Driving the conversations that matter across the media landscape
“Our ambition is to stay ahead of the conversation. That means understanding the forces shaping the economy, challenging assumptions and giving our clients a clearer view of what may be coming next.”
Kate English, Chief Economist, Deloitte Ireland
Deloitte Ireland uses insight, experience and global perspective to help clients understand the forces shaping business and the economy.
You’ve seen the headlines: tariffs reshaping global trade, a Budget defining Ireland’s choices and economic uncertainty changing investment decisions. Across the media landscape, conversations about competitiveness, infrastructure and growth are moving higher up the business agenda.
These are the conversations that matter to our clients. Deloitte Ireland is helping to shape them by bringing specialist expertise into the national conversation and translating complex developments into practical insights for business leaders.
Across television, radio, print, social media, podcasts and industry forums, Deloitte professionals are interpreting what is happening now while looking ahead to what may come next. By combining local market knowledge with a global perspective, they help clients identify emerging risks, understand potential opportunities and make more informed decisions.
Few issues have moved faster in recent months than global trade. As tariffs returned to the headlines and geopolitical tensions began reshaping established trading relationships, businesses have been assessing what those changes could mean in practice.
Louise Kelly, Global Trade Strategy and Resilience Lead, has been helping businesses understand the implications for their operations, supply chains and future growth.
Louise has become a leading voice on tariffs, trade and resilience, bringing Deloitte’s perspective to national media, industry discussions and client conversations. Her focus is firmly on what happens next: where risks are emerging, where opportunities may open up and what businesses can do now to build resilience in a changing global economy.
Our clients cannot wait for certainty before making decisions. Our role is to bring together global expertise, market insight and what we are hearing from businesses to help them anticipate what is coming and respond with confidence.
Louise Kelly, Global Trade Strategy and Resilience Lead
That perspective is particularly relevant as organisations consider how changes in trade policy and geopolitics could affect market access, sourcing decisions, investment priorities and resilience. The focus is not simply on responding to the latest headline, but on helping leaders prepare for multiple possible scenarios.
Closer to home, Kate English, Chief Economist, Deloitte Ireland, is helping drive another critical conversation about Ireland’s economic future.
Across national media, including Prime Time, morning programmes and weekend analysis, as well as conference appearances and client insight sessions, Kate has brought her expertise to the issues shaping business decisions. These include growth, the labour market, competitiveness, infrastructure investment, housing and fiscal policy.
Around Budget 2026, she helped look beyond individual measures to the bigger questions: where Ireland needs to invest, what could constrain future growth and how the country can protect its competitiveness in a rapidly changing world.
That thinking continues through The D-Brief, Deloitte Ireland’s economics podcast. Kate and her Economic Insights colleague, economist Katherine Doyle, go beyond the latest numbers to explore the forces shaping Ireland’s economy and what leaders should be watching next. The podcast connects global developments with their practical implications for organisations and businesses in Ireland.
“Our ambition is to stay ahead of the conversation. That means understanding the forces shaping the economy, challenging assumptions and giving our clients a clearer view of what may be coming next.”
Louise and Kate are two examples of a wider ambition across Deloitte Ireland: to bring expertise to the conversations shaping our clients’ futures, offer a distinctive point of view and turn insight into something leaders can act on.
That means connecting global developments with local business realities, challenging assumptions and focusing on the practical implications for organisations and their people. Because in a world moving this quickly, our impact comes from helping clients understand what is changing, prepare for what may come next and stay one step ahead.
