Ireland ‘can weather a Brexit storm’

The shock to the Irish economy if the UK were to vote next month to exit the EU would be “manageable”, Moody’s Investors Service said in a sparkling weekend report on the economy here.

Moody’s is the first authoritative international voice to play down the potential effects on the Irish economy were the UK to opt to leave the EU on June 23.

It is part of Moody’s most upbeat assessment on the Irish economy since the devastating banking crash.