Business

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Favourable regulations and incentives prompt focus on US

Byrne talks about his difficult time with AIB, dealing with the Anglo bond sale scandal at Davy, and the future of the stockbroking firm after he departs

Tax revenue generated in Northern Ireland goes nowhere near covering the cost of its public services

AIB managing purchasing managers’ index finds ‘very marginal increases’ in output last month

After a big recovery in the years after the financial crisis, there is renewed talk of haircuts and receiverships in the sector

Energy trader grappling with volatile power markets

Republic bucking construction trends, economists predict

Facility has not seen a commercial flight arrive or depart for seven years

Slowdown inflation spurs sentiment that interest rates may soon start to fall

Dublin Airport operator is seeking removal of limits on night-time flight activity

Provisional liquidators were appointed to Green D Project Ireland last week

Spanish billionaire Amancio Ortega’s family firm acquires Amazon e-fulfilment centre as part of Baldonnell portfolio

The two bodies have chosen not to extend the current contract with French operator Transdev

Their trade union representative Michael Kerrigan of Fórsa, said the workers had been ‘effectively removed’ from their jobs and put on ‘an unauthorised and illegal suspension’