Full coverage: Brexit

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.

Harry Hughes has just steered the century-old Westport-based family business through the global dogfight for access to PPE while acquiring a stake in a footwear manufacturer in the eye of the pandemic storm. Yet he says companies should focus on something else: Brexit.

As Ireland haggles about greenhouse gas targets, New Zealand implements new climate legislation accommodating its livestock industry – one of many common interests with Ireland. Brad Burgess, the first Kiwi ambassador to Dublin, discusses growing business links and hopes of a trade deal.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton fears 2020 could be a bruising and divisive year for Europe as Brexit talks gear up again. No matter. He is on a trade mission to champion Ireland as a legal services hub and to exploit the spoils of the UK’s withdrawal.