Luring medicine agency here ‘would boost tourism’

Securing a powerful London-based European medicine body would provide a huge tourism spin-off in Ireland, the health minister has said.

The Government is now focused on winning the European Medicines Agency (EMA) which will have to relocate as a result of Brexit.

However, it comes as Tourism Ireland boss Niall Gibbons warned the number of UK citizens travelling abroad in 2017 was expected to fall by 2.5%.