Challenging environmentMr Herlihy says it’s become exceptionally challenging to run a retail or hospitality business in Ireland today, he says. “For the last five years, the government has been hitting businesses with cost after cost after cost,” he says. In a bid to control soaring energy costs during the early days of the war in Ukraine, the Herlihy Group invested €150,000 in energy efficient refrigerators in bid to control costs. “If we don’t have staff, we don’t have a business — simple as,” Kevin says. “They really need to listen to us.

Source: Irish Examiner November 14, 2024 18:07 UTC