Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he believes the US is anxious to reach a deal on trade with the EU.

The drinks giant said it believes its current plans will mitigate around half of the impact of these higher costs.

Danny McCoy said US president Donald Trump has let ‘genie is out of the bottle’ by ‘starting something that he might not be able to control’.

Caoimhe Archibald said she had already engaged with representatives of the UK and Irish governments on the issue.

The effect of austerity on Ireland, imposed after the economy tanked in 2008, was raised as a concern ahead of the threat of US tariffs

Northern Ireland’s First Minister said UK chancellor Rachel Reeves had adopted a ‘turbo-charged Tory approach’ in her spring statement.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said he couldn’t speculate on what US products the EU could buy more of to help avert a trade war.

Workers in Dublin city and county had the highest average disposable income in 2023

Micheál Martin said the EU had to be united in any response.

Here are some of the key details of their policy programme.

Micheál Martin said the European Union needs to be ‘firm’ with the US.

In a pre-election interview, the Taoiseach also discussed the housing and cost-of-living crises.

The Economic and Social Research Institute calculated that over the last five budgets households are worse off by about 0.7 per cent of disposable income.

Party leader Holly Cairns outlined a number of long-term measures to ‘genuinely transform people’s lives’.

IF THE January transfer window seems quieter than even its usually sedate manner, then you are not wrong.