‘Neglected’ exporters face crisis

IRISH exporters will lose billions in sales this year because issues affecting the industry are not being dealt with quickly enough.

According to the president of the Irish Exporters Association, Brian Ranalow, the difficulties facing exporters seem to be neglected despite their importance to the Irish economy. He told the association’s annual lunch yesterday, that the country was facing another year of declining exports to its major markets if current trends continue.

Last year was the slowest year of growth for Irish exports in a decade and this year the outlook, even with half the year to go was looking quite gloomy.