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Full coverage: Brexit

Morgan Stanley just shuttered three Irish holding companies. But why?

The Wall Street giant is voluntarily winding up the companies by the year's end. Could it be part of a wider corporate restructuring of its Irish offering out of its IFSC hub?

Niall Sargent
2nd Dec, 2024 - 2 min read

A post Brexit reality: What the HSBC case means for moving European Works Councils to Ireland

The bank had moved its EWC to Ireland after Brexit but faced a challenge from UK-based representatives claiming it should retain some functions in the UK. The courts disagreed.

Jonathan Keane
24th Jul, 2024 - 4 min read

“We got ahead of the game and then AI in the last year has accelerated the process massively”

My Baggage has invested €250,000 in new AI capabilities to help ship personal effects through customs with greater ease. It’s now targeting more business in the US.

Jonathan Keane
16th Jul, 2024 - 4 min read

Neither a Blair tribute act nor a Corbyn burial: Keir Starmer is betting it all on growth

The incoming British prime minister has ruled out rejoining the single market and is betting the UK's transformation on rampant economic growth.

Michael Cogley
5th Jul, 2024 - 8 min read

The power of persuasion: What are EWCs and why are so many now in Ireland?

A few years ago, there were only a handful of European Works Councils in Ireland. Now there are more than a hundred as US multinationals adopt the country as a legal base. David Hopper, partner with Lewis Silkin, discusses the repercussions of this post-Brexit legal phenomenon.

Francesca Comyn
29th Mar, 2024 - 7 min read

Self-determination: Why LK Shields remains proudly independent

With mergers off the table, managing partner Richard Curran talks to The Currency about promoting the mid-tier practice as a modern, dynamic law firm while cleaving to the trusted qualities its clients value. 

Francesca Comyn
13th Feb, 2024 - 9 min read

Like ancient Britain and modern France, Brexit UK will just turn to Europe again

The Brexit heat is cooling. The Boris parties are over. The Rishi hangover is hurting. With the Windsor Framework agreed and Stormont likely to return, the tumult is finally abating. Time to take a little stock.

John Looby
9th Aug, 2023 - 3 min read

Brexit has failed; there’s a major war in Europe; the left has collapsed and the far right is surging: Making sense of the permanent crisis

Cork-born Gerard Delanty is one of the most distinguished global figures in the world of academic social theory, an intellectual space in which politics, philosophy and, sociology come together. Here he turns his attention to Brexit, Europe, Ukraine and Ireland.

Fergal Lenehan
29th Jul, 2023 - 12 min read

Tommie Gorman: The day Rishi Sunak said ‘No more’

The British government is no longer prepared to let the second largest party in its smallest devolved administration decide the terms and the pace of the UK’s relationship with its nearest and most important trading partner, the EU.

Tommie Gorman
28th Feb, 2023 - 7 min read

Liz Truss is likely to damage EU-UK relations further. The only question is the timing

Of the two remaining Oxford-educated candidates for UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss is in the lead. Her reliance on the Conservative party’s hard right will mean a tough line on the Northern Ireland Protocol - though not out of conviction.

Peter Kinsella
11th Aug, 2022 - 5 min read
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