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The dissolved company that formerly owned the five-star Doonbeg resort in Co Clare is facing a €12m claim from its former US parent. The claim is not without difficulties, and reveals the complex global structures that financed Doonbeg's construction.

As the Trump administration continues along the path of deficits-financed economic expansion, the question that investors must start asking is at what point will debt supply start exceeding debt demand, even with the Fed continuing to throw more cash on the fiscal policies bonfire?

The younger cohorts of the Democrats hold zero allegiance to the old Washington Consensus that guaranteed Ireland’s place in the world of global commerce. Instead, they view exports to the US with both suspicion and distrust.

Industry experts warn of a “disproportionate” impact on Ireland as new US tariffs are set to hit European exports in two weeks’ time.