From Boom to bust...

Shaun Connolly charts the Boom’s rise and fall — from its giddy inception and heady adolescence to its woeful death throes.

AND so Brian Lenihan read the last rights over the Boom in suitably sombre tones far removed from the cork-popping pizzazz of “Champagne” Charlie McCreevy at it’s christening.

The Boom had been unwell for some time, with several attempts to revive it failing.