Irish firms fear difficulties lie ahead in rolling out new Brexit border controls in the UK, which have been delayed for a fifth time until next January.
P&O Ferries to scrap Dublin-Liverpool ferry route travelmole.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from travelmole.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Eamon Quinn: Joe Biden s tax plan puts Ireland and the multinationals back in the frame
The sting for Ireland is the US president s proposal to raise the Trump-era minimum tax rate on earnings generated overseas by US companies to 21%.
US president Joe Biden and Taoiseach Micheál Martin during a virtual meeting for St Patrick s Day. Mr Biden s new plan could upend the global tax regime that has anchored Irish prosperity since the late 1980s. Picture: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Sat, 10 Apr, 2021 - 06:30
In the thick of a global pandemic, any initiative to overhaul global tax will likely leave most people cold.
Business Journalist
At the end of a tough year for much of humanity, Irish and British people had one reason to have a joyous Christmas in 2020.
News that an EU-UK trade deal had been struck on Christmas Eve meant they could finally stop hearing about the B word that dominated news day in, day out for the past five years or more - or at least until it had to share the headlines with a novel coronavirus.
However, in some ways, Brexit has only just begun.
The talking has pretty much ended, but the practicalities of Brexit became apparent very quickly when consumers were suddenly faced with the occasional empty supermarket shelf in the early days of January and the news that Percy Pig may not grace their sweet bowls anymore.