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Ukraine

Companies

Smurfit Kappa takes financial hit of over €100m as it sells Russian assets

The Irish business moved to offload its operations in the country following the invasion of Ukraine
  • Paul O'Donoghue
  • March 20, 2023
Company Watch

Keyword Studios relocated over 400 employees from Russia in 2022

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Keywords, which has its HQ in Dublin, began the process of relocating most of its staff to countries like Poland, Serbia, Armenia and Malta
  • Ellie Donnelly
  • March 20, 2023
Photography

Ireland’s leading war photographer on 15 years covering conflict: ‘There are things that are just too much to capture’

‘No Home from War: Tales of Survival and Loss’ is the first Italian exhibition by Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett. Supported and staged by fashion house Max Mara founder Achille Maramotti’s Collezione Maramotti, he describes trying to capture the fallout of conflict and displacement
  • Jessie Collins
  • March 14, 2023
Energy

Businesses get less than €4m from €200m support scheme

Applications from manufacturers were held up by delay in Department of Public Expenditure approval which was finally agreed last week
  • Michael Brennan
  • March 12, 2023
Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Tourism compensation scheme still under consideration

Government may recompense businesses for possible €1 billion losses in addition to retaining hospitality sector’s 9 per cent special Vat rate
  • Michael Brennanand
  • Killian Woods
  • March 12, 2023
Big Read

No vacancies: refugees need accommodation, but tourism industry concerned at the cost

With 32 per cent of tourist beds outside the capital being used to house migrants, businesses dependent on tourism revenue are under threat – and the government now faces a difficult choice
  • Michael Brennanand
  • Killian Woods
  • March 11, 2023
Russia

Left stranded between Russia and a hard place

The seeming prevarication of the far left on the invasion of Ukraine appears to be the aftermath of its erstwhile love affair with the former USSR rather than a pro-Putin stance, but it muddies the waters nevertheless
  • Daniel Murray
  • March 5, 2023
Trends

Lise Hand: With continuous volatility on the global political stage, where are we headed in 2023?

Amid the prospect of a 21st-century cold war, and a climate emergency, things have never felt more uncertain. But what do we know about what’s coming this year?
  • Lise Hand
  • March 1, 2023
US Politics

Marion McKeone: Biden attains world leader status, but is it enough to impress US voters?

Joe Biden’s staunch support of Ukraine is driven by his determination to leave a strong legacy. But public support for involvement in the war is waning, the 2024 election is not far off, and where the Republicans stand on it is anyone’s guess
  • Marion McKeone
  • February 26, 2023
Russia

Heineken launched stout to replace Guinness for Russian market

Drinks giant says it still intends to withdraw from Russia over Ukraine invasion, but has developed new product range selling 72 million litres of beer and soft drinks
  • Aaron Rogan
  • February 25, 2023
War in Ukraine

Elaine Byrne: Putin’s reframing of the war as a moral crusade is finding an audience beyond Russia

The Russian president has repositioned himself as a defender of traditional Christian values to gather sympathy from other conservative nations and groupings
  • Elaine Byrne
  • February 24, 2023
Ukraine

Dispatch from Ukraine: ‘It's like there are no children here; this war has made them all grow up’

On the anniversary of the Russian invasion, Kyiv-based Ukrainian journalist Oleksander Proshuta looks back on the last 12 months – a period during which childhood ended for all the nation’s children – and, despite everything, remains hopeful that the war will end this year
  • Oleksandr Proshuta
  • February 24, 2023
War in Ukraine

How Biden’s shock-and-awe tactics are failing to stop Russia

The economic punishment of Russia was touted as a game-changer. Instead it’s turned into a war of attrition
  • Bloomberg
  • February 24, 2023
The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: One year on, Russia shambles into insanity as Ukraine’s tragedy advances

Some brave Russians stand up to Putin’s blatant lies about the war in Ukraine, but it was striking to see so many of the country’s elite cowed and compliant as the Russian leader rambled on with his terrifying vision for the future
  • Vincent Boland
  • February 24, 2023
Economy

Cautious optimism, but with stern warnings: an economic forecast for 2023

Michael McAteer, outgoing managing partner of Grant Thornton Ireland, sees a return to confidence since Brexit and the pandemic, but also an acute danger to inward investment in the form of the housing crisis
  • Lorcan Allen
  • February 19, 2023
War in Ukraine

Lucinda Creighton: Ukraine’s allies may have to cross a military red line to end the war

The Ukrainian government has appealed to Nato to supply fighter jets to help it defeat Russia, and that is something that may have to be contemplated
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • February 18, 2023
Energy

Glencore shareholders get $7bn payday as ‘dirty’ coal mining drives record profit

The company has been one of the biggest beneficiaries from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which led the price of the ‘dirtiest fuel’ to soar
  • Bloomberg
  • February 15, 2023
Economy

‘Inflation peak is now behind us’ as EU to avoid technical recession

Paschal Donohoe, the Minister for Public Expenditure and president of the Eurogroup, is in Brussels today to chair the meeting of Eurogroup finance ministers, where the European Commission’s Winter Forecast will be discussed
  • Daniel Murray
  • February 13, 2023
Ukraine

Charity says refugee jobs and accommodation project will save state €8m a year

IODP/Effective Aid Ukraine is seeking more employers to participate in the scheme
  • Lorcan Allen
  • February 13, 2023
Refugees

Government starts work on 61 large buildings to accommodate 2,700 refugees

The Ukraine Refurbishment Project is being coordinated by the Department of Housing and aims to refurbish buildings offered by state and private bodies
  • Daniel Murray
  • February 12, 2023

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