Plight of precariat must be addressed

Nearly 160,000 people have significant variations in their hours of work, writes Michael Clifford

WE’RE on the road back to the future. The economy is booming, and likely to get boomier, as once put by the pied piper of the tiger years, Bertie Ahern.

This is to be welcomed, as long as it’s sustainable, or at the least capable of ending in that elusive outcome known as the soft landing.