What’s the Beef with free trade?

What’s the Beef with free trade?

Perusing the Programme for Government 2025, billed as Securing Ireland’s Future, nobody can be in any doubt that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are free trade champions, writes Nick Mulcahy. The document notes that Ireland is a small, open economy which relies on trade and investment to deliver economic and jobs growth, and raise living standards. “We can never take that economic success for granted,” it says. “The open economic model which we rely o…