IRN’s top 5 stories of 2025 (so far)...

Lucy Barnard Senior Web editor

30 June 2025

It may not seem like it but today marks the halfway point of 2025. In a year marked (so far) by intensifying geopolitical tensions and heightening trade barriers, Lucy Barnard looks at IRN’s most-read stories of the last six months and picks out the biggest trends. 

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“Stay alive until 2025,” was the motto adopted by much of the construction industry in 2024 signifying a desire to make it through the difficult conditions of a slowing global economy, rising interest rates, rampant inflation and an uncertain political outlook.

Since then of course, firms that had been hoping…

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