Business owners in Northern Ireland welcome €72.3m Covid-19 recovery grant

Finance Minister, Conor Murphy pictured with Glyn Roberts, chief executive of Retail NI and Kieran Sloan, managing director of Sawers in Belfast. Picture: William Cherry/Presseye/PA

The owners of businesses that were allowed to remain open during the Covid-19 lockdown but saw their trade disappear have welcomed grants to aid their recovery.

More than £72m is being paid in £5,000 and £10,000 grants to 13,000 businesses.