The echoes of the recent sabre rattling of a triumphant and truculent Donald Trump were still faint in the air as some of Ireland’s leading economic minds gave a lay of the land on Ireland’s economic fortunes and foibles on Wednesday.  Laying out the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s (Ifac) position on the outgoing Government’s budgetary forecasts in an early morning briefing from its office on Whitaker Square, chair Seamus Coffey warned of the potential impact of Trump’s soundings on taxation. The possibility of the Trump administration zoning in on corporation tax repatriation “is very very significant”, he said, given Ireland’s…

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