A huge surge in Ireland's goods exports in the first quarter of 2025 was partially due to demand for weight loss drugs in the ...

Edward Walsh, a well-known real estate and construction tycoon from Morristown, was sworn in as the new US ambassador to ...

Trump told Martin he would have allowed pharmaceutical companies to relocate to Ireland from the United States but would have imposed a steep tariff on the firms' products. "If you want to go to ...

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US President Donald Trump's measures on US pharmaceutical companies operating in Ireland remains "somewhat uncertain", Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. Mr Martin is continuing his St Patrick's ...

Dubbed the “Shannon Free Trade Zone,” corporations were allowed to avoid taxes by building in Ireland and hiring local workers. The country also created a business environment marked by low ...

CANADA ANNOUNCES $21B IN NEW US TARIFFS AS TRADE WAR ESCALATES American pharmaceutical companies started migrating to Ireland in the early 2000s after U.S. production peaked in 2006 ahead of the ...

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen floated an 'Amazon tax' on digital ads as a counter to US tariffs. But with the ...

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Trump also said that if he drained Ireland of all the US companies "maybe I'd lose the Irish vote". "We don't want to do anything to hurt Ireland, but we do want fairness and [Martin] understands ...