IMF marks Ireland down on youth unemployment

Ireland has received good marks from the IMF over the ways it redistributed taxes to prevent a potential social disaster during the financial crisis, but the country misses out on top marks on the ways it tackled youth unemployment, writes Eamon Quinn. 

The Washington-based fund—which was the junior party in the troika during the country’s painful bailout — has published a hugely significant report on how the peoples of the EU fared during the global financial crisis.