O’Reilly warns of recovery hubris

European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has warned against allowing the economic recovery to sideline analysis of what kind of country Ireland should be.

Ms O’Reilly said a vital debate had begun during the recession about the mistakes made in the boom and the sort of society that was worth striving for in future.

However, she said there was a risk that this still early process would be elbowed out of the way in the rush to return to the preoccupations of the Celtic Tiger era.