Mark May

1 month ago | thesun.ie | Mark May |Adam Higgins

EUROPE needs to take on the US in a tit-for-tat tariff war to push back against Donald Trump’s bullying, the leader of Ireland’s largest business group has declared. It comes as the US President slapped a 25 per cent tax on European car manufacturers and warned that the Irish pharma industry is next. Tanaiste Simon Harris warned the public that Ireland is facing into “a time of major uncertainty” amid concerns that tariffs on our pharmacy industry could devastate the economy.

1 month ago | thesun.ie | Mark May |Ellen Fitzpatrick

US President Donald Trump has threatened to target Ireland's pharmaceutical industry in his latest bout of tariffs. Trump announced that he would be implementing a 25 per cent tariff on all non-US made cars imported into the country, as well as giving hints for his next tariff target. A month after initially saying he had plans to place a "25 per cent or higher" tariff on foreign-made pharmaceuticals, Trump has named dropped Ireland in his latest hint.

Jan 6, 2025 | thesun.ie | Mark May

TEACHER Enoch Burke is facing a €1,400 a day fine after he turned up for work today at Wilson’s Hospital School. Burke has previously been jailed for contempt of court for refusing to abide by an order directing him to stay away from the school. He arrived at his former workplace in Multyfarnham in Co Westmeath just after 9am as students arrived back after the Christmas break.

Dec 8, 2024 | thesun.ie | Mark May

IT WAS a quarter of a century in the making, but the Mercosur trade deal was finally concluded this week. The agreement was announced on Friday by European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, at a summit in Montevideo, Uruguay. Although negotiations have concluded, the EU-Mercosur deal still needs to be approved by at least 15 of the European Union’s 27 member nations, representing a minimum of 65 per cent of the EU population.

Dec 5, 2024 | thesun.ie | Mark May

THE family of the late Detective Superintendent Colm Fox have told how the top cop was “broken” by the Regency hotel murder. Det Supt Fox, 56, was overseeing the investigation into the gangland killing of David Byrne in Dublin in February 2016. He was found dead in his office at Ballymun garda station on the evening of February 10, 2018. Det Supt Fox was in charge of the Byrne probe and its related trial which was taking place at the time of his death.