Adam Maguire

1 week ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

Consumer complaints about an airline’s baggage rules are par for the course – especially at this time of year, as airports fill with summer travellers. This week, though, a far more significant complaint was made about the practices and prices that carriers impose – with the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) asking the European Commission to look at what it says are the "undue fees to consumers for their hand baggage".

1 week ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

Private equity firm Waterland Ireland plans to invest up to €150m in Irish firms over the next 12 to 18 months. Since launching its Irish arm in 2019, the firm has invested in 30 businesses here. That includes Co Westmeath-based Writech, Co Louth wholesaler Bellew Electrical and care home group Silver Stream. It says the Irish firms it has invested in now have combined revenues of €600m - up 71% over the past 18 months. Meanwhile they employ 3,500 people - up 75% over the past year and a half.

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

The fact that Donald Trump's 'Liberation Day’ tariff plan received a near universal chorus of disapproval internationally would not have been much of a surprise to the US President or his team. If anything, opposition from the countries that had – in their minds – been ripping the US off for so many years only meant the plan would work. But if there was one voice among that chorus that would have made Trump & Co rethink their approach, it probably would have been an Irish one.

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

Irish retailers have welcomed a European Union proposal to add a €2 flat fee on all packages coming from outside the bloc. Yesterday EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic told the European Parliament that ecommerce platforms outside the EU would be expected to add the fee, which would go towards the costs customs officials face in processing such orders. At the moment packages worth €150 or less that are imported into the EU directly by consumers are exempt from customs charges.

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

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