Sean Pollock
Business Reporter at The Sunday Independent
Scotsman living in Dublin. Sunday Indo Business Journalist. 🇺🇦🏴
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1 week ago |
independent.ie | Sean Pollock
Roger White, who has been in post for 132 days, said criticism that C&C’s branded drinks portfolio, which also includes Tennent’s lager, had been stagnant for some time “were valid”. “I think it is an indication that we need to love what we have got a bit more first,” he told the Sunday Independent. “I think the criticism, as you suggested, is valid.
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1 week ago |
independent.ie | John Burns |Sean Pollock
The global system of trade has been undone by the US, and the sands keep shifting The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes once solved a murder because a dog didn’t bark in the night-time. That’s how we measure the damage being done by Donald Trump’s tariffs. It’s the investments that are not happening, the jobs that are not being created, the deals that are not being done, the money that is not being spent.
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1 week ago |
independent.ie | Sean Pollock
IPSA has long argued the current tax structures represent an obstacle for business owners seeking to move their company to employee ownership through Employee Ownership Trusts (EOT). The group has called for Ireland to replicate the EOT model in the UK, where there has been significant uptake through a generous relief on Capital Gains Tax (CGT).
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independent.ie | Sean Pollock
In February, John T Dorrance III, an heir to the Campbell’s Soup fortune, took a legal action against US attorney general Pam Bondi complaining he can’t legally hunt with a firearm while visiting his 16,000-acre ranch in Wyoming. This was due to him renouncing his US citizenship in 1993 and subsequently becoming Irish. In April, lawyers for the attorney general sought to have Dorrance’s case thrown out, claiming he had “forfeited” the rights that went with US citizenship.
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2 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Sean Pollock |Fearghal O'Connor
US President Donald Trump’s threat to tear up transatlantic trade with massive tariffs on European goods could halt most commerce between the EU and America, with “very damaging” consequences for Ireland, experts have warned. Last Friday, Trump took to his social media site, Truth Social, and fired off a furious post threatening the EU with a “straight 50pc tariff” on goods imported from the bloc to America.
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RT @ChristopherJM: Ben Shapiro is on the right side of this. His visit to Kyiv seems to have made a big impression.
RT @Mike_Eckel: Yuri Ushakov, Putin's top foreign policy aide, quotes Trump as saying during the call: "Vladimir, you can pick up the phone…
This isn’t satire. It’s from one of Putin’s aides.
🥴 Ushakov: The presidents of Russia and the United States addressed each other by name: Donald and Vladimir, and neither of them wanted to hang up first during a telephone conversation.
