Sense of unease in an incomplete recovery

The OECD report highlights growth, stabilisation and reducing unemployment but for many on the ground, austerity and emigration continue to take their toll, writes Ray Kinsella

THE publication of the Government’s capital spending programme, and the imminence of what is expected to be a positive and very political 2016 budget, has moved the economy to centre stage.

It should be happy days for the Government. This raises the important challenge of how to explain the widespread sense of unease that recovery is incomplete. Something unsettling is in the air. In rural Ireland, people will point to empty shops on the main streets as a fact and a metaphor.