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...

Revealed: The €9 billion fossil fuel footprint in Irish private pensions The new data shows for the first time the the average exposure of private pensions in Ireland to fossil fuels as reported by @danieltmurray.bsky.social here (paywall!): www.businesspost.ie/news/reveale...

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...

Jim O’Callaghan ‘committed’ to full implementation of Defamation Bill despite previous opposition www.businesspost.ie/news/jim-oca...

Tee off: What will be the early priorities of the new government as it takes office today? www.businesspost.ie/news/tee-off...

The insurance industry has pushed back on a commitment by the next government to legislate for cancer survivors to have equal access to insurance products. www.businesspost.ie/news/insuran...

Lost in translation: How election manifestos fared in the programme for government www.businesspost.ie/news/lost-in...

Environmentally harmful spending by the government to increase nearly 40% this year www.businesspost.ie/news/environ...

Departments of Domestic Affairs and Infrastructure canned in programme for government compromise. www.businesspost.ie/politics/dep...

Editorial: As green wave recedes, political challenge is to accelerate climate action www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...

Tech industry and state to clash on new data centre restrictions. www.businesspost.ie/news/tech-in...

No new data centre grid connections until 2030 - Eamon Ryan www.businesspost.ie/news/no-new-...

Ireland’s tax system over-reliant on high earners and risky corporate tax - Parliamentary Budget Office www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...

The government will from next month be able to prevent foreign investments or acquisitions in sectors and businesses considered strategically important to the Irish state. www.businesspost.ie/news/governm...

‘A lot has changed since then’: Government eases opposition to Mercosur deal despite election pledges www.businesspost.ie/news/a-lot-h...

The beleaguered US company behind the Shannon LNG project has said the completion of its proposed Kerry terminal is now “uncertain” due to “multiple risks”, such as the regulatory environment in Ireland. www.businesspost.ie/news/shannon...

Exclusive: Gap between the volume of green electricity sold and actually generated in Ireland is widening The share of green electricity sold to customers by energy companies in 2023 was 61%, while actual level generated and delivered in Ireland was 40% www.businesspost.ie/news/gap-bet...

New carbon budget will require 67 per cent emissions reduction by 2040 www.businesspost.ie/news/new-car...

Ireland’s data centre trajectory ‘not compatible’ with carbon budgets, new research shows www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...

Ireland’s underlying tax revenues, excluding windfall corporate taxes, are at their lowest share of the economy since 1980 and narrowing rapidly. The new data again reveals the extent to which fast growing state spending is relying on risky corporate taxes www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...

Ireland facing climate fines of up to €20 billion by 2030, fiscal watchdog warns. The figure is more than twice the Department of Public Expenditure’s often cited figure of €8 billion, as it includes likely increases in cost of carbon credits. www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...

Budget 2025 spending forecasts ‘not credible’ fiscal watchdog warns www.businesspost.ie/article/budg...