Peter Flanagan

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Peter Flanagan

As the Dublin Airport passenger cap row rumbles on, the Government has been asked to consider a “high speed bus network” for the Shannon catchment area as part of a strategy to wrest aircraft traffic from Dublin Airport. As Mark Hilliard reports, in a letter outlining the need for a fundamental rethink of aviation policy across the island, Shannon Airport Group chief executive Mary Considine also argued the west of Ireland terminal would probably see a rail link before the capital.

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Peter Flanagan

Britain’s declared a “new chapter” in its relationship with the European Union, which in turn hailed the UK’s new “positive energy” towards the bloc, after the two sides struck a landmark deal over issues including trade, defence, travel and food exports. Mark Paul and Jack Power report. Mark meanwhile breaks down what is involved, and why the deal came about in the first place. Eoin Burke-Kennedy meanwhile looks at the ramifications for Ireland.

2 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Peter Flanagan

IF YOU THOUGHT that society had become ‘too woke’, you’ll be pleased to read that in Britain we are now living with the alternative. Aid budgets have been slashed, the Supreme Court has ruled that trans women aren’t women, and xenophobic sentiment is now so mainstream that even the Labour Party has embraced it. Less than a year in office, and Keir Starmer has been delivering on the kind of conservative agenda that the Tories only dreamed of.

3 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Peter Flanagan

Promised tax cuts in the budget may have to be jettisoned if the EU fails to secure a tariff deal with the US, Minister of State for International Development Neale Richmond has warned. Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports that the shock to global trade from US tariffs had left the Irish economy in a “tight” situation and that October’s budget would be “very different” to its predecessors.

3 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Peter Flanagan

Days after a testy AGM, the board of dairy co-op Tírlan has been urged to seek expert advice on how it should dispose of its stake in Glanbia plc. As Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports, Tírlan has lost up to €500 million on the value of its holding amid a slump in Glanbia’s share price and is in the process of spinning out 15 million Glanbia shares to members but at a greatly reduced value, an issue that has created tensions within the group.