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Policy Editor, Business Post | dmurray@businesspost.ie | Host of #fivedegreesofchange | Investigative Journalist of the Year 2022, Political Journalist of the Year 2023 & 2024
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New: Plans for promised marine protection law to be dropped and folded into existing offshore wind consenting scheme.

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Plans for marine protection law to be dropped and folded into existing offshore wind regulations
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June 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Ireland may be more exposed to Trump’s trade war than we think

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Ireland may be more exposed to Trump’s trade war than we think
The use of contract manufacturing in countries like China means Ireland could be further exposed to tariffs on other parts of the world too
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April 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Ireland part of New Fortress Energy’s plans to develop data centres on ‘more than 1,000 acres of land’
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Ireland part of New Fortress Energy’s plans to develop data centres on ‘more than 1,000 acres of land’
The US company behind the controversial Shannon LNG project detailed its plans to facilitate the ‘explosive growth in artificial intelligence’ in its latest annual report
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March 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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New: Officials warned Eamon Ryan LNG was necessary even with additional clean energy measures

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Officials warned Eamon Ryan LNG was necessary even with additional clean energy measures
The former minister for environment has requested new analysis be carried out to see if LNG was really necessary
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March 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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State spending on private healthcare grows 700% since Sláintecare

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State spending on private healthcare grows 700% since Sláintecare
The Department of Health has also confirmed that it is facing a €400 million hole in its budget from next year due to the removal of private care from public hospitals
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March 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Is Sláintecare achieving the opposite of what it set out to do?

How Sláintecare ‘turbocharged’ the private health system.

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How Sláintecare ‘turbocharged’ the private health system
Eight years on from the launch of the cross-party plan to build a single-tier public health system, private hospitals are booming, the numbers with health insurance are up, and the state has got hooke...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Circle K second fuel supplier to cease imports of suspicious biofuel
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Circle K second fuel supplier to cease imports of suspicious biofuel
The scale of Pome imports from Malaysia and Indonesia has caused unease across Europe and led to allegations of widespread fraud
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March 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Inver, a major fuel supplier in Ireland, stopped importing ‘suspicious’ biofuel last year over sustainability concerns

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Inver stopped importing ‘suspicious’ biofuel to Ireland over sustainability concerns
There are growing concerns huge volumes of biofuel imports from outside the EU, purporting to be from waste sources, are actually from virgin palm oil
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March 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The EU’s decision to put reciprocal tariffs on €26 billion worth of US goods imports is “reasonable and proportionate” but a deal to avoid them is still possible, Simon Harris has said.

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Simon Harris: Trump’s trade war ‘bad for everyone’ but EU had to respond to US tariffs
The tánaiste said EU tariffs were reasonable and proportionate and added that he hoped a deal could be done with Donald Trump so they wouldn’t be needed
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March 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Revealed: US Embassy raised concerns over Irish LNG and data centre policies before both were changed

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Revealed: US Embassy raised concerns over Irish LNG and data centre policies before both were changed
New documents released to the Business Post show meetings between the US embassy and Eamon Ryan over LNG and data centre policy
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March 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Green Generation’s receivership sparks emergency talks with government on ‘epidemic’ of biofuel fraud

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Green Generation’s receivership sparks emergency talks with government on ‘epidemic’ of biofuel fraud
Irish biomethane producers have said that the scale of biofuel fraud in Europe is leading to an unequal playing field
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March 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Ireland’s phantom exports (goods physically produced elsewhere but registered as exports here on the balance sheets of multinationals) have declined for 2 years in a row, following a decade of exponential growth, new analysis from the Business Post shows.

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Phantom exports coming back to haunt taoiseach ahead of Trump meeting
Figures previously described as ‘farcical’ by Micheál Martin will have to be defended during his Washington trip this week
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March 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Government examining ‘role of private sector’ in delivering LNG as Greens allege ‘climate rollback’
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Government examining ‘role of private sector’ in delivering LNG
Finance minister Paschal Donohoe said the coalition wanted to identify if there was any role for the private sector in delivering the gas
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March 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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The government is considering outright restrictions on importing certain biofuels over concerns that they are not what they say they are.

It comes as the industry has admitted there are “reasonable questions” about potential fraud in biofuel supply chains

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State to restrict biofuel imports as industry admits problems over potential fraud
Concerns have emerged that biofuel imports from Malaysia and Indonesia are driving deforestation
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March 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The Irish government has abandoned its official opposition to fracked gas imports, paving the way for liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports from the United States.

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Government U-turn on fracked gas clears way for US imports into Ireland
The move is a signal that fracked gas from the United States may be used to refuel the state’s proposed LNG facility
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March 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Revealed: The €9 billion fossil fuel footprint in Irish private pensions

The new data shows for the first time the the average exposure of private pensions in Ireland to fossil fuels
as reported by @danieltmurray.bsky.social here (paywall!):
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Revealed: The €9 billion fossil fuel footprint in Irish private pensions
The new data shows for the first time the the average exposure of private pensions in Ireland to fossil fuels
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March 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Deregulatory superpower? Davy, Deloitte and Baker Tilly advisors react as EU takes blow torch to ESG
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Davy, Deloitte and Baker Tilly advisors react as EU takes blow torch to ESG
There has been cautious welcome for some elements of the EU’s ‘simplification’ of regulations, but also wide concern about backsliding on environmental commitments
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March 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The government is set to approve Ireland’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at a cost of €300 million, with environment minister Darragh O’Brien bringing a memo on the project to cabinet this week.
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Government to approve Ireland’s first LNG facility in €300m ‘state-led’ project
The terminal is to be a state-led emergency gas reserve in the form of a floating storage regasification unit
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March 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Ireland will contribute up to €750 million to a new EU security fund for Ukraine as Europe doubles down on its support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the wake of his disastrous meeting with Donald Trump on Friday.
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Ireland backs €20bn Ukraine war fund in wake of Trump-Zelenskyy fallout
The damaging fallout from Zelenskyy’s meeting with the US president has ratcheted up the tension ahead of Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s meeting with Trump next week
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March 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Exclusive: The government is to take action to prevent the importation of potentially fraudulent biofuels into Ireland, after the National Oil Reserves Agency raised concerns about the source of the fuels, the Business Post can reveal.

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Exclusive: Government moves to block biofuel fraud
The transport minister has ordered officials to end incentives which are linked to potential fraud
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February 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The Irish government must not support a commercial liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal or allow fracked gas imports from the United States, a group of energy experts have warned.

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Energy experts warn Ireland against plan for US fracked gas imports
Letter follows Business Post report revealing new plans for commercial LNG and American imports
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February 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Major structural changes to the tax system will be required to support growing spending pressures on the state and to address the “serious vulnerability” of Ireland’s “extremely narrow” tax base, finance officials have warned.
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Ireland’s narrow tax base a ‘serious vulnerability’, Department of Finance officials warn
The Department of Finance also warned that public expenditure had increased by over 50 per cent in five years which ‘cannot be sustained’
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February 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Micheál Martin’s ‘on the hoof’ housing plan leaves Fine Gael blindsided and bewildered
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Micheál Martin’s ‘on the hoof’ housing plan leaves Fine Gael blindsided and bewildered
A proposal to replace rent pressure zones left the coalition scrambling for answers last week
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February 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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The north-south interconnector is to be delayed by another 3 years to 2031. Means major trouble for climate targets, and lumps huge additional costs onto customers bills. The state is now moving to CPO land of resisting landowners
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Revealed: State plots compulsory land purchases as €350m north-south interconnector delayed yet again
The project has been in the works for the best part of two decades, but now faces yet another delay
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February 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Data centre developers will face new restrictions under a long-awaited grid connection policy to be revealed by the energy regulator this Tuesday, the Business Post can reveal
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New energy restrictions on data centres to be unveiled
The energy regulator is attempting to balance the huge demand for data centre connections to the grid
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February 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM