Russian money in Ireland: “There’s no employment activity associated with this. There’s also no taxation revenue.”
As international sanctions target an ever-increasing list of Russian interests in response to the invasion of Ukraine, Thomas Hubert's reporting has traced €13 billion worth of Irish-domiciled assets to Russian firms on the EU and US sanctions list and Stephen Kinsella has assessed the balance of forces between Moscow's military might and Western powers' economic pressure. They join Ian Kehoe to discuss how this confrontation will play out and why Ireland finds itself at the centre of it.