“My earliest memory was of my mother reading Roald Dahl to us in bed. I later read a lot of Enid Blighton. I took a break from reading in my teens, but rediscovered it in my late twenties.

THE International Monetary Fund will be asked to run the Irish economy unless there is a major change in Government policy, according to the Professor of Banking and Finance at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business Ray Kinsella.