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Full coverage: IDA

Dan O’Brien: “Tariff man” Trump poses a Brexit-scale challenge to Ireland. A Brexit-scale response is required

Trump’s first-term tariffs were small and on a limited number of goods. A blanket tariff on all imports of at least 10% is almost incomparable and would have an outsized impact on Ireland.

Dan O'Brien
8th Nov, 2024 - 5 min read

“We have to concentrate on what’s in our control”: IDA boss on navigating FDI in a tumultuous world

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.

Jonathan Keane
8th Aug, 2024 - 10 min read

A transparency battle: The IDA’s failed bid to halt the release of a client survey

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?

Niall Sargent
28th Jun, 2024 - 5 min read

Code, risk and cyber security: The internal audits of the IDA

Deloitte conducted 21 internal audits between 2018 and 2022 into various aspects of the state inward investment agency. What do they reveal about the IDA?

Rosanna Cooney
19th Dec, 2022 - 3 min read

The hard yards: How Terry Clune built a kingdom

One of Ireland's most successful entrepreneurs, Terry Clune is personally understated but has interstellar ambition. In an in-depth interview, he discusses a potential IPO of his unicorn TransferMate, the bitter dispute with Connect Ireland, and a car accident that almost killed him.

Rosanna Cooney
16th Jun, 2022 - 14 min read

“Critically urgent”: In the scramble for Covid supplies, did the IDA scupper a €7.5m ventilator deal?

A Wicklow supply company claims it is €3.5 million out of pocket because the IDA induced the HSE to withdraw from a ventilator contract. The development authority has launched a full-blaze defence.

Francesca Comyn
29th Jun, 2021 - 11 min read

The HSE was sued when a €7.5m emergency ventilator deal collapsed last March. Now it’s the IDA’s turn

Ireland's agency for foreign direct investment is being blamed for the HSE's withdrawal from a contract to buy critical ventilators. The Irish medical supplies firm who lost out on the deal now wants the IDA to pay damages.

Francesca Comyn
15th Oct, 2020 - 3 min read
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