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Full coverage: UK

Major Irish-owned UK construction contractor enters administration

Henry Construction Projects had over £400 million in revenue in 2021 and is led by its founder, Irishman Mark Henry.

Tom Lyons
13th Jun, 2023 - 2 min read

“We could never work out what the British wanted. I sort of rationalised that they were betting on it as an experiment”

A central architect of the Good Friday Agreement, Sean O hUiginn is considered a giant intellectually by those who worked with him on all sides. He talks about the personalities and the process, Anglo-Irish relations, and the nature of diplomacy.

Dion Fanning
8th Apr, 2023 - 10 min read

Derek Quinlan: “I will spend the remainder of my life under Nama’s shadow unless I accept I am insolvent”

Derek Quinlan, the Irish financier, has petitioned for bankruptcy in the UK. New filings reveal how much he owed and why he made the decision.

Tom Lyons
23rd Nov, 2022 - 4 min read

What if the Bank of England’s emergency intervention is a foretaste of things to come, not just in the UK but elsewhere?

It was the UK and the Bank of England last week – and it could be the eurozone and the ECB in the firing line over the coming weeks. I’ll be keeping a closer eye on Italian bond spreads.

Peter Kinsella
7th Oct, 2022 - 5 min read

Liz Truss is likely to damage EU-UK relations further. The only question is the timing

Of the two remaining Oxford-educated candidates for UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss is in the lead. Her reliance on the Conservative party’s hard right will mean a tough line on the Northern Ireland Protocol - though not out of conviction.

Peter Kinsella
11th Aug, 2022 - 5 min read

“In Rose’s view, the Canary Wharf bomb forced the British to the negotiating table”

Rose Dugdale led an extraordinarily complex life which is captured in full by Sean O'Driscoll in his book. He talks to Dion Fanning about the good and the bad of the upper-class British woman turned IRA operative.

Dion Fanning
6th Aug, 2022 - 2 min read

Brexit After Boris: Great reconfiguration or temporary restructure?

The UK is in a moment of reconfiguration as its economy begins to restructure around the reality of Brexit. Not the lies, but the reality of a diminishing economy which requires more forms and more detail of those who want to sell into it.

Stephen Kinsella
14th Jul, 2022 - 6 min read

Lasers, 3D printing, and an electric car: The ninth decade of an Irish inventor

Dublin-born billionaire engineer David McMurtry is working with the next generation – including an Irishwoman – on the future of all these things. In exclusive interviews, he and the executives leading Renishaw's latest projects talk past, present and future.

John Reynolds
30th Jun, 2022 - 15 min read

Boris Johnson’s need to be loved will be his downfall in the end

Comments allegedly made this week by Boris Johnson were a callous dismissal of the lives lost to Covid-19, but other failings could bring down the UK's prime minister.

Dion Fanning
1st May, 2021 - 6 min read

Why Irish law leads the way for financial service products being sold into the EU after Brexit

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.

Muiris O'Dwyer
8th Dec, 2020 - 3 min read
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