Irish Examiner view: Happy 20th birthday to the euro

The currency, and the European Central Bank, may be about to experience a higher level of turbulence than when it emerged, shiny and blinking, into the world

We were told that Ireland’s participation was a sign of the country’s economic maturity.

Back in this week in 2002, the Irish Examiner marked the arrival of a new currency on its front page with a typographical device no doubt considered highly innovative. 

“Dawn of a new €ra” it proclaimed, making eloquent use of the new symbol positioned five keys in from the left at the top of a qwerty keyboard.