Recently, I have started describing Ireland as having a Schrodinger’s Economy – it seems both alive and dead at the same time. In a short-term view, we appear to be thriving, the EU delinquent who worked from detention to top of the class. Unemployment is at 4.6 per cent, GDP grew by 8.2 per cent (the highest growth in the EU and greater than China), with a debt to GDP rate of 63.6 per cent compared to the peak of 120 per cent in 2013.  Some reports suggest we are the most productive nation on the planet. But it also…

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