Full coverage: FDI

The New York-based PR firm will be expected to help attract FDI into Ireland from high growth tech sectors.

The Waterford-headquartered engineering specialist is forecasting revenues of €550 million next year. But, as CEO John Kelly explains, this is just the start.

John Collison says that Ireland’s economic success was founded on radical ideas. However, in a wide-ranging and forthright interview, the co-founder of Stripe wonders if complacency has seeped into the system.

PwC’s head of tax Paraic Burke believes a small number of tweaks in the upcoming budget could have a big impact for domestic businesses. He talks tax breaks, FDI, and the tax policies of US election candidates.

Ireland needs to take the politics out of the Apple money as quickly as possible and use it to galvanise the country’s future. Allocating it to a sovereign wealth fund might not win votes, but it makes much economic and financial sense.

IDA chief executive Michael Lohan is tasked with growing foreign direct investment in Ireland at a time when more protectionist rhetoric is rearing its head on both sides of the Atlantic.

Dublin has long been top of the pack as a location for data centres. Now energy and infrastructure concerns in the race to net-zero emissions are leading operators to countries like Finland and Sweden instead.

The full survey results, released this month after a four-year legal battle, tell little to nothing of what we don’t already know about the agency’s client base here. So why did it push back so hard?