are among those who have yet to claim hundreds of millions of euro worth of vouchers given to passengers as compensation for flights cancelled when Covid-19 struck three years ago. Barry O’Halloran reports, and should it become operational, that deal means Northern Ireland will remain within the EU single market, with the added benefit of access to the UK market.
On our Inside Business podcast Ciarán Hancock and Cliff Taylor are joined by Mark O’Connell, founder of Belfast-based consultancy OCO Global and Stephen Kelly, CEO of Manufacturing Northern Ireland to talk about the deal. Plus: Businessman Denis O’Brien is on track to cede control of Digicel under a plan agreed with a group of bond creditors to swap $1.8 billion of the heavily-indebted group’s borrowings for an equity stake in the business, reports Joe Brennan.
We are all guilty of it. Open a drawer and you are bound to stumble across an old smartphone or a forgotten storage drive. Households are sitting on aand we are adding to it a little more every week. The pace of tech advances may have slowed and the replacement cycles are lengthening, but we all have old devices hanging around the house or office that could be better used. So what should you do with all those devices that are cluttering up your home? Ciara O’Brien has a few suggestions.