Construction bottleneck; cheese and climate; and pilots up pressure on travel
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Construction faces a further slowdown as builders’ suppliers have
shut their order books this month due to a deepening raw materials crisis, writes Barry O’Halloran. Growing global demand as economies reopen combined with a shortage of raw materials have squeezed supplies of insulation, plastics and other components to the construction industry.
Glanbia’s planning battle over a new cheese plant in Kilkenny is part of
a larger debate over sustainability and tighter climate change rules in other countries, writes Eoin Burke-Kennedy. And Ireland runs the risk of tarnishing its carefully nurtured image.