Full coverage: Brexit

Comments allegedly made this week by Boris Johnson were a callous dismissal of the lives lost to Covid-19, but other failings could bring down the UK's prime minister.

The dual impact of the pandemic and Brexit has unleashed devastation across the domestic economy. One exception appears to be food manufacturing, where Irish brands could capitalise on changes in shopping habits into the future.

There is little chance that sufficient flexibility or capacity will materialise to soften the blow of the new EU-UK trade relationship. Much like Covid-19 lockdowns, public policy is now to take the Brexit hit and compensate those most affected.

The trade agreement between the EU and the UK is just days old, and supply chains are already facing disruption even as freight traffic remains low following holidays and pre-Brexit stockpiling. And this is just the start.

Two months into her new job as European Commissioner for Financial Services, Mairéad McGuinness is facing into a potential wave of debt defaults. She wants to see a more sensitive response than the past wholesale offloading of non-performing loans to overseas vulture funds.

Corporate lenders and borrowers are used to British law and the closest alternative from next year will be Irish law. Deal or no deal, we already know some niche markets are ripe for this opportunity.

Businesswoman and activist Gina Miller faced death threats as she took on the UK government twice in the courts over Brexit and won. She talks trolls, responsible capitalism, and why now is not the right time for her to enter politics.

Some of the experts most directly involved in building a UK external trade administration from the ground up took questions from Irish businesses on Monday, detailing the progress they have made with two months to go – and the gaping holes remaining to be filled for exporters and importers trading between Ireland and the UK.

With Phil Hogan gone, the focus now turns to the position he has vacated. Here is why the trade commissioner job matters, and why an Irish candidate is likely to replace Hogan.

Since the crisis began, the Revenue Commissioners have halted audit work, allowed firms to warehouse debt and rolled out the state’s wage subsidy scheme. In an exclusive interview, its chairman Niall Cody talks about Covid-19, multinational tax structures and the Revenue’s battle against tax avoidance.