#Ireland: Davy increases #Irisheconomic growth forecast

Forecast based on strong exports and rising demand but broker cites concerns on housing

“The key reason for the upward revisions to our forecasts is Ireland’s export performance,” says to a Davy report. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times

Irish stockbroker Davy has raised its forecasts for Irish economic growth for this year and next on the back of continued strong exports and an uptick in domestic consumer demand... (read more)

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#Ireland: A plan to save the #Irisheconomy

In an extract from a new biography, the former civil servant Ken ‘TK’ Whitaker recalls the drafting of the plan that turned Ireland’s economy around in the late 1950s, a time of emigration, unemployment and political pessimism

Financial architect: Ken Whitaker, photographed in March this year, at the age of 97. Photograph: David Sleator.

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