Tag Archives: Irish Exports

My first column for The Currency covering "Ireland, global trade wars and economic growth: Why Ireland’s economic future needs to be re-imagined": https://www.thecurrency.news/articles/1151/ireland-global-trade-wars-and-economic-growth-why-irelands-economic-future-needs-to-be-re-imagined. Synopsis: “Trade conflicts sweeping across the globe today are making these types of narrower bilateral agreements the new reality for our producers and policymakers.”

Per recent discussion on Twitter, I decided to post some summary stats on changes in Irish total trade with the UK in recent years.Here is the summary of period-averages for 2003-2017 data (note: pre-2003 data does not provide the same quality of coverage for Services trade and is harder to compare to more modern data vintage). So, overall, across three periods (pre-Great Recession, 2003-2008), during the Great Recession (2009-2013) and in the current recovery period (2014-2017, with a...

Recent article in the Irish Times looks at some of the industry views on entrepreneurship in Ireland and Enterprise Ireland funding programs. Some of the comments included are from myself.Link: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/phelan-decries-scattergun-approach-to-seeding-foreign-start-ups-1.3639788.