Danny McCoy has seen a few Irish economies come and go. The Ibec chief executive has been with the employers’ organisation for 21 years, 17 of them in the top job. Before that, he spent years at the ESRI and the Central Bank.  His economic memory stretches back to the Charlie McCreevy era and the “have it, spend it” years, through the crash, the recovery, Covid and the extraordinary corporate tax revenues that are now flowing into the State’s coffers. So when McCoy says that Ireland is beginning to resemble the Celtic Tiger era again, it is worth listening. There…

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