Our island of exports: the businesses adapting to changing trade across Ireland
For many years, the world was an oyster for HigenX. This Galway-based firm, which specialises in hygiene monitoring solutions, sold its products as far afield as South America, but in recent times it has also seen a boom in localised exports. “And we’ve definitely seen an increase in trade to Northern Ireland,” Mike Mahoney, the company’s manager, says.