Business groups step up engagement with Sinn Féin as election looms

It follows Davy hosting a gathering of 50 global institutional investors in Irish sovereign bonds, banks, and Irish stock-market-listed companies

Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty spoke to global investors at a Davy gathering. Picture: Liam McBurney

The main business groups Ibec and Isme have said they have stepped up their engagements with Sinn Féin's economic and business policy makers as the general election draws closer. 

It comes after Davy, the Bank of Ireland-owned broker, hosted a gathering in the City of London last Friday with Pearse Doherty and 50 global institutional investors who hold Irish sovereign bonds, Irish bank shares, and other Irish stock market-listed companies.