News of rising house prices, fewer households in negative equity, falling dole queues, rising spending in the shops and the long farewell to the Troika together with a relatively benign Irish summer, so far, have lifted the economic mood a little in the Republic of Ireland. In the North the spillover from improvements in the UK wide economy are being felt. A sign that conditions are improving is when economic forecasters (among whom NERI is now counted) are ‘upgrading’ their projections of employment, output or public finances from Quarter to Quarter. more
NERI warns against over-hyping Ireland’s improving economic position
