It would be an understatement to say that there’s a lot going on in the US right now. Michael Lohan, the chief executive of IDA Ireland, recently returned from a trip to the US to meet clients and take the lay of the land for companies planning investments internationally and to sell them on Ireland. The US is a regular destination for IDA chief executives to visit given the sheer volume of US firms investing in Ireland but on this occasion, there was a lot more on the agenda than normal. That is down to everything, from the turbulent political…

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