Month: July 2026

Aughinish Alumina warned Ireland’s EU commissioner Michael McGrath that cutting off its exports to Russia would harm the European economy. The Co Limerick alumina refinery recently lobbied politicians in Brussels and Dublin to push back on calls for EU sanctions to prohibit it from selling key raw material to Russia, documents show. The Irish Times, […]

Michel Barnier may be Ireland’s favourite Frenchman. As the European Union’s chief negotiator during Brexit, he continually resisted British attempts to isolate Ireland and its concerns about the Border and threw the full weight of the EU and all its members behind the Irish government’s position. Patient, resolute, strategic and meticulously prepared, Barnier became a […]