The Government has committed to holding a referendum on a new EU-wide patent court in 2023 or 2024. But firms warn Ireland could lose out on foreign investment if it fails to act sooner.
Higher costs, rather than Brexit or Covid, were behind a large dip in Dublin Port Company’s profits last year.
Here we are on the eve of the day dedicated to celebrating American independence at the same time that a critical form of it has been snatched away from one half of its population by the Supreme Court.