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Business Today |
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Friday, 16 January, 2026 | | |
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Editor's Note |
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Good morning, reader |
The national grid’s ability to hold up to the growing needs for power from society has been a recurring theme in recent years. Yet the problems now appear to have reached the point that Ireland is losing out on foreign direct investment over electricity concerns. Arthur Beesley has the story, and also details the problems in
greater detail here.
Smurfit Westrock and a number of other cardboard box-makers have been sued in a Milan court by hundreds of businesses, who allege in a collective claim that they were overcharged for years as a result of anti-competitive practices in the industry. Joe Brennan reports.
State officials will bang the drum for investment in Irish housing at this year’s MIPIM, the world’s premier real estate event, taking in the French city of Cannes in March, amid signs private capital is beginning to flow back in to the sector here. As Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports, Ireland attended MIPIM on a pilot basis last year but it will for the first time have an official Irish pavilion at this year’s event.
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