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Investment into Local Enterprise Office clients increased from €18.2 million in 2018 to €20 million in 2019.

Irish company Greymountain Management is alleged to have defrauded online investors from Abu Dhabi to New Mexico. Its former directors are now trying to derail a multimillion-euro class action for damages.

Spurred by unprecedented low-cost long-term funding, Ireland needs to win the case in Brussels for splitting the capital budget from the current budget, and to fund the former separately as a long-term asset.

Climate change and technological disruption will impact many stocks. But savvy investors will be able to sell out of sunset industries and set up a high yielding portfolio to hand over to the next generation.

A record forest land sale has brought new foreign investors into the country, angered small shareholders and raised questions over the direction of the timber industry for the coming years.

Sterling has proven overvalued against every major currency since the Empire began to contract. Brexit will merely add to this.