Record numbers at work: A lot done but ...

It would be churlish, and probably self-defeating too, to do anything other than celebrate the CSO data showing a record 2.3m people worked in the Irish economy in the second quarter of the year. That this mark has been reached a decade after a staring-into-the-abyss economic implosion is worthy of celebration too.

The systems, the agencies, the innovators and investors, the planners and politicians too, and most of all, the workers who led this rejuvenation deserve thanks and credit. This robustness suggests too that we will survive even the hardest Brexit.