US-Irish trade, a welcome constant  during times of change

Alan Healy, Irish Examiner Munster Business Editor, looks at the enduring appeal of Ireland for inward investment

Staff of  essential oils producer doTERRA at the official opening of its Cork manufacturing facility, the company's first plant outside of the United States. 

The first half of this decade will be remembered for its volatility and the seemingly never-ending series of crises that began in its earliest days with the spread of the covid pandemic.

Followed by an unprecedented economic contraction and subsequent expansion, the War in Ukraine brought on a inflation crisis as domestically Ireland aims to address long-standing infrastructural deficits, most notably in housing.