'Economy to boom for 15 years'

NCB Stockbrokers says the implications for the economy generally are extremely bullish based on the population projections out to 2020.

The reports identifies the baby boomers of the 1970s and early 1980s as uniquely important to the ongoing solid outlook.

Between 1971 and 1983 over 900,000 people were born in Ireland, with the annual number of births averaging almost 70,000.