Careers 2018: Job creation underpins new era of optimism

During 2017, the Irish economy successfully coped with the Brexit headwinds and the ongoing weakness in sterling and, above all, it has managed to sustain and build on levels of job creation evident in 2016, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Growth, here, even using the new gross national income (GNI) measure, which seeks to account for statistical distortions caused by the activities of multinational firms has been remarkably high, putting the country at or near the top of the European league table.