Cormac McQuinn
Political Correspondent at Irish Times
Political Correspondent with the @IrishTimes. DMs are open or email [email protected]
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5 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Cormac McQuinn
Irish seafood business The Good Fish Company has ambitious plans to export to the United States later this year. In March it scooped the best new retail product gong at the Seafood Excellence Awards in Boston for its “Atlantic Salmon with a Guinness sweet honey mustard melt and panko crumb”. It finalised a distribution deal for a range of products due on the shelves of US supermarkets in September. Then two weeks later Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs.
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6 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Cormac McQuinn
Ireland “absolutely won’t” be pulling out of Eurovision over Israel’s inclusion in the song contest, RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst has said. His remarks come after it emerged he has asked the European Broadcasting Union for a discussion on Israel‘s participation.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Cormac McQuinn
Tánaiste Simon Harris has warned of “new challenges” and the possibility of “difficult decisions” as the European Union prepares to publish proposed countermeasures against US tariffs in the event that negotiations fail. On Thursday the EU is expected to announce a further range of US goods it could hit with retaliatory trade tariffs.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Cormac McQuinn
A complainant’s counselling notes will be disclosed in sexual assault trials only if the court decides they are relevant, under plans for changes to the law approved by the Cabinet. While the proposals mean there would be automatic disclosure hearings to decide on the use of the notes, they stop short of ending access to them, something that had been sought by campaigners due to the distress caused by their use in trials.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Cormac McQuinn
Sinn Féin has accused the Government of deliberately misleading the public when stating a €1 billion allocation to Uisce Éireann was “additional” funding earmarked for new capital spending. The party’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin has written to three Government Ministers seeking an “urgent clarification” on the destination of the funding, announced in the budget.
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