon Harris: Trump’s trade war ‘bad for everyone’ but EU had to respond to US tariffs

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 12

The EU’s decision to put reciprocal tariffs on €26 billion worth of US goods imports is “reasonable and proportionate” but a deal to avoid them is still possible, Simon Harris has said.

www.businesspost.ie/news/simon-h...

The tánaiste said EU tariffs were reasonable and proportionate and added that he hoped a deal could be done with Donald Trump so they wouldn’t be needed

Revealed: US Embassy raised concerns over Irish LNG and data centre policies before both were changed

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 12

Revealed: US Embassy raised concerns over Irish LNG and data centre policies before both were changed

www.businesspost.ie/news/us-emba...

New documents released to the Business Post show meetings between the US embassy and Eamon Ryan over LNG and data centre policy

Green Generation’s receivership sparks emergency talks with government on ‘epidemic’ of biofuel fraud

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 11

Green Generation’s receivership sparks emergency talks with government on ‘epidemic’ of biofuel fraud

www.businesspost.ie/news/green-g...

Irish biomethane producers have said that the scale of biofuel fraud in Europe is leading to an unequal playing field

Phantom exports coming back to haunt taoiseach ahead of Trump meeting

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 10

Ireland’s phantom exports (goods physically produced elsewhere but registered as exports here on the balance sheets of multinationals) have declined for 2 years in a row, following a decade of exponential growth, new analysis from the Business Post shows.

www.businesspost.ie/news/phantom...

Figures previously described as ‘farcical’ by Micheál Martin will have to be defended during his Washington trip this week

Government examining ‘role of private sector’ in delivering LNG

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 7

Government examining ‘role of private sector’ in delivering LNG as Greens allege ‘climate rollback’
www.businesspost.ie/article/gove...

Finance minister Paschal Donohoe said the coalition wanted to identify if there was any role for the private sector in delivering the gas

State to restrict biofuel imports as industry admits problems over potential fraud

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 5

The government is considering outright restrictions on importing certain biofuels over concerns that they are not what they say they are.

It comes as the industry has admitted there are “reasonable questions” about potential fraud in biofuel supply chains

www.businesspost.ie/article/stat...

Concerns have emerged that biofuel imports from Malaysia and Indonesia are driving deforestation

Government U-turn on fracked gas clears way for US imports into Ireland

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 5

The Irish government has abandoned its official opposition to fracked gas imports, paving the way for liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports from the United States.

www.businesspost.ie/news/governm...

The move is a signal that fracked gas from the United States may be used to refuel the state’s proposed LNG facility

Revealed: The €9 billion fossil fuel footprint in Irish private pensions

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Jim Scheer @jimmerz50.bsky.social · Mar 3

Revealed: The €9 billion fossil fuel footprint in Irish private pensions

The new data shows for the first time the the average exposure of private pensions in Ireland to fossil fuels
as reported by @danieltmurray.bsky.social here (paywall!):
www.businesspost.ie/news/reveale...

The new data shows for the first time the the average exposure of private pensions in Ireland to fossil fuels

Davy, Deloitte and Baker Tilly advisors react as EU takes blow torch to ESG

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 2

Deregulatory superpower? Davy, Deloitte and Baker Tilly advisors react as EU takes blow torch to ESG
www.businesspost.ie/news/davy-de...

There has been cautious welcome for some elements of the EU’s ‘simplification’ of regulations, but also wide concern about backsliding on environmental commitments

Government to approve Ireland’s first LNG facility in €300m ‘state-led’ project

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 2

The government is set to approve Ireland’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at a cost of €300 million, with environment minister Darragh O’Brien bringing a memo on the project to cabinet this week.
www.businesspost.ie/article/gove...

The terminal is to be a state-led emergency gas reserve in the form of a floating storage regasification unit

Ireland backs €20bn Ukraine war fund in wake of Trump-Zelenskyy fallout

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Mar 2

Ireland will contribute up to €750 million to a new EU security fund for Ukraine as Europe doubles down on its support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the wake of his disastrous meeting with Donald Trump on Friday.
www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...

The damaging fallout from Zelenskyy’s meeting with the US president has ratcheted up the tension ahead of Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s meeting with Trump next week

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Feb 28

Heat obligation scheme due soon, and will have to make a call on questionable feedstocks.

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Feb 28

Pome surged by over 2000 per cent in last available full annual year, from around 1,980,000 litres in 2022 to 55,688,432 litres in 2023. The vast majority of that Pome was imported from Indonesia and Malaysia.

Exclusive: Government moves to block biofuel fraud

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Feb 28

Exclusive: The government is to take action to prevent the importation of potentially fraudulent biofuels into Ireland, after the National Oil Reserves Agency raised concerns about the source of the fuels, the Business Post can reveal.

www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusi...

The transport minister has ordered officials to end incentives which are linked to potential fraud

Energy experts warn Ireland against plan for US fracked gas imports

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Feb 27

The Irish government must not support a commercial liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal or allow fracked gas imports from the United States, a group of energy experts have warned.

www.businesspost.ie/article/ener...

Letter follows Business Post report revealing new plans for commercial LNG and American imports

Ireland’s narrow tax base a ‘serious vulnerability’, Department of Finance officials warn

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Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Feb 16

Major structural changes to the tax system will be required to support growing spending pressures on the state and to address the “serious vulnerability” of Ireland’s “extremely narrow” tax base, finance officials have warned.
www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...

The Department of Finance also warned that public expenditure had increased by over 50 per cent in five years which ‘cannot be sustained’

Micheál Martin’s ‘on the hoof’ housing plan leaves Fine Gael blindsided and bewildered

Daniel Murray @danieltmurray.bsky.social · Feb 16

Micheál Martin’s ‘on the hoof’ housing plan leaves Fine Gael blindsided and bewildered
www.businesspost.ie/article/mich...

A proposal to replace rent pressure zones left the coalition scrambling for answers last week