As history has shown us, Ireland will recover

LOOKING back at the milestones in the Irish economy as I move on to the next phase of my life might be more profitable as a final exercise than trying to predict future trends.

But a glance back over history should help provide hope for the future, depressing as things are at present.

When I first started reporting on business, decades ago, one of the biggest publishing events of the year was the Foir Teoranta annual report.