The benefits of wisdom through age

If you are lucky today you will be reading this article in the warm ambiance of Christmas eve in Ireland. Having your health and a reasonably stable family around you would be an added bonus. 

Having a job is yet another positive to reflect on amid the sounds and encounters that define December 24.

It is also a time to think about driving this economy and its inhabitants forward in 2015. At a local level there are straightforward levers to pull that have the strongest multiplier effect economically.