Analysts: Strong export growth is slowing down

Irish export and manufacturing growth could take a sizeable hit this year on the back of currency fluctuations and continuing global weakness.

Irish exporters are still set to outperform their European peers in 2016, but new figures have shown a significant decline in industrial production levels.

Preliminary CSO data for March yesterday showed a 12.4% annual fall in manufacturing production levels; starkly widened from a 0.8% year-on-year decline in February.