Out of Office: Ireland’s business with China and taoiseach Simon Harris?

Welcome to the Business Post’s Out of Office, your daily round-up of the day’s business, tech, markets, legal and politics news - the latter of which came in abundance on Thursday.

Much of the morning and early afternoon was spent watching senior Fine Gael TDs rule themselves out of the running for the party’s leadership after Leo Varadkar’s shock resignation as Taoiseach on Wednesday afternoon.

Daniel McConnell: Varadkar failed to become the leader he claimed ...