The risk of recession has become Irish households’ top concern for the first time in Bank of Ireland’s quarterly savings and investment index. As Dominic Coyle reports, the threat of tariffs and the impact of unrest in the Middle East mean it overtook worries about the cost of housing.

A ruling from safety regulators allowing most departing passengers at Dublin Airport to keep liquids up to 100ml in their bags is imminent, sources say. Passengers have had to keep removing liquids from their baggage at Dublin, even while passing through new scanners supposed to eliminate this need, following a temporary European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) ruling last year, but that may soon change. Barry O’Halloran reports.

Uniphar, the Dublin-listed diversified healthcare services group, will need to spend as much as €150 million on mergers and acquisitions to reach its medium-term earnings target, according to Deutsche Numis. Joe Brenna has read the research, including the downgrading of the healthcare firm.