Padraic Halpin

2 weeks ago | thesun.ie | Padraic Halpin |Adam Higgins

PRICE hikes, job losses and “recessionary trends” across the globe are incoming on the back of Trump’s tariffs but Taoiseach Micheal Martin believes: “Ireland can weather this storm.”As EU leaders call for talks to avoid a trade war, the White House warned “this is not for negotiation” with President Trump not planning to back down. The enormous 20 per cent tariff on all EU goods travelling into the US has set Europe and America on a collision course that could devastate the Irish economy.

3 weeks ago | carlow-nationalist.ie | Padraic Halpin |Maggie Fick

Padraic Halpin and Maggie Fick, ReutersAs US president Donald Trump takes aim at the mostly American-owned pharmaceutical factories that dot the Irish countryside, the people of Carrigtwohill are getting nervous. A cluster of high-tech plants offering well-paid jobs has transformed the Co Cork town, quadrupling its population in just two decades.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Padraic Halpin |Maggie Fick

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3 weeks ago | msn.com | Padraic Halpin |Maggie Fick

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3 weeks ago | kfgo.com | Padraic Halpin |Maggie Fick

By Padraic Halpin and Maggie FickCARRIGTWOHILL, Ireland (Reuters) – As U.S. President Donald Trump takes aim at the mostly American-owned pharmaceutical factories that dot the Irish countryside, the people of Carrigtwohill are getting nervous. A cluster of high-tech plants offering well-paid jobs – the product of Dublin’s strategy of attracting multinationals with generous corporate tax policies – has transformed the southerly rural town, quadrupling its population in just two decades.