Daniel Murray
Policy Editor, Business Post | dmurray@businesspost.ie | Host of #fivedegreesofchange
- Auto-enrolment scheme off to ‘stronger than expected’ start, Calleary reveals www.businesspost.ie/politics/aut...
- Budget 2027 faces squeeze if departments overrun spending plans this year www.businesspost.ie/politics/bud...
- No time for team building at government away day, as clock ticks on coalition delivery www.businesspost.ie/politics/dan...
- The government plans to reduce its multimillion dependency on external consultancy firms by building up their own in-house expertise in the NDFA for capital projects. Plans also to headhunt people from the private sector to fill new roles at the agency. www.businesspost.ie/politics/con...
- Cabinet briefing: Nationwide rent reform, the end of the triple lock, and retrofit overhaul www.businesspost.ie/politics/cab...
- Ireland’s spending growth highest in the EU, fiscal watchdog warns www.businesspost.ie/politics/ire...
- Red C Poll: Public split on state encouraging Irish firms into military sector. The Business Post has been reporting in recent weeks on the government’s plans to remove barriers to the Irish private sectors participation in the EU’s €800bn defence economy plans. www.businesspost.ie/politics/red...
- This investigation into Grok by European Commission to be launched today, having been delayed a week due to Greenland shenanigans last week. www.businesspost.ie/politics/exc...
- Overwhelming majority want Elon Musk’s X banned in Ireland www.businesspost.ie/politics/ove...
- Micheál Martin under pressure: Polling reveals collapse in support for both party and leadership www.businesspost.ie/politics/mic...
- Fianna Fáil in freefall: Party plummets in latest Red C Poll www.businesspost.ie/politics/fia...
- Budget committee calls for broadening of tax base as corporate tax risk grows www.businesspost.ie/politics/bud...
- Irish government MEPs have been split in a controversial vote referring the Mercosur deal to the EU's top court. www.businesspost.ie/politics/bre...
- Public finances hit from agreed US tariffs could be greater than modelled, finance officials warn. www.businesspost.ie/politics/pub...
- Trump’s Greenland power play leaves Ireland exposed on all sides www.businesspost.ie/politics/dan...
- The X Dilemma: Politicians and watchdogs stumble on Grok deepfakes www.businesspost.ie/politics/the...
- American Hustle: Harris presses the flesh in California with Apple, OpenAI and Intel www.businesspost.ie/politics/ame...
- EU to investigate X’s Grok for suspected breaches of DSA as Simon Harris insists safety is more important than tech billions www.businesspost.ie/politics/exc...
- New: Plans for promised marine protection law to be dropped and folded into existing offshore wind consenting scheme. www.businesspost.ie/politics/pla...
- Ireland may be more exposed to Trump’s trade war than we think www.businesspost.ie/analysis/ire...
- Ireland part of New Fortress Energy’s plans to develop data centres on ‘more than 1,000 acres of land’ www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...
- New: Officials warned Eamon Ryan LNG was necessary even with additional clean energy measures www.businesspost.ie/news/officia...
- State spending on private healthcare grows 700% since Sláintecare www.businesspost.ie/news/state-s...
- Is Sláintecare achieving the opposite of what it set out to do? How Sláintecare ‘turbocharged’ the private health system. www.businesspost.ie/news-focus/h...
- Circle K second fuel supplier to cease imports of suspicious biofuel www.businesspost.ie/news/circle-...
- Inver, a major fuel supplier in Ireland, stopped importing ‘suspicious’ biofuel last year over sustainability concerns www.businesspost.ie/news/inver-s...
- The EU’s decision to put reciprocal tariffs on €26 billion worth of US goods imports is “reasonable and proportionate” but a deal to avoid them is still possible, Simon Harris has said. www.businesspost.ie/news/simon-h...
- Revealed: US Embassy raised concerns over Irish LNG and data centre policies before both were changed www.businesspost.ie/news/us-emba...
- Green Generation’s receivership sparks emergency talks with government on ‘epidemic’ of biofuel fraud www.businesspost.ie/news/green-g...
- Ireland’s phantom exports (goods physically produced elsewhere but registered as exports here on the balance sheets of multinationals) have declined for 2 years in a row, following a decade of exponential growth, new analysis from the Business Post shows. www.businesspost.ie/news/phantom...
- Government examining ‘role of private sector’ in delivering LNG as Greens allege ‘climate rollback’ www.businesspost.ie/article/gove...
- The government is considering outright restrictions on importing certain biofuels over concerns that they are not what they say they are. It comes as the industry has admitted there are “reasonable questions” about potential fraud in biofuel supply chains www.businesspost.ie/article/stat...
- The Irish government has abandoned its official opposition to fracked gas imports, paving the way for liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports from the United States. www.businesspost.ie/news/governm...
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- Deregulatory superpower? Davy, Deloitte and Baker Tilly advisors react as EU takes blow torch to ESG www.businesspost.ie/news/davy-de...
- The government is set to approve Ireland’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at a cost of €300 million, with environment minister Darragh O’Brien bringing a memo on the project to cabinet this week. www.businesspost.ie/article/gove...
- Ireland will contribute up to €750 million to a new EU security fund for Ukraine as Europe doubles down on its support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the wake of his disastrous meeting with Donald Trump on Friday. www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...
- Exclusive: The government is to take action to prevent the importation of potentially fraudulent biofuels into Ireland, after the National Oil Reserves Agency raised concerns about the source of the fuels, the Business Post can reveal. www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusi...
- The Irish government must not support a commercial liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal or allow fracked gas imports from the United States, a group of energy experts have warned. www.businesspost.ie/article/ener...
- Major structural changes to the tax system will be required to support growing spending pressures on the state and to address the “serious vulnerability” of Ireland’s “extremely narrow” tax base, finance officials have warned. www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...
- Micheál Martin’s ‘on the hoof’ housing plan leaves Fine Gael blindsided and bewildered www.businesspost.ie/article/mich...
- The north-south interconnector is to be delayed by another 3 years to 2031. Means major trouble for climate targets, and lumps huge additional costs onto customers bills. The state is now moving to CPO land of resisting landowners www.businesspost.ie/article/reve...
- Data centre developers will face new restrictions under a long-awaited grid connection policy to be revealed by the energy regulator this Tuesday, the Business Post can reveal www.businesspost.ie/article/new-...
- Government moves towards commercial LNG facility in departure from Green policy. Sources cite energy security, independents in gov, trade leverage with Trump, and analysis from GNI showing difficulty of state led emergency reserve as key reasons for shift www.businesspost.ie/article/gove...
- New housing policies being examined by Gov: - Refined boom time section 23 tax breaks for developers -State backstop/guarantee of apartment purchases -Councils to be ordered en masse to reopen county development plans -Brownfield site incentives www.businesspost.ie/article/reve...
- Major demographic changes have already begun to create cost pressures in the health budget, Paschal Donohoe has said. www.businesspost.ie/news/finance...
- Government will examine Vat rates in response to OECD call to ‘broaden tax base’ www.businesspost.ie/news/governm...
- At least €9 billion of Irish private pensions are invested in the fossil fuel sector. The data is the first time the scale of Irish private pension investments in fossil fuels has been revealed, based on newly required individual company disclosures. www.businesspost.ie/news/reveale...
- Sale of ‘Irish people’s’ stake in AIB ‘short-sighted’, Sinn Féin says www.businesspost.ie/news/sale-of...
