Clare Independent T.D. Michael McNamara has criticised the Government's Mandatory Hotel Quarantine strategy, which he described as "a half-baked exercise in optics" and a "flawed measure" in the context of an unchecked border with Northern Ireland and when the majority of persons arriving in the state whether by air, sea or over land are not tested for variants of Covid-19.
Major change can always be subject to glitches, and the current delays being experienced by hauliers and freight forwarders in transporting goods from Ireland to the United Kingdom, while linked to issues with technology, can also be partly laid at the doors of some exporters and importers who don’t have the systems in place for trading with the UK as a third country.
Clare Independent TD Michael McNamara is warning of "a precipitous drop" in the prices of cattle and milk in a few weeks’ time if a Brexit trade deal is not done.
The European Journalism Centre (EJC), in partnership with the Facebook Journalism Project (FJP), has confirmed that 68 more news organisations and freelance journalists will receive grants through Wave 2 of the European Journalism COVID-19 Support Fund.
exida, a world leader in functional safety, industrial cybersecurity, and alarm management, has announced that it has chosen Shannon as the location of a European Centre of Excellence, creating 25 roles over the next five years.
The UK will leave the European Union at 23:00 today, Friday, 31st January. While the UK is leaving the EU, there is a transition period until the 31st December 2020 during which the UK will adhere to all EU rules and trading relationships.