Brexit is already weighing on UK economy as it approaches a fork on the road

While the Irish economy has continued to perform very strongly over the past couple of years, despite all the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, the same cannot be said of the UK economy.

In its latest quarterly update, the Economic and Social Research Institute puts the underlying growth rate of the Irish economy at between 4.5% and 5% for 2018, much the same as in the previous two years. Employment has continued to grow by around 3%.